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Revision as of 12:16, 8 January 2006 by Virago (talk | contribs) (reverted edit on restricted usage, split two run-on sentences, changed "film" to "video")(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Pallywood is a pejorative epithet used used by some opponents of the Palestinian cause to label allegations of propaganda in video journalism by Palestinian activists. It's alleged by these critics 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 Israeli-Palestinian conflict of winning the "media war" 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 Muhammad al-Durrah in September, 2000
- allegedly staged photographs following the battle of Jenin in 2002
- allegedly staged funeral processions and casualties
The term was coined by the American historian Richard Landes, who describes himself as a "pro-Israel leftist". 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 of alleged fakes in the raw footage from conflict submitted to news agencies is a hotly disputed subject. The impact of video propaganda on public perception in any conflict, in particular on readiness to unquestioningly accept casualty figures from either side, has significant political implications for the ways in which people not directly involved in the conflict perceive it.
See also
External links
- "Second Draft.org", website of Richard Landes with films and analysis from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- "Palestine: Information with Provenance", website of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign at UCC, with a database of material on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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