Palestinian Media Watch

Instead of "Israel" say "the Israeli colonialist occupation" - on PA TV

Sat, 8 Sep 2012

Transcript: Host: "Let's look at some terms, which in most cases, journalists mistakenly use in their reports and articles." [List of 'wrong' terms with the 'correct' forms that should be used is shown on screen:] [Wrong term:] "Negotiations are the only way" -- [correct term:] "Negotiations are o

PA narrative: All of Israel is "occupied" land

Tue, 15 May 2012

PA TV host teaches Palestinian children that the Galilee in northern Israel is "occupied land." (May 15, 2012)

PA TV songs promote violence against Israel

Sun, 13 May 2012

One song calls for building the Palestinian state "with the Martyr's blood, with gunfire" and another anticipates using "the rifle" to attack Israel. (May 13, 2012)

The PA, unlike Israel, has failed to work toward peace

Thu, 10 May 2012

"For his part, Abbas is incapable, or worse, unwilling, to prepare his people for peace. Official Palestinian Authority maps of “Palestine” include all of Israel. Abbas rejects three millennia of Jewish history in Jerusalem, only days ago saying Israel seeks to “create an artificial heritage with a Jewish spirit at the expense of its true and authentic [identity] as an Arab, Islamic and Christian city,” reports the Palestinian Media Watch."

Mahmoud Abbas: Jerusalem only has Islamic and Christian history

Thu, 10 May 2012

Abbas accuses Israel of "judaizing" and stealing Jerusalem's "Islamic-Christian history." (May 10, 2012)

PA TV teaches children to make political map that turns all of Israel into “Palestine”

Wed, 9 May 2012

Kids are shown how to cut out the map of "Palestine" and to cover Israel with the colors of the Palestinian flag. (May 9, 2012)

PMW director Itamar Marcus to speak in NY this week

Tue, 8 May 2012

Topic: The PA leadership and how its use of culture, education and media undermines the chances for peace. (May 8, 2012)

Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi again presented as role model for youth

Mon, 7 May 2012

PLO-sponsored sports tournament for youth includes a team named after Dalal Mughrabi (May 7, 2012)

Egyptian song on PA TV calls to attack Israel - "the snake's head"

Thu, 3 May 2012

Egyptian song on PA TV calls to attack Israel - "the snake's head"

Thu, 3 May 2012

"Oh Palestinians, [the Israeli] with the rifle shot you,
the Zionists are killing your doves in your sacred area.
Oh Palestinians, I want to go and be with you.
Fire is in my hands, and with you, attack the snake's head (Israel).
Oh Palestinians, the revolution is certain,
with the rifle we will impose our new life.
Oh Palestinians, the revolution is certain
with the rifle we will impose our new life."
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Note: This song originally aired on Aug. 14, 2011 and was rebroadcast on Jan. 20, March 26, 27, and May 3, 2012.

PLO-sponsored sports tournament for youth includes a team named after terrorist Mughrabi

Wed, 2 May 2012

"The physical education department at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis completed the 12th educational [program] for its scouts team. It was held in cooperation with the university, and under the auspices and with the support of the [PLO's] Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, at the Martyr (Shahid) Salah Khalaf Center in Al-Fari'a, for 40 male and female scouts...
Participants were divided into four small groups, named for Martyrs: the Martyr Izz a-Din Al-Qassam group; the Martyr Abd Al-Rahim Mahmoud group; the Martyr Bajes Abu Atwan group; and the Martyr Dalal Mughrabi group."
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Note: The Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, which sponsored the following sports tournament, is a PLO body whose members were approved last year by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) - a founder of Fatah and head of the Black September terror group. Attacks he planned included the murder of two American diplomats, as well as the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Izz a-Din Al-Qassam - influential Islamic preacher in British Mandate Palestine during the 1930s, who led a Muslim terror group.
Abd Al-Rahim Mahmoud - poet who composed the "Song of the Martyr." He was killed in 1948 fighting against Israel.
Bajes Abu Atwan - killed fighting against Israel in the '70s.
Dalal Mughrabi - led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

PA celebrates Abu Jihad's terror and killing of civilians

Tue, 1 May 2012

The PA glorifies the arch-terrorist through TV documentaries, news articles and six sports events named after him. (May 1, 2012)

Commentator article criticizes British funding of PA incitement

Tue, 1 May 2012

"The [UK] Minister [of State] and his officials cannot be unaware that Palestinian TV often broadcasts programmes which lionise terrorism, which encourage and educate young Palestinians to believe that cities such as Haifa and Acre are Palestinian, and demonise Jews in general Israeli Jews in particular. Such programmes abound and are easily accessible thanks to the work of organisations such as MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch. Only last week, Palestinian Media Watch exposed a horrible example from Palestinian TV, showing a children’s programme in which the adult TV presenters shouted, 'Bravo!' as a small child recited a poem in which she described Israel as 'Satan with a tail.' This is a clear breach of the conditions under which UK taxpayers fund Palestinian TV."

Embroidered map of "Palestine" shows all of Israel covered in the Palestinian flag

Sun, 29 Apr 2012

This political map erasing Israel was broadcast during a PA TV report on an event for youth sponsored by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education. Above the map is the word "Palestine" and to the right of the map is the date "Nov. 15, 1988," the date that Yasser Arafat declared Palestinian st

PA TV portrays Israel as foreign colonial occupier, claims ancient Jewish history is Palestinian

Sun, 29 Apr 2012

The PA TV video shows a woman who apparently represents "ancient Palestinians" (or possibly Muslims) going through the history of the land - replacing the Jewish people's actual history. The woman is introduced in a peaceful scene feeding birds in a period predating the Roman conquest of Judea and d