Category: In the Media

  • Internet users paid to spread Israeli propaganda

    Jonathan Cook | Electronic Intifada 22 July 2009 The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback and comment sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitter and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be…

  • Israeli PM says West Bank barrier there to stay

    AFP 22 July 2009 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank would not be pulled down. “I hear today people who say that because the situation is calm in the West Bank we can dismantle the security barrier, but it is in fact because of…

  • 1948 no catastrophe says Israel, as term nakba banned from Arab children’s textbooks

    Ian Black | The Guardian 22 July 2009 Israel’s education ministry has ordered the removal of the word nakba – Arabic for the “catastrophe” of the 1948 war – from a school textbook for young Arab children, it has been announced. The decision – which will alter books aimed at eight- and nine-year-old Arab pupils…