PA spokesman at media conference: “it is important the Palestinian media be clean of a discourse of hate and violence… as the world is monitoring what is published in our Palestinian media outlets”

Headline: "Ramallah: The opening of the Violence in the Palestinian Media Discourse Conference"

"The Violence in the Palestinian Media Discourse and Its Impact on the Situation, the Solution, and Civilian Peace Conference opened yesterday [April 24, 2019] in Ramallah, under the auspices of [PA] Prime Minister Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, organized by the Palestinian [PA] Police, and in cooperation with the [PA] Ministry of Information, the [Palestinian] Journalists' Syndicate, and the Geneva Center for the [Democratic] Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) …

[PA] Government [Ministry of] Information Spokesman Dr. Ibrahim Melhem gave a speech on behalf of Prime Minister Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, in which he emphasized that it is important the Palestinian media be clean of a discourse of hate and violence now, as the world is monitoring what is published in our Palestinian media outlets and our media discourse, and is not monitoring the diplomatic activity…

Head of the Journalists' Syndicate Nasser Abu Bakr called to act to assemble or establish a Palestinian media alignment whose goal is to deal with the discourse of hate and violence in the media. He noted that Israel is using its media in order to incite against [the Palestinians] through the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs that uses all of the media outlets that are hostile to our cause and to the PA, because the Israeli entity has been depending on the media since the Zionist Congress in Basel, as the Israelis control the global media."