Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: Israel & Palestine

http://www.PPPL.org

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics.

Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• MEF
• Media
• Education
• Literacy
• Critical
• Mass
• Industry
• Educational
• Sut
• Jhally
• Israel
• Palestine
• Gaza
• News
• Noam
• Chomsky

[weeks630]

illegel occupation, period, America and its allies have been funding it for years, this is the biggest threat to world peace, and in particuliar the USA not terroism..not "weopons of mass distruction" Zionism is, stop the occupation.

[jimbaba16]

not really, Mainstream media is biased bulcrap, and this video is tyring to show that, just because they say the total different thing than the mainstream media does not mean they are biased, its the truth, we know the media is bulcrap, over-reactions, and lies lies and more lies

[dill285]

This video is very misleading and untrue! Don't be fooled.

[sherhak]

both israel and their owned media failed eventually. israel was recently rated the most hated nation on earth next to north korea. it's the age of internet, and people see things for themselves without spin and filter. israel lost. american media has been cheapened worthless.

[sarkofuck]

@IBeatUpThugs

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah­a

[IBeatUpThugs]

How much more obvious does it need to be for you. Your phony victimhood bullshit is backwards.

Muslims have a long long history of exclusively persecution of others. They are historic and modern oppressors. Jews have a long history of persecution.

Muslims = racist, violent oppressors

Jews = persecuted minority just trying to live in the world with a small sliver of land not under racist domination by European or Islamic fascists

Try getting an education you'll begin to understand.

[IBeatUpThugs]

@muslimah7707 Right because you can't respond to anything I said logically. You're literally trying to argue that Muslims who own 99.8% of the middle east and billions of dollars of oil, are being oppressed by Jews who own 0.2%. And the Jews must give their 0.2% to the Muslims. And you're contradicting your own religion. Most hilarious of all you are blaming the corrupt Muslim dictators of the world on Jews. The same leaders who hate Jews you claim are zionist pawns. You're lost and brainwashed.

[muslimah7707]

@IBeatUpThugs

Do you have a life? I told you I'm not wasting my time with a retard like you. Your language is too cheap it just reflects negatively on you. Secondly, you went way beyond limits. Who are you to say anything offensive about God? you know that Allah means The God in Arabic, so YHWH and Allah are just two different words that mean God. Thirdly, I can respond to all of your wrong statements but again I'm not wasting my time. I just wanted to show you how retarded and lifeless you r.

[IBeatUpThugs]

@muslimah7707 LOL no shit you didn't give it to Jews Allah did like it says in the Quran. See once upon a time some Arab thugs wrote a book called the Quran, mostly by ripping off the Torah. So they copied the story of how God gave Israel to the Jews. That's why the Quran says Allah commanded the Jews to go into Israel, would cast them out twice and then return all the Jews worldwide to Israel permanently. No where in the Quran does it say Muslims own Israel. Face it ALLAH IS A ZIONIST! So ha!

[muslimah7707]

@jonathan107202

jealous much? since when did each religion adherents are supposed to have their own country? who said that you need to have a country?? just live like you've always lived? or is it too hard for people to tolerate you?

[muslimah7707]

@IBeatUpThugs

lol I just forgot to tell u that u sound too jealous. I don't recommend you bring up stuff like that in an argument. Besides, this doesnt give you a reason to occupy our land. We didn't give it to you so u can have it in the first place. face it, its not ur damn country.