Palestinian Media Watch

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Founded in 1996, Palestinian Media Watch is an Israeli research institute that studies Palestinian society from a broad range of perspectives by monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. PMW’s major focus is on the messages that the Palestinian leaders, from the Palestinian Authority, Fatah and Hamas, send to the population through the broad range of institutions and infrastructures they control.

PMW’s many reports and studies on Palestinian summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, crossword puzzles, religious ideology, women and mothers, children's music videos and the PA’s indoctrination of adults and children to seek Shahada (Martyrdom), have had significant impact on the way the world sees the Palestinians. PMW has presented its findings before members of US Congress and to members of Parliament in numerous countries, including the European Union, Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Canada and Australia, and has lectured at universities and conferences world wide.

PMW material has been presented before the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US Congress and the US Senate Appropriations Committee. In addition, PMW reports regularly on how foreign aid is misused by the PA for terror promotion. These reports have led to changes in legislation and funding procedures. Through its bulletins and reports, PMW continues to give the world a precise understanding of the reality of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Media Watch documents the "contradictions between the image the Palestinians present to the world in English and the messages to their own people in Arabic."^[1] It documents incitement to anti-Jewish and anti-Israel violence on Palestinian media, distributing translations of Palestinian programs into English.^[2] The Palestinian broadcasts have been described as "deeply shocking in their medieval-style bigotry towards, and open incitement to violence and murder of, Israelis and Jews." Since Palestinian television is "heavily" funded by the European Union, PMW translates and disseminates the broadcasts to make the European public aware of what kind of programs they are funding.^[3]

PMW is credited with bringing the Hamas children's television program Tomorrow's Pioneers in which a Mickey Mouse-like character urges children to murder Jews to world attention.^[4] On the other hand, PMW has been described by CounterPunch as "a well-known right-wing propaganda site".^[5]

Itamar Marcus is director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Previously, "Marcus was a member of the Israeli delegation to the Tri-lateral [American, Israeli and Palestinian] Committee to Monitor Incitement, established under the Wye Accords.".^[6]

In December 2010 PMW was banned from YouTube.^[7] It was restored to YouTube in response to the "criticism and outrage" the removal provoked.^[8]

See also

• Middle East Media Research Institute‎
• Al-Aqsa TV
• Tomorrow's Pioneers

References

External links

• PMW Official Website
• PMW YouTube Channel
• Power Base entry on PMW