Palestinian Media Watch
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) is an Israel-based media watchdog organization. Established by Itamar Marcus in 1996, PMW monitors Palestinian Arabic media and schoolbooks.[1]
Palestinian Media Watch documents the "contradictions between the image the Palestinians present to the world in English and the messages to their own people in Arabic."[2] It documents incitement to anti-Jewish and anti-Israel violence on Palestinian media, distributing translations of Palestinian programs into English.[3] The Palestinian broadcasts have been described as "deeply shocking in their medieval-style bigotry towards, and open incitement to violence and murder of, Israelis and Jews." Since Palestinian television is "heavily" funded by the European Union, PMW translates and disseminates the broadcasts to make the European public aware of what kind of programs they are funding.[4]
PMW is credited with bringing the Hamas children's television program Tomorrow's Pioneers in which a Mickey Mouse-like character urges children to murder Jews to world attention.[5] On the other hand, PMW has been described by CounterPunch as "a well-known right-wing propaganda site".[6]
Itamar Marcus is director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Previously, "Marcus was a member of the Israeli delegation to the Tri-lateral [American, Israeli and Palestinian] Committee to Monitor Incitement, established under the Wye Accords."[7].
The organization is funded by the Michael Cherney Foundation.[8] In December 2010 PMW was banned from YouTube.[9] It was restored to Youtube in response to the "criticism and outrage" the removal provoked.[10]
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- ^ Demick, Barbara (20 July 2002). "'Martyrdom' Dreams Take Root Early in the West Bank". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/139988771.html?dids=139988771:139988771&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+20%2C+2002&author=DEMICK&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=THE+WORLD%3B+%27Martyrdom%27+Dreams+Take+Root+Early+in+the+West+Bank&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ "About PMW". pmw.org. http://www.pmw.org.il/. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ^ YouTube removes Israeli media watchdog’s channel, Ron Friedman, December 2-, 2010, Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=200177
- ^ http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6559409/censorship-on-youtube.thtml Censorship on YouTube, Melanie Phillips, Spectator, December 19, 2010,
- ^ http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=200160 YouTube gets it wrong on online hate, Andre Obler, December 19, 2010, Jerusalem Post.
- ^ "Hamas and the Missing Video". counterpunch.org. http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/02/23/hamas-and-the-missing-video/. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
- ^ "About PMW". pmw.org. http://www.pmw.org.il/about.html. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
- ^ [http://www.cherfund.org/english/antifascism/antifascism11.htm "Michael Cherney Foundation in Support of Palestinian Media Watch"]. cherfund.org/. http://www.cherfund.org/english/antifascism/antifascism11.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
- ^ Palestinian Media Watch videos banned from Y... JPost - Headlines
- ^ YouTube reactives Palestinian Media Watch channel, Jerusalem Post staff and Ron Friedman, December 20, 2010, Jerusalem Post, http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=200260.
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