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Evidence regarding Issa Karake, Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners Affairs’ connections to terror, terrorists and terror financing. (Aug. 1, 2018)

"Here is the text of the statement by PA Government Spokesman Yusuf Al-Mahmoud... made available by the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch."

PA TV rebroadcast a translated feature story from Israeli TV about PMW and its international impact, as "proof" that PMW is running "propaganda campaigns against the Palestinian leadership." (July 20, 2018)

"For years now – as meticulously documented by Itamar Marcus and PMW – the PA has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly stipends to perpetrators of atrocities."

MP Avi Dichter, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: "Palestinian Media Watch provided us with authentic data that enabled productive and professional deliberations, nuances that are very difficult to achieve without precise data." (July 3, 2018)

"In a statement, [Foreign Minister] Bishop expressed concern that providing further aid would allow the PA to use the funds for activities that 'Australia would never support.'"

"Representatives of Palestinian Media Watch told the committee that during the week in which the legislation was postponed, the amount the PA gave terrorists and their families was more than 23 million shekels."

"Public Security minister: Palestinian Media Watch supplied evidence of his clear incitement to murder"

PMW submitted a complaint to Israeli police in March against Palestinian leader Jibril Rajoub for incitement to murder during the 2015 - 2016 Palestinian terror wave.

FIFA announced that following the complaint of the Israel Football Association it will be investigating violent statements by Jibril Rajoub. (June 14, 2018)

"Maurice Hirsch, current head of Legal Strategies for PMW, suggested that, if flexibility is necessary in order for the law it pass, any freezing of the deductions would require approval from the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee..."

Palestinian Media Watch has been working with the Knesset committee in all of its deliberations about this legislation. (June 11, 2018)

Trump’s lawyer Giuliani to PMW: “PMW is doing a great service in documenting [PA terror glorification] on such a large scale, and I congratulate them and hope that they continue.”

"According to Almagor, Rajoub appears in Israeli media outlets as a supporter of peace, but Palestinian Media Watch released a video showing the PA official inciting terror."

In response, the pro-Israel monitoring group PMW has written to Gianni Infantino, with a copy to the Argentinians... accusing Rajoub and the PFA of trying to “continue in their attempts to politicize football."

"[A] damning report on Rajoub’s activities issued by the Israeli NGO PMW in 2016 emphasized his defiance of the 'fundamental Olympic goal to use sports as a bridge to peace' by naming sporting competitions in honor of Palestinian terrorists."

PMW was invited to the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense committee once again last week.

"Maurice Hirsch, current head of Legal Strategies for Palestinian Media Watch, also argued that the Defense Ministry bill would be ineffective."

Itamar Marcus, founder of PMW, an Israeli nongovernmental organization (NGO) that monitors payments made by the P.A. to terrorists and their families told JNS that “the waiver makes the law completely ineffective.”

Following PMW's report, 14 members of US Congress sent a letter to the Secretary of State citing the documentation in PMW's report, and concluding: "... we urge you to immediately suspend all aid payments to the Palestinian Authority." (May 3, 2018)

"Much of the work to uncover the advanced payment schemes and to inform government officials in Israel, the US and in the EU has been organized and researched by Palestinian Media Watch."

The following is PMW's report, prepared for the US Secretary of State, which shows that the PA has failed to implement the conditions set in the Taylor Force Act. (April 23, 2018)

"Even PA President Abbas’ senior advisor and Chief Sharia Judge says that Hamas is intentionally sending Palestinians in Gaza to go and die... via @palwatch."

US and Israeli leaders have responded to PMW's report, released yesterday, with calls to cut funding to the PA. (March 29, 2018)

US and Israeli leaders have responded to PMW's report with calls to cut funding to the PA.