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Why the ‘Pallywood’ myth endures
A lasting legacy of the Second Intifada is the pernicious idea that Palestinians cannot be trusted to narrate their experience of Israeli oppression.
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
October 15, 2020
Jerusalem Post took government money to publish anti-BDS special
The Strategic Affairs Ministry's funding of a Jerusalem Post supplement is part of a government-led campaign targeting the Palestinian rights movement.
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Itamar Benzaquen
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The Seventh Eye
October 4, 2020
How the IDF is tarnishing the name of the medic it killed in Gaza
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit published a video it claims shows Razan al-Najjar throwing a tear gas canister into an open field and professing to be a ‘human shield’ — as if that justifies her killing. “Razan al-Najjar is no angel of mercy,” tweeted IDF Arabic Spokesman Avichay Adraee on Thursday. Attached to Adraee’s defamatory tweet was an edited…
By
Yali (Yael) Marom
June 8, 2018
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When does propaganda go too far?
The Israeli army publishes a heavily edited video of a detained Palestinian man from Gaza being interrogated about Hamas tactics. The army won’t answer any questions about it. By Oren Ziv The Israeli army often claims that video clips published by B’Tselem and other human rights organizations in the occupied territories are mendaciously edited, and…
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Oren Ziv
May 28, 2018
Israeli body that accredits journalists honored for propaganda
The official Israeli government body that accredits journalists has just been honored by the country’s PR association for enhancing Israel’s image abroad. Anyone who values an independent and free press should be alarmed. The government bureau responsible for accrediting journalists in Israel was honored last month by Israel’s association of public relations professionals for its work…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
October 4, 2017
Pallywood: The dark matter of the Zionist universe
Two recent cases of Israeli troops caught murdering Palestinians demonstrate the power, and limitations, of an entire nation deciding to believe what it wants to believe, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. By Eishton They call it “Pallywood.” Like Dark Matter, it’s a non-observable phenomenon, derived from our need to settle the contradiction between the viewable…
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February 17, 2017
The making of a hasbara superstar, Israel’s new ambassador to the UK
For the past decade Mark Regev has become Israel’s preeminent government mouthpiece. Now, as the world prepares to mark 50 years of occupation, Netanyahu appoints a hasbara heavyweight to represent him in the UK. By Yoni Mendel I’m not sure Mark Regev is a name Israelis are too familiar with. But around the world he seems…
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April 26, 2016
Stop calling us ‘Israeli Arabs’
The phrase ‘Israeli Arabs’ is meant to divide us from the rest of the Palestinian people. Thankfully, more and more young Palestinian citizens are no longer scared to openly confront their own Pharaoh and reclaim their story. “So explain it to me again,” Amanda repeated. “How can it be that while Israel celebrates its independence, or…
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Rami Younis
April 9, 2015
Truth is the first casualty when war is declared
The recurring elements in the manipulation of public opinion and discourse in wartime also appeared during ‘Protective Edge.’ Shaked Spier brings you the Ten Truths, Ten Commandments and Ten Lies of war. By Shaked Spier The truth Several truths dominated the hegemonic discourse in Israel during and since “Protective Edge”: 1. Israel doesn’t want war,…
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Haokets
September 27, 2014
Propaganda wars: Searching for a narrative in Operation Protective Edge
No amount of Tweeting, tagging, posting or liking will save Gazans from an Israeli ground invasion. So why bother? By Corey Sherman Recent political upheavals in the Middle East tend to have a social media subplot, whether it’s how savvy youth use it to subvert harsh authority, or how states manipulate access to it so…
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July 17, 2014
The logic of the occupation
What we can learn from the arrest of a well-known Palestinian activist’s wife. Nariman Tamimi was due to stand trial today at Ofer Military Prison for a rare charge: violating a closed military zone order. Nariman was arrested in her own village during an unarmed protest, in which not even one stone was thrown. When…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 9, 2013
Omissions, half-truths, lies: Ambassador Oren in Foreign Policy
In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC and the U.S. territories. A response. When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Professor Michael Oren – a historian…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 10, 2012
Jewish Week op-ed makes (bad) case for Israel’s boycott law
Lisa Levi tries to defend the undefendable boycott law at The Jewish Week. After making the old case that the Israeli boycott law is anything like the French or the American (simply false claim, as any form of the current boycott movement is perfectly legal in the United States. In fact, a Knesset research report,…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 1, 2012
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