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You are invited to review the op-ed articles, reports and press releases which reflect our criticism, as well as that of others, regarding instances of non-objective reporting, biased and unbalanced news presentation, the freedom of speech, the link between the media and the Israeli GSS, antisemitic/antireligious cartoons and violations of the journalism ethics code by Israel's electronic and written media.

	Italian Television apologized to the Palestinian Authority for screening the video of the lynching of the two Israeli soldiers at Ramallah (October 2000)
	1. Netzarim: the real story behind the tragic footage of the killed Palestinian boy Mohamed Ad-dura cowering behind his father. 2. Jerusalem Arabs remove victims, torch ambulances (October 2000)
Tuvia Grossman	If He's Beaten, He Must Be Palestinian The New York Times published a picture of an angry Israeli policeman and a badly-beaten and bloodied man, with the caption: "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." The Palestinian is actually Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago
Israel's Media Watch update report # 53 November 10, 2000	- Amnesty International slams PA's draconian press policy - CNN AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT - Narrowing of the broad band; concentration of power in the media - Committee to Protect Journalists - Blaming Sharon - Israeli "Posturing": The lead news story in today's New York Times - Jordan Press Association Expels Secretary General - Disney Bans R-Rated Movie Ads Before 9 P.M. on ABC Network - Spinning In His Grave? U.S. Media Silent As Leah Rabin Slams Barak
	The Media doesn't like the new advertising of Yesha [Judea, Samaria & Gaza] Council; Yediot Haacharonot: "A stunt of Yigal Amir in "Yesha" council propaganda !" - in Hebrew - (June 2000)
Israel's Media Watch update report # 46 May 28, 2000	- IMW News - Words of Wisdom - Media News (Israel and Other) - Leftist cultural and political elite has in Israel, when acts of Arab violence break out - Information and Disinformation Department of the Prime Minister's Office - Ehud Barak brokered an arms deal with China - The secular Israeli press & the "final agreement with Syria." - French judge orders Yahoo to pay damages on anti-Semitic charges - Sri Lankan Government shut down an opposition newspaper - US Court Voids Law Limiting Sex Channels on Cable TV - A Book Review
Israel's Media Watch update report # 39 April 7, 2000	- IMW News - Words of Wisdom - Media News (Israel and Other) - Kol Israel "Inyan Acher" ("Other Matter") radio program by Ms. Dalia Yairi, is extremely biased against the opposition, national right-wing. -"Ma Boer" (What's Burning), broadcast over the Army radio (Galatz) is also biased but not as strongly - Post-democracy: On the one hand, the media manufacture or distort news. On the other, certain groups cannot even gain a hearing for their views Channel 2's Nissim Mishal screened a film clip of four guys in the Safed Cemetery invoking the Angel of Death to expedite the departure of the pope; That clip was eagerly seized upon by the world media... Within two days, the police had arrested researcher Avishai Bar-Haim on suspicion of having staged the pulsa d'nura ceremony...
	The Vardi Report (2)) : "Maariv": Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) is one of the most corrupted public institution.(In Hebrew) Ha'aretz comment.(In Hebrew) Arutz 7: the high salaries at IBA (In Hebrew) (Feb. 2000)
	The Vardi Report: Israel Broadcasting Authority IBA) can not survive with the present administration and system of mangement. At the IBA systematic fictive supplementary work hoursare paid with the knowledge and acceptation of the management.(In Hebrew)-Globes Prof' Eli Pollak, IMW: The IBA belongs to the Public, not to the "Elites" (In Hebrew) (Feb. 2000)
<Cartoon 22>	"Danger !!! Kippot in Ness Tsiona - Beware" "Shas ... Parasites" - "Fear in town" (Feb. 2000)
The Radios in Paris	Dedicated to Dr. Eliakim Rubinstein, Attorney-General of Israel who devotes his energy to close the Free Radios - English, Francais, Hebrew (february 2000)

Rocks left unturned, By Ari Shavit, Haaretz (December 1998)
Imagine it was disclosed that an FBI agent admitted to very close and continuous ties with Lee Oswald, who had told him time after time that the president John F. Kennedyhad to be killed. [....] These exact questions, in Hebrew translation and adjusted to the circumstances of Rabin's murder, must be presented today to Israel's Shin Bet security service.

"The Israel Government Announces in Shock" Israel's Media Watch denounces the lack of journalistic ethics of M. Karpin's film in Channel 2 TV's "Uvda" Series (May, 1997).

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	Another Raid (1999) against Arutz 7 radio (4), December 1999 (English & Hebrew)
Israel's Media Watch update report # 22 (November 1999)	- Law Prof. Ruth Gavison criticizes the legal Israeli establishment; - Beinish - Raviv document, Prof' Eliav Shochatman - The assassination of PM Rabin and GSS.
	The Considerations, the Rules and Work Norms of the State Prosecution and GSS in Running Agents. Israel's Media Watch calls for State Comptroller review of GSS-Raviv-Eyal improprieties (in English and Hebrew ) November 1999
	Fake Oren - Raviv swearing-in case - The "secret document" (5) - Yes, There Was a Conspiracy By Israel Harel, Ha'aretz (Hebrew & English) November 1999
	Court authorizes the publication of the "secret document" on IBA journalist & former GSS agent Raviv (II) - November 1999
GSS agent A. Raviv	Court authorizes the publication of the "secret document" on IBA journalist & former GSS agent Raviv (I) - The full text of the protocol (Hebrew & English) November 1999 The full text of the protocol (Hebrew )

	Israel Media Watch: is the "secret document" potentially dangerous ? Website received life threats ! (English & Hebrew) (November 1999)
published in "Makor Rishon"	"All That You Read, Isn't Fit" - The Mobilized Partisanship in Israel's Media During the 1999 Election Campaign (in Hebrew) byYisrael Medad October 1999