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Pallywood (a portmanteau of "Palestinian" and "Hollywood") is a neologism used to refer to news events alleged to have been staged by Palestinian and other cameramen to portray Israel in an unfavorable light.[1][2][3] A portmanteau (IPA pronunciation: RP, US) is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... ... A neologism (Greek νεολογισμός [neologismos], from νέος [neos] new + λόγος [logos] word, speech, discourse + suffix -ισμός [-ismos] -ism) is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) — often to apply to new concepts, to synthesize pre-existing concepts, or to make older terminology sound more contemporary. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ...

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Origin of the term

Pallywood, According to Palestinian Sources... an online documentary by Richard Landes.
Pallywood, According to Palestinian Sources... an online documentary by Richard Landes.[4]

The word "Pallywood" appeared in a Usenet forum debate in 2002,[5] but Professor Richard Landes of Boston University is credited with having given the term currency in 2005, with his 18-minute documentary Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources.[4](VIDEO) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Richard Landes is an American historian and author. ... Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. ... Richard Landes is an American historian and author. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ...


In his documentary, Landes shows Arab-Israeli conflict-related footage, mostly taken by freelance Palestinian video journalists but utilising different camera angles to those which were broadcast by the mass media. He argues that Palestinian video journalists have staged scenes for propaganda purposes to create bias against Israel by presenting the Palestinians as helpless victims of Israeli aggression.[6] He believes that what he describes as systematic media manipulation (which he dubs "Pallywood") dates back to at least the 1982 Lebanon War, and argues that broadcasters are too uncritical of the bona fides of Palestinian freelance footage.[7]. Combatants Arab nations Israel Arab-Israeli conflict series History of the Arab-Israeli conflict Views of the Arab-Israeli conflict International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics Participants Israeli-Palestinian conflict · Israel-Lebanon conflict · Arab League · Soviet Union / Russia · Israel and the United... It has been suggested that Mass wire media be merged into this article or section. ... Combatants Israel South Lebanon Army LF (nominally neutral) PLO Syria Amal (switched sides) LCP Commanders Menachem Begin (Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon, (Ministry of Defence) Rafael Eitan, (CoS) Yasser Arafat Strength Israel: 76,000 troops 800 tanks 1,500 APCs 634 aircraft Syria: 22,000 troops 352 tanks 300 APCs 450...


Use of the term

The term has been used by bloggers, particularly during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict where assertions of media manipulation were made.[8] For some time during that conflict, it was also called "Hizbollywood". Combatants Hezbollah Amal LCP  Israel Commanders Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary General of Hezbollah) Imad Mughniyeh (Commander of Hezbollahs armed wing)[5] Dan Halutz (CoS) Moshe Kaplinsky[12] Udi Adam (Regional) Strength 600-1,000 active fighters 3,000-10,000 reservists[6] 30,000 ground troops (plus IAF & ISC)[13... The 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict photographs controversies refers to allegations that some instances of photojournalism from the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict misrepresented scenes of death and destruction in Lebanon caused by Israeli air attacks. ...


Political commentator David Frum has described Landes' work as an exposé of political propaganda, arguing that the footage Landes has compiled reveals "a startling series of faked funerals, staged gun battles, and professional weeping grandmothers. They dub the Palestinian propaganda complex, 'Pallywood,' and ask hard questions about the readiness — eagerness — of much of the world media to be deceived."[9] David J. Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first insider book about the Bush presidency. ...


Israel's right-wing religious-nationalist[10] broadcaster Arutz Sheva stated in 2006 that "Pallywood" is becoming a "household word," along with "infotainment," to refer to media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict.[11] The Mackenzie Institute, a Canadian think tank, has written that given "a long history of posing for the cameras...the cynical "Pallywood" nickname from once-deceived journalists for PA news services becomes understandable." [12] Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement, a branch of which is also called Mizrachi, is an ideology that claims to combine Zionism and Judaism, to base Zionism on the principles of Jewish religion and heritage. ... Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio is a right wing Israeli radio station. ... Combatants Arab nations Israel Arab-Israeli conflict series History of the Arab-Israeli conflict Views of the Arab-Israeli conflict International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics Participants Israeli-Palestinian conflict · Israel-Lebanon conflict · Arab League · Soviet Union / Russia · Israel and the United... The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda is a think tank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... This article is about the institution. ...


Media in the Gaza Strip

German journalist Thorsten Schmitz writes that the world's large news organizations, CNN and ABC News, and news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press, work almost exclusively with Palestinian cameramen when reporting from the Gaza Strip.[13] Working as a cameraman for the Western media is regarded as one of the most lucrative jobs in the Palestinian areas, Schmitz writes, with some cameramen in the area earning up to $250 U.S. per day, as much as some Palestinian families might earn in six months. Schmitz states that the images intended to portray suffering in Gaza and broadcast by the international media are produced primarily by Palestinians. [13] Richard Landes has argued that the mainstream media are too quick to accept this freelance footage.[7] The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... ABC News Special Report ident, circa 2006 ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. ... Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pron. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...


Alleged examples

Muhammad al-Durrah

Muhammad al-Durrah, a 12-year-old Palestinian, was widely reported to have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on September 30, 2000 at the beginning of the Second Intifada. The shooting was recorded by a local freelance cameraman and the footage became internationally famous. In Pallywood, Richard Landes questions the authenticity of the footage and disputes whether al-Durrah was killed by Palestinian gunfire or was killed at all[14] - a hypothesis that a number of other commentators have also supported,[15][16][17][3] but which has been rejected by French Courts in a libel case against one such commentator.[1] Muhammad al-Durrah and his father Jamal before the reported shooting on September 30, 2000. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see al-Aqsa (disambiguation). ...


Other events

Landes also describes the Battle of Jenin in 2002 [6] as an instance in which "Pallywood" footage has been shown, and Schmitz has made similar arguments regarding an Israeli rocket attack on June 13, 2006 on a car carrying members of Islamic Jihad.[13] Combatants  Israel IDF Fatah (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Tanzim) Hamas Image:Flag of PIJ.gif Islamic Jihad Commanders Yedidia Yehuda [4] Mahmoud Tawallbe† Strength 1,000 200-250 Casualties 23 soldiers killed 52 killed (38 armed men, 14 civilians according to IDF; 30 militants, 22 civilians according to HRW) 685... is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Islamic Jihad (Arabic: ‎, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a terrorist Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus. ...


See also

The 2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies refers to several instances of photojournalism from the 2006 Lebanon War that misrepresented or allegedly misrepresented, scenes of death and destruction in Lebanon caused by Israeli air attacks. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict photographs controversies. ... Journalistic Fraud book cover Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted is a book by Bob Kohn with a thesis similar to that of Bernard Goldbergs Bias. ... The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being pursued not only in the cities, towns, and countryside of Israel and the occupied territories of West Bank and the Gaza Strip with bombs and bullets, it is also a media battle being waged on television and in newspapers and magazines. ... Ouze Merham is a fictitious character, made out to be a general in the Israeli Defense Forces, who allegedly interviewed Ariel Sharon in 1956. ...

Notes

  1. ^ Carvajal, Doreen. "The mysteries and passions of an iconic video frame", International Herald Tribune, Monday, February 7, 2005.
  2. ^ Poller, Nidra. "Al-Dura: The Trial", PoliticsCentral, September 13, 2006.
  3. ^ a b Cambanis, Thanassis. "Some Shunning The Palestinian Hard Stance." The Boston Globe, September 6, 2005
  4. ^ a b Landes, Richard. Pallywood, According to Palestinian Sources (Windows Media Video), SecondDraft.org.
  5. ^ "French Election Upset", rec.arts.sf.fandom, May 15, 2002.
  6. ^ a b Landes, Richard. "Pallywood: History", SecondDraft.org.
  7. ^ a b Stevens, Chris. "A conspiracy theorist's paradise", The Daily Telegraph, April 14, 2007.
  8. ^ Zerbisias, Antonia. "And Now It's Reutersgate". Toronto Star, August 9, 2006.
  9. ^ Frum, David. "From Gaza, tragedy and propaganda". National Post, June 17, 2006.
  10. ^ Motti Regev, Edwin Seroussi. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, p. 238. University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0520236521
  11. ^ "There's Something About Qana," Arutz Sheva (Channel 7), Israel, August 3, 2006.
  12. ^ Lies, Damned Lies and Footage, The Mackenzie Institute, Newsletter July, 06.
  13. ^ a b c Schmitz, Thorsten. "Der Krieg der Bilder", Sueddeutsche Zeitung, June 16, 2006.
  14. ^ "Al-Durah: What happened?", Second Draft.
  15. ^ "Film Focus: HR in Hollywood and 'Pallywood'", Honestreporting.com.
  16. ^ Gelernter, David. "When pictures lie", Jewish World Review, 2003.
  17. ^ "Photo of Palestinian Boy Kindles Debate in France, The New York Times, February 7, 2005.

David J. Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first insider book about the Bush presidency. ... The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda is a think tank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

Further reading

  • "Second Draft.org", website of Richard Landes with films and analysis from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Landes, Richard. "Pallywood: According to Palestinian sources" (video).
  • Landes, Richard. "Al-Durah: What happened? (video).
  • "And now it's 'Reutersgate'," Toronto Star, August 9, 2006.
  • (German) "Wie Palästinenser manchmal die Wahrheit verbiegen", Israelnetz, June 19, 2006.
  • Cambanis, Thanassis. "Some Shunning the Palestinian Hard Stance," The Boston Globe, September 6, 2005.
  • Gordon, Philip H. & Tasponar, Omer. "Why France shouldn't legislate Turkey's past," The New Republic, October 30, 2006.
  • Kaplan, Lee. "Some PLO doctored photos: A visit to 'Pallywood'", Canada Free Press, May 28, 2006.
  • Kaplan, Lee. "Pallywood revisited: A new fake atrocity by the PLO", Canada Free Press, June 24, 2006.
  • (German) Von Wussow, Philipp. "Israelische Bomben auf Kana: Massaker oder Hisbollywood?", Telepolis, August 3, 2006.

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The Second Draft (142 words)
This documentary, a continuation of the earlier Pallywood, examines the circumstances surrounding the shooting of the explosive footage about Muhamed al Durah and his father Jamal at Netzarim Junction, September 30, 2000.
Ce documentaire, faisant suite à une première réalisation sur Pallywood, examine les circonstances du tournage explosif de la fusillade impliquant Mohammed al Dura et son père Jamal, au carrefour de Netzarim, le 30 septembre 2000.
Pallywood, "According to Palestinian Sources..." a film by Richard Landes.
The Second Draft (381 words)
But because we feel that the Israelis are not alone in suffering from this particular debacle, we hope that Palestinians and other Arabs, as well as fair-minded and sincerely concerned outsiders will join us in trying to sort out the widespread damage these continuing media errors cause to all involved.
In addition to courses on medieval history, he offers courses in "Communications Revolutions from Language to Cyberspace", "Europe and the Millennium," and "Honor-Shame Cultures, Middle Ages, Modern World." He is completing a book entitled Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience.
It was as part of his research on this subject that he came upon the Pallywood tapes.
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