UK channel ITV’s World Wide Web review series, The Web Review, reviewed the Electronic Intifada and gave it a rating of 10/10, describing our site as “compelling [and] intelligent”, and concluding that EI is “a democratic bombshell, a fascinating look between and behind the lines.” The presenters asserted, “this collection of news clippings, video and audio streams presents some intelligent and forceful arguments about how information from the Palestinian side of the divide is filtered.” Read more about ITV's The Web Review gives EI site "10/10"!
Ali Abunimah and Benjamin J Doherty14 December 2002
In a letter in EI’s Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty expose the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences excuse for keeping Palestine out of the Oscars as nonsense. The Academy said that entering countries must be members of the United Nations. But, the record shows that the Oscars accept entries from regions not recognized by the UN all the time. Read more about EI letter about Palestine's Oscars' exclusion in The Toronto Star
Following the publication of EI’s investigative piece “Israel falsely claims ‘massacre’ of ‘worshippers’ in Hebron” (16 November 2002), EI’s Ali Abunimah and Nigel Parry spoke with Stefan Christoff on CKUT Radio Montreal about the events. Listen to or download an mp3 audio file of the program here. Read more about EI on CKUT Radio Montreal
EI’s Ali Abunimah was a recent panelist on the C-Span discussion “Close Up”. The discussion covered Palestine-Israel, the expected war against Iraq, and the US “war on terrorism.” Read more about EI's Ali Abunimah to appear on C-SPAN
“Uncle Sam gets hip with a new radio station that mixes pop music with Arabic newscasts. Some question its chance of success. In the Arab world, Uncle Sam is often viewed as a meddling tyrant or arrogant superpower,” writes Susan Taylor Martin in the St. Petersburg Times’.EI’s Ali Abunimah is among those she interviews about what they make of it all. Read more about U.S. aims pop music at Arab world
Ran HaCohen’s 30 September 2002 column on AntiWar.com looks behind the veneer of Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz’s reputation as a liberal publication at some surprising realities. Read more about Looking Behind Ha'aretz's Liberal Image
Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on Australian televisions “Lateline” programme, just two weeks into the second Palestini5{ dismisses the violence as “a lot of attention being paid to very few deaths,” even as Abunimah points out that over one hundred Palestinians had already been killed and three thousand injured by the Israeli army, mostly unarmed demonstrators. Read more about Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on Australian TV's "Lateline"
EI’s Ali Abunimah and Joan Mauer, communications director of Radio Sawa, discuss the new US government sponsored effort to win the hearts and minds of the Arab world on the BBC World Service’s outlook. Read the transcript. Read more about Ali Abunimah discusses Radio Sawa on the BBC World Service
