Category: In the Media
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CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US
by cnnexposed.com CNN editors replaced all Palestinian quotations with quotes from the US and Israel in its story ‘U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel’s Gaza strikes’. The new, more prominent article begins with the exact same wording as the original, but all Palestinian remarks are gone. The two versions have identical first and second paragraphs:…
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Ma’ariv: “Forbidden by the High Court, Built by Construction Companies, Approved by State Prosecutor”
translated from the Hebrew orginal by Rann Bar-On The [Israeli] state prosecutor is singing from two hymn sheets: it submitted a document to the High Court condemning illegal construction in Modi’in Ilit, but is also asking to legalize it to ease the lives of residents. by Efrat Forsher, November 2nd Ignoring the High Court Despite…
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Haaretz: “Activists: Security forces fired live ammo at anti-fence protest”
by Itim, November 3rd Anti-fence activists on Friday claimed security forces fired live ammunition at them during a protest near the West Bank town of Bil’in, moderately wounding a French activist. Doctors at a Ramallah hospital who treated the man said his wounds were caused by a live bullet. An IDF spokesperson, however, denied the…
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Guardian: “Israeli barrier and settlement to leave West Bank village with nowhere to go”
from The Guardian, Monday 30th October. by Rory McCarthy in Wadi Fukin Land confiscation and pollution threaten future of ancient farming community From his rooftop, Mohammad Ibrahim can see from one end to the other of the narrow valley that contains the village of Wadi Fukin. Beyond houses bunched around the tall minaret of the…
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The Independent: “Music therapy: The pied piper of Balata”
by Donald Macintyre, 30th October The Palestinian children of the West Bank grow up amid the sounds of guns and bombs. But a project inspired by Professor Nigel Osborne is determined to help them listen to a different tune. Donald Macintyre reports The Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, and one of Britain’s foremost…