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Pallywood is a pejorative epithet used used to label allegations of propaganda in video journalism to put Israel policies toward Palestinians 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 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 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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