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| "Pallywood" is a term racists use to discredit televised truths stemming from Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. | |||
| '''Pallywood''' is a pejorative ] used used to label allegations of ] in video journalism to put ] policies toward ]s in an unfavorable light. The epithet is based on allegations that events are staged by Palestinian cameramen and video teams, sometimes using equipment from Western news agencies, and the resulting footage sent on to those agencies. | |||
| This allegation reflects the importance for both sides in the ] of ] by providing journalists with imagery that presents only their side of the story in the conflict. | |||
| Examples include: | |||
| * allegations that riots and unrest that did not start until the press arrived | |||
| * alleged falsification of the death of ] in September, 2000 | |||
| * allegedly staged photographs following the ] in 2002 | |||
| * allegedly staged funeral processions and casualties | |||
| The term was coined by the American historian ], who describes himself as a . Landes produced a short video in 2005 asserting that this type of propaganda goes back at least to the war in Lebanon in 1982. | |||
| The extent and impact of such manipulated moving images is highly controversial and is part of a broader debate about media manipulation on either side of the conflict. | |||
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| ==External links== | |||
| * , website of ] with films and analysis from the ] | |||
| * , website of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign at UCC, with a database of material on the ] | |||
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"Pallywood" is a term racists use to discredit televised truths stemming from Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.