Where are the Palestinian Journalists in Israeli Media?

[Jefferson23]

While Palestinian citizens make up 20% of Israel's population they are only covered 2% on prime time news. Part of the reason why lies in who reports the news. - March 2, 2014

LIA TARACHANSKY, TRNN PRODUCER: Following Israel's drastic drop in ranking last year in the Reporters Without Borders' freedom of the press index, The Real News investigated why. The resulting report concluded that it was not so much Israel's Military Censor or official forms of silencing journalists, but it was in fact self-censorship of Israeli journalists that lay at the root of the problem.

In this second segment, we look at the Palestinian journalists in the Israeli press.

I'lam is a Nazareth-based media research center. In their recent report, they show that the Israeli media largely ignores the Palestinians, except in cases of crime and security. The report concluded that the Hebrew press in Israel was in desperate need of more Palestinian journalists.

Amal Jamal is the center's director and head researcher.

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TARACHANSKY: What percentage of Israeli journalists are Palestinian?

AMAL JAMAL, DIRECTOR, I'LAM MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: Very, very small. Very, very small. We are talking about around ten to 12 Israeli journalists in the entire Israeli media.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11542

[WhiteTara]

1. I would guess either dead or in prison.

Israelis for all their democracy don't like the Palestinian people at all.

[King_David]

2. Your well thought out informative post gives this forum "credibility"

Welcome to the forum , reminds me of
another poster.

Next we will be hearing about "apartheid picnics" and "circuses" etc etc

Keep these posts coming.

[RedstDem]

3. you've got to be kidding!

The only way they would get to report the news, is to say how great Israelis are.
Otherwise, nooo...

[King_David]

4. Khaled Abu Toameh

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Abu_Toameh

[Jefferson23]

5. Down as 1, thanks. n/t

[azurnoir]

6. a darling of the Gatestone Institute no less

right along side of Daniel Pipes, Robert Spence, Itamar Marcus, Anne Bayefsky......

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/

[Jefferson23]

7. Nice group.

[Scootaloo]

9. John Bolton's somewhere in there too

Goo goo gajoob

[Jefferson23]

11. Yep, he is there, doing his part for peace in the ME.

John R. Bolton
Peace Through Weakness?
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/

[King_David]

14. Do you think he's self hating?

Maybe Fisk and Falk and Berlin and Mondoweiss should explain this to the Palestinian people ? In case they don't get it?

[azurnoir]

17. nope just an opportunist n/t

[WatermelonRat]

8. Is this referring to Palestinians as in people from the West Bank/Gaza or Israeli Arabs?

If it's the former I'd believe it, but in the case of the latter I know that there is an Arabic news station and at least four national daily newspapers published in Arabic, and I'd assume that between them there'd be more than a dozen journalists, and that's not counting any ethnic Arabs that may be involved in the English, Hebrew, and Russian news media.

[Jefferson23]

10. Journalists in Israel (112th, -20) enjoy real freedom of expression despite the existence of

military censorship but the country fell in the index because of the Israeli military’s targeting of journalists in the Palestinian Territories.

http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html

snip* TARACHANSKY: What percentage of Israeli journalists are Palestinian?

AMAL JAMAL, DIRECTOR, I'LAM MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: Very, very small. Very, very small. We are talking about around ten to 12 Israeli journalists in the entire Israeli media.

[Dick Dastardly]

12. Israel has numerous Palestinian journalists in their media. There is wide range of media in

Hebrew, Arabic and English they work in. Many Israeli media outlets in fact also use local Palestinian reporters in Gaza and WB.

Maybe this guy needs to look elswhere to see where there is a problem.




Hamas bans Palestinian journalists from Israeli media co-operation
Hamas government in Gaza also orders its officials not to give interviews to Israeli press or television due to media 'hostility'

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The order, issued this week, said: "The government has decided to bar co-operation or work with Zionist media due to its hostility. The prohibition applies to all Palestinian reporters and journalists." It has also instructed its own government officials not to give interviews to Israeli press or television.

Since the Israeli government banned Israeli journalists from entering Gaza in 2006, citing security reasons, the Hebrew media has depended on local Palestinian or international journalists for reports from inside the enclave.

Matan Drori, the foreign news editor of Ma'ariv, which has had a Gaza-based Palestinian correspondent for more than five years, said Hamas's move was "very unfortunate".

"It is important for Israelis to understand the motivations and behaviour of the other side, and perhaps also as a way of building bridges for the future. It will be a major loss not to have an authentic voice from inside Gaza," he said.

Drori said Ma'ariv would be forced to rely on Facebook and Twitter for reports from inside the enclave, with fewer ways of verifying information.

Sami Ajrami, who has been Ma'ariv's correspondent in Gaza for the past 18 months, and filed dispatches for the paper during last month's eight-day conflict, said he was disappointed by the ban.

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Abeer Ayyoub, a 25-year-old journalist who has written for the Israeli paper Haaretz and for the Guardian, called on the Hamas government in Gaza to reconsider its ban.

"There are two sides to the conflict, and both sides should be covered," Ayyoub said. "The Israeli media will have no one in Gaza writing about what is going on. I was speaking up for Gaza in the Israeli media. I was telling Israelis what life is like here."

Amira Hass, an Israeli journalist for Haaretz who lived in Gaza for several years and now reports from the West Bank, said Hamas's real aim was "to control information that comes out of Gaza. This is not the end of the story. The next step will be to move against the foreign media."

The government media office in Gaza did not respond to a request for comment.

Hamas has cracked down on Palestinian journalists inside Gaza who have been critical of the de facto government. A report by Human Rights Watch last year said: "Journalists in the Gaza Strip have … faced arbitrary detention, assault, and other forms of harassment from the Hamas authorities." It gave examples of journalists being detained and assaulted by security forces, and media outlets being closed.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/27/hamas-bans-journalists-israeli-media

[Jefferson23]

13. So he is lying, according to you? And the Reporters without Borders is wrong as well?

[Mosby]

15. Federation of Arab Journalists visit condemned

A visit by a number of Arab journalists to the city of Ramallah has resulted in a surge of condemnation from Palestinian media institutions, which saw the move as a form of normalisation with the Israeli occupation. They stressed that Arab-Palestine solidarity movements must keep away from the umbrella of Zionism. Palestinian journalists need a lot of support and assistance and support for their causes, although not necessarily through visits and meetings.

The delegation of the Federation of Arab Journalists visited Ramallah in mid-November to discuss the differences between members of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate and the convergence of views between them so as to enhance their position in the face of Israeli aggression. The federation called recently for a meeting in the same city in April next year.

Despite accusations to the contrary, the federation stressed that its rules prohibit all forms of normalisation, professional and personal, with Israel. Indeed, they ban the establishment of any relations with Israeli media organisations and their representatives until the liberation of all occupied Arab territories. This was made clear in the decision of the General Assembly of the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate and other Arab news organisations on the issue of normalisation.


https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/8508-federation-of-arab-journalists-visit-condemned

[Jefferson23]

19. Are you claiming they are not allowed to take positions within the Israeli media?

[Mosby]

22. I don't really know

I thought the article was interesting and tied in with the OP a little.

[Mosby]

16. Journalism The Arab World Is Not Used To

Israel is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab journalists can still practice some form of real journalism without having to worry about their safety.

Over the past few years, several Arab media outlets have popped up in Israel, offering a type of journalism that the Arab world is not used to.

In Israel, they know, government "thugs" do not break the hands of cartoonists and photographers who dare to criticize the government. Nor does Israel arrest a journalist who post on Facebook a comment criticizing the president.

In Israel, a journalist has never been forced to go into hiding for reporting a story that the government did not like. But in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian journalists continue to be targeted by both Fatah and Hamas.

Israeli Arabs have three major weekly tabloids that hire professional and independent journalists and writers, and not propagandists. The three privately owned papers, Assenara, Kul Al Arab and Panorama, are popular among the Arab community largely because they do not hesitate to cover stories that are considered taboo in Arab society.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2649/journalism-arab-world

[Jefferson23]

20. The Reporters without Borders annual report vs the Gatestone Institute.

Take your pick of credible sources.

http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html

[King_David]

18. Looks like this whole OP has been discredited

back to the drawing board.

[azurnoir]

21. odd that you'd believe a Rightwing heavily GOP organization such as Gatestone would out weigh

Reporters without Borders and proclaim so on a progress Democratic website

[shira]

23. Not as odd as the fact that no Dems in Congress, Senate, including the POTUS support BDS...

...and label Israel apartheid or Yitzak Rabin as a racist POS, like you guys regularly do here.

So who's really out of the mainstream here?

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But here's the real kicker for you.

Khaled Abu Toameh is taken more seriously by American Dems than the goons you routinely quote from +972 and Maan.

Why do you think that is?

[King_David]

24. OP does not come from Gatestone site,

but it seems the article in the OP from whichever site it comes from is bogus.