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AUGUST, 2008
- Action
Alert: 24 August 2008 - major Washington Post reporter
refers to supporting Palestine as a flaw. Simple education
about Israeli multiple violations of international law might
help him understand the Palestinian point-of-view.
- Action Alert: 10 August 2008 - covers an array of articles ranging over a 3 week period
reporting on a range of crimes committed by Israel.
- Action
Alert: 3 August 2008 - focuses on bias in reporting on the bulldozer attacks in
Jerusalem - all articles except one do not give background information what E.Jerusalem
Palestinians are going through that might motivate such attacks.
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SEPTEMBER, 2008
- Action
Alert: September 23-29, 2008 - ... concerning a new violence-prone
Israeli settler movement, and trying to get the media to tell
the whole picture!
- Action
Alert: September 16-22, 2008 - ... with special focus on
supporting articles on the settlements, Israel's discriminatory
water policies, and Israel strangling the WB economy, and then
critiquing two articles that show Israel as a victim.
- Action
Alert: September 9-15, 2008 - ... with special focus on
supporting articles on illegality of Israeli settlements, hardship
of the occupation, and VP nominee Palin's illegal and undemocratic
policy directions.
Old Style Action Alerts
focusing on specific topics are listed below |
- Action
Alert: 6 September 2008 - this alert focuses on
sending support to the media for overall accurate reporting
concerning Israel's surge in settlement expansion in violation
of international law and agreements, with three important
exceptions.
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JUNE, 2008
- Action
Alert: 30 June 2008 - this Alert covers the bias in US reporting about the Israeli truce violations to the truce
between Hamas and Israel.
- Action
Alert: 22 June 2008 - describes the many articles that describe US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice protesting
Israel's refusal to halt settlement expansion.
- Action
Alert: 16 June 2008 - covers numbers of reviews of Adam Sandler's
latest film, "You Don't Mess With the Zohan", about an
Israeli commando who becomes a NYC hairdresser, and how it and
the reviews help perpetuate US public misunderstanding about the
conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people.
- Action
Alert: 7 June 2008 - discusses the growing attention to the one-state solution, especially in light of Israel
refusing to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank.
- Action
Alert: 1 June 2008 - focuses on two examples of Israeli collective punishment in Gaza - refusing
exit visas to scholarship students, and refusing supplies to the Gaza sewage system which has led to
pollution of the Mediterranean Sea, which hurts everyone.
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JULY, 2008
- Action
Alert: 30 July 2008 - critiques reporting on Israel's latest announcement of new
settlement plans, and provides resources for writing about illegality and international protest
against them.
- Action
Alert: 18 July 2008 - lists legal statutes and principles that support many of the positions
of the Palestinian point-of-view.
- Action
Alert: 8 July 2008 - this Alert discusses the principle of proportionality and the law covering the
legality of collective punishment, and how they apply to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian
people.
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| APRIL, 2008
- Action
Alert: 30 April 2008 - contains non-American resources describing Israeli settlement expansion that US
media needs to cover and tell the American public about.
- Action
Alert: 22 April 2008 - honors an op-ed by Ziad Asali which describes how settlement expansion and other
practices of the Israeli government and military negatively impact the Annapolis peace negotiations.
- Action
Alert: 18 April 2008 - focusing on the case of Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj of Barnard College, this alert
describes an example of how pro-Israel groups seek to censor with nefarious means academics who's work might make
Israel look bad.
- Action
Alert: 9 April 2008 - heralds an NPR piece broadcast at rush hour that criticized Israeli settlements.
- Action
Alert: 6 April 2008 - describes an Associated Press article that fails to fully describe how Israel refusing to halt
settlement expansion jeopardizes the peace talks begun in Annapolis.
- Action
Alert: 4 April 2008 - honors the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which publishes two articles within 4
days of each other describing home demolitions in the Negev and in E. Jerusalem.
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MAY, 2008
- Action
Alert: 31 May 2008 - encourages feedback to the Atlantic Monthly, which publishes a lengthy
article about the conflict with very little real understanding of what is going on.
- Action
Alert: 25 May 2008 - suggests feedback to the author about the principle of proportionality - that his efforts
at fairness are commendable but inaccurate because they do not take into consideration the disproportionate intensity of Israeli
abuses of Palestinian rights in the occupied territories.
- Action
Alert: 13 May 2008 - describes the legal arguments that refutes Israeli legal reasoning that they
are no longer responsible for the well-being of the residents of Gaza since the pull-out in 2005.
- Action
Alert: 6 May 2008 - describes a range of wire service articles that accurately describe Israeli
settlement expansion and how it is interfering with the Annapolis peace process.
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(C) Palestine Media Project, 2008
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