Media and Normalising Israeli Apartheid (Israeli Apartheid Week)

The Story of the “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” According to the Main Media in Israel

Yizhar Be’er Executive Director of Keshev - The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel, former executive director of B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and Haaretz correspondent for the Palestinian occupied territories during the first Palestinian Intifada.

Images of Palestinian Citizens in Israeli Media

Haneen Zoubi General Director of I’lam – Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel. Political and feminist activist, and contributor to various Arab newspapers on feminist-national emancipation, Israeli media policy and regulations.

European Media: Complicity and “Neutrality”

Dina Matar Lecturer in Arab media and International Political Communication at SOAS, and was a foreign correspondent and editor mostly covering the Middle East, Europe and Africa. She is co-editor and co-founder of the forthcoming “The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication” and is researching and writing a book on Palestinian collective memory.

Chair: Eyal Sivan Israeli Film-maker based in London. A Reader (Associate Professor) in Media at the School of Social Sciences at the University of East London (UEL). Producer, essayist and editor, and directed over ten full length political documentaries of which he received a number of prestigious awards, his films include: Aqabat Jaber-Passing Through (1987), Izkor-Salves of Memory 1990), The Specialist (1999), Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003) I Love You All (2004) Citizens K (2007).

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