Palestinian media

A Palestinian human rights activist is led to the Jerusalem District Court in handcuffs following his arrest Tuesday morning, January 20, 2016. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel arrests Palestinian journalist en route to int’l conference

Omar Nazzal, a well-known journalist in Ramallah, has been in custody since Saturday on terror charges, based on secret evidence. His lawyer says that his alleged contact with militants was an integral part of his job. Israel arrested a Palestinian journalist on Saturday while he was trying to leave the West Bank en route to…

By Haggai Matar April 25, 2016

Alla Badarna being pushed back by a soldier as an Israeli photographer is allowed to work without any hindrance. (Photo by Ayman Nubani)

Palestinian journalists say Israeli forces are targeting them

Palestinian photojournalists, and some Israelis too, say they are being deliberately attacked by soldiers, police and even regular people on the street. The rubber-coated bullets, pepper spray and being denied access on grounds of ethnicity are nothing new, yet veteran Palestinian photographers say something is different this time. By Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Following the…

By Activestills November 7, 2015

Medics and journalists succumb to pepper spray assault by a member of Israel's Border Police (credit: Fadi Arouri)

Why the Israeli and Palestinian media tell such different stories

As violence against Israeli Jews declines, the Israeli media has gone back to business as usual. Palestinian newspapers, on the other hand, are full of stories of death, arrests, and all-out war. For the past several weeks, during what the Israeli press has deemed a “wave of terror,” included stabbings and extrajudicial killings in the…

By Orly Noy November 4, 2015

Latest

Hadash Chairman Ayman Odeh. Odeh was elected to first place in the united Arab slate. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Interview: What Hamas’ media thinks of Israeli elections

How is the Palestinian media covering Israeli elections? What do they think of the Joint List? A media survey covering Palestinian outlets in Israel proper, the West Bank, Gaza and beyond. And an interview with the editor of Hamas’ official newspaper. According to the famous cliche, there is no better time for news than during…

By Rami Younis March 15, 2015

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech to released Palestinian prisoners, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 14. (Activestills.org)

Palestinian incitement: Genuine problem or right-wing dream?

It’s not uncommon to hear Israeli leaders accuse the Palestinian Authority and its media outlets of inciting to violence against Israelis and Jews. But is it actually true? A closer examination of the evidence reveals that the habitual blaming of the Palestinian Authority is not only mostly unfounded, it is the product of a direct…

By Haokets February 22, 2014

Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus (Photo: Mary Madigan/ CC 2.0)

Judge dismisses credibility of Palestinian Media Watch testimony

An Israeli district court judge metes out scathing criticism of Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus’s expert witness testimony on incitement in Palestinian media, in a civil case against the PA and its leaders. Marcus’s testimony, Judge Dalia Gano wrote, was incomplete, biased and unworthy of the title “expert witness testimony.” By Oren Persico / The…

By The Seventh Eye September 15, 2013

'Haaretz' newspaper (Photo: Hmbr/Wikimedia/CC)

A reluctant reader: ‘Haaretz,’ paywalls and liberal Zionism

One Palestinian journalist’s meditation on being forced to pay for Haaretz, the only paper he can rely on, but one that also espouses a nationalist ideology he cannot accept. ‘I’m fated to be a reluctant reader — and a reluctant citizen.’ By Hakim Bishara It’s morning and I desperately need the news. Where I live,…

By +972 Magazine April 29, 2013

Books (Mairav Zonszein)

Palestinian textbook case closed, but more trumped-up Israeli charges expected

This week’s publication of a U.S.-funded study cleared the Palestinians of charges that their schoolbooks ‘demonize’ Israel. This was not, however, the first hoop they’ve been made to jump through, and it won’t be the last. The Israeli and U.S. Jewish establishment reaction to the terrible news that the Palestinians don’t demonize Jews in their…

By Larry Derfner February 7, 2013