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Revision as of 00:41, 4 February 2008 by 194.8.209.29 (talk) (Landes opinion is that the boy is not killed and that the incident is staged. The old sentence sounded like he is doubting this.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Pallywood, a portmanteau of "Palestinian" and "Hollywood", is a controversial neologism that some pro-Israel advocates have used to refer to alleged instances of "media manipulation, distortion and outright fraud by the Palestinians ... designed to win the public relations war against Israel." It has been publicised by a campaign led in part by Boston University academic Richard Landes, who has produced an online documentary video called Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources, highlighting specific instances of alleged media manipulation.
Documentary video
In 2005, Professor Richard Landes of Boston University produced an 18-minute online documentary video called Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources. Landes and other pro-Israel advocates argue that the Israeli government is insufficiently robust in countering Palestinian accounts of events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In his video, Landes shows Arab-Israeli conflict-related footage that was taken mostly by freelance Palestinian video journalists. He argues that systematic media manipulation (which he dubs "Pallywood") dates back to at least the 1982 Lebanon War, and argues that broadcasters are too uncritical of the veracity of Palestinian freelance footage. He focuses in particular on the case of Muhammad al-Durrah, a 12-year-old Palestinian who was widely reported to have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on September 30 2000 at the beginning of the Second Intifada. The shooting was filmed by a Palestinian freelance cameraman and aired on the France 2 television channel with narration by the veteran French-Israeli journalist Charles Enderlin, who was not present at the incident. It made worldwide headlines and the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces was heavily criticized intenationally, severely damaging Israel's public standing on the world stage. Landes questions the authenticity of the footage and disputes whether al-Durrah was killed at all, arguing that the entire incident is staged by the Palestinians. He asserts that the incident shows that "Palestinian cameramen, especially when there are no Westerners around, engage in the systematic staging of action scenes."
Wider use of the term
Similar alllgations have been made by other media analysts, particularly after similar assertions of media manipulation (which some dubbed "Hizbollywood") were made during the 2006 Lebanon War.
The Mackenzie Institute, a Canadian defense and security think tank, has argued that given "a long history of posing for the cameras...the cynical "Pallywood" nickname from once-deceived journalists for news services becomes understandable."
See also
- Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- 2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies
- Journalistic fraud
- Ouze Merham
External links
- Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources... (WMV) by Richard Landes on SecondDraft.org (Official)
- Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources... (FLV) by Richard Landes on YouTube (Mirrored)
- History of Pallywood on SecondDraft.org.
References
- ^ "Caught in the Mohammad al-Dura crossfire", Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2007
- ^ Cambanis, Thanassis. "Some Shunning The Palestinian Hard Stance" The Boston Globe, September 6, 2005
- Landes, Richard. Pallywood, According to Palestinian Sources (Windows Media Video), SecondDraft.org. (youtube mirror)
- ^ Carvajal, Doreen. "The mysteries and passions of an iconic video frame", International Herald Tribune, Monday, February 7, 2005.
- Landes, Richard. "Pallywood: History", SecondDraft.org.
- "Al-Durah: What happened?", SecondDraft.org
- Zerbisias, Antonia. "And Now It's Reutersgate". Toronto Star, August 9, 2006.
- Gelernter, David. "When pictures lie", Jewish World Review, 2003.
- Photo of Palestinian Boy Kindles Debate in France, The New York Times, February 7, 2005.
- Frum, David. From Gaza, tragedy and propaganda. National Post, June 17, 2006.
- Lies, Damned Lies and Footage, The Mackenzie Institute, Newsletter July, 06.
Further reading
- "Second Draft.org", website of Richard Landes with films and analysis from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Landes, Richard. "Al-Durah: What happened? (video).
- "And now it's 'Reutersgate'," Toronto Star, August 9, 2006.
- Template:De icon "Wie Palästinenser manchmal die Wahrheit verbiegen", Israelnetz, June 19, 2006.
- Cambanis, Thanassis. "Some Shunning the Palestinian Hard Stance," The Boston Globe, September 6, 2005.
- Gordon, Philip H. & Tasponar, Omer. "Why France shouldn't legislate Turkey's past," The New Republic, October 30, 2006.
- Kaplan, Lee. "Some PLO doctored photos: A visit to 'Pallywood'", Canada Free Press, May 28, 2006.
- Kaplan, Lee. "Pallywood revisited: A new fake atrocity by the PLO", Canada Free Press, June 24, 2006.
- Template:De icon Von Wussow, Philipp. "Israelische Bomben auf Kana: Massaker oder Hisbollywood?", Telepolis, August 3, 2006.