Bad News from Israel

by Greg Philo, Mike (Glasgow University Media Group) Berry

Overview

Exposes major media bias in the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the impact this has on public opinion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745320618
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	07/22/2004
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.47(h) x (d)

About the Author

Greg Philo is a Professor at Glasgow University, and Research Director of the Glasgow Media Group. He is the author with Mike Berry of More Bad News from Israel (Pluto, 2011). Mike Berry is Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham and, with Greg Philo, is the author of Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories (Pluto, 2006) and Bad News from Israel (Pluto, 2004).

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Preface	viii
	Final Status Map	x
1	Histories of the Conflict	1
	Introduction	1
	Zionist Roots and the First Wave of Jewish Immigration into Palestine	2
	Theodor Herzl and the Emergence of Political Zionism	3
	The Second Wave of Jewish Immigration into Palestine	4
	The Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate	5
	American Politics and the Settlement of the Holocaust Survivors	13
	The End of the Mandate	16
	The United Nations Debates the Future of Palestine	17
	The Unofficial War	18
	The First Arab-Israeli War	20
	Post-War Negotiations: Peace Treaties, Borders and Refugees	22
	1956: The Suez Conflict	27
	1967: The Six Day War	29
	Resolution 242 and the War of Attrition	34
	Settlement Building and Economic Integration	36
	Military Occupation/Administration	41
	Nationalism and the Rise of the Opposition Movements	42
	1973: The October War	47
	Conflict in Lebanon	48
	Diplomacy and the Camp David Accords	52
	1982: The Invasion of Lebanon	54
	1987: The First Intifada	61
	The Beginning of the Oslo Process	67
	The Declaration of Principles	69
	The Cairo Agreement and Oslo II	72
	The Netanyahu Administration	76
	The Barak Administration	81
	The Camp David Final Status Talks	83
	The Sharon Administration	88
2	Content Studies	91
	Introduction	91
	Content Analysis: Methods	94
	Samples and Results	99
Sample 1	28 September to 16 October 2000	99
	Additional Content Samples: October-December 2001, March-April 2002	156
Sample 2	October-December 2001	160
Sample 3	March 2002	182
Sample 4	Jenin, April 2002	192
3	Audience Studies	200
	Introduction	200
	Samples and Method	200
	Focus Group Methods and Questions Asked	202
	Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches	204
	The Questionnaires	207
	Results	209
	Memories, Images and Associations	209
	Sources of Information Used	210
	Origins, History and Causes of the Conflict	212
	The News Writing Exercise	225
	Beliefs About Casualties	231
	Cultural Identification and Empathy	236
	Understanding and Interest in News	240
4	Why Does it Happen?	244
	Factors in Production	244
	Claims that the Media are Biased Against Israel	250
	The US Connection	252
5	Conclusion	257
Appendix 1	Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Student Groups	261
Appendix 2	Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Focus Groups	270
Appendix 3	Black Holes of History: Public Understanding and the Shaping of Our Past	276
	Notes	286
	References	300
	Index	305