| Like most Americans, Alison Weir, the editor of a small-town
newspaper in California, knew very little about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, other than what she had gleaned from the evening news or
newspaper headlines. As a journalist, her attention was on issues much closer to home. Neither a Muslim nor a Jewish, she nevertheless became more curious about the topic of the Palestinian uprising. And as she researched it, she became increasingly suspicious that the American media were not telling us the whole story. Months later, she traveled to the occupied territories as an independent journalist to find out for herself what the U.S. media seemed to be omitting. Three months after returning from Palestine, Alison Weir quit her job and founded If Americans Knew, an organization dedicated to quantifying the ways in which the American media was misinforming the public about the conflict. Ms. Weir explains her group's methodology, analyzes the data, and reports on the key findings. -- Tags: 911, F, FS Alison Weir, FT If Americans Knew, Palestine-Israel conflict, Under reporting, Against Our Better Judgment -- Produced: 2006, Episode: AW-OTC, 28:06, Category: Education -- |
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org . This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact 911TV1@gmail.com for instructions. -- This PEGMedia Episode - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/20154/detail -- More 911TV Films On PEGMedia - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/showall/587/detail https://youtu.be/kZqC3UzFiHA -- More 911TV Films On YouTube: http://youtube.com/911TVorg -- 911TV’s Blog http://Blog.911tv.org -- 911TV's Website http://www.911TV.org -- |
Showing posts with label FT If Americans Knew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FT If Americans Knew. Show all posts
Thursday, March 14, 2013
•Alison Weir 2006 “Off the Charts”
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
•If Americans Knew 2007 "The Easiest Targets"
| Five women – Palestinian, American, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish –
tell stories of humiliation and harassment by Israeli border guards and
airport security officials. Israeli officials have been regularly
strip-searching children for decades, some of them American citizens. While organizations that focus on Israel-Palestine have long been aware that Israeli border officials regularly strip-search men and women, If Americans Knew appears to be the first organization that has specifically investigated the situation. In the course of its investigation on searches of women, If Americans Knew was astonished to learn that Israeli officials have also been strip-searching girls as young as seven and below. According to interviews with women in the United States, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli border officials periodically force Christian and Muslim females of all ages to remove their clothing and submit to searches. In some cases the children are then “felt” by Israeli officials. The strip searches appear to be illegal under numerous statutes. The Geneva Conventions, to which Israel is a signatory, prohibit: “Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment” and specifically emphasize: “Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honor...” Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child states: "No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy..." Since American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day, the Council for the National Interest, a Washington DC-based lobbying organization, is organizing a campaign to call on Congress to demand that Israel end these policies. -- |
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org . This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact 911TV1@gmail.com for instructions. -- This PEGMedia Episode - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/19927/detail -- More 911TV Films On PEGMedia - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/showall/587/detail -- Produced: 2007, Episode: AW-IAK-ET, 12:46, Category: Education -- View This Show On YouTube: https://youtu.be/y6FLhJodpN4 -- More 911TV Films On YouTube: http://youtube.com/911TVorg -- 911TV’s Blog http://Blog.911tv.org -- 911TV's Website http://www.911TV.org -- |
•If Americans Knew 2007 “Captured Prisoners” and “The Easiest Targets”
| “Captured Prisoners” Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. As the majority of those detained are male, the number of Palestinians detained forms approximately 40% of the total male Palestinian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Administrative detention, which is arrest without charge or trial, has been used as a form of collective punishment by the Israeli military against Palestinians, and is illegal in this form under international law. Under military regulations in force in the OPT, a child over the age of 16 is considered an adult, contrary to the defined age of a child as under 18 in the Convention of the Rights of the Child, to which Israel is a signatory. In practice, Palestinian children may be charged and sentenced in military courts beginning at the age of 12. “The Easiest Targets” The Israeli Policy Of Strip Searching Women And Children According to interviews with women in the United States, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli border officials periodically force Christian and Muslim females of all ages to remove their clothing and submit to searches. In some cases the children are then "felt" by Israeli officials. In the course of its investigation on searches of women, If Americans Knew was astonished to learn that Israeli officials have also been strip-searching girls as young as seven and below. Since American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day, the Council for the National Interest, a Washington DC-based lobbying organization, is organizing a campaign to call on Congress to demand that Israel end these policies. -- |
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org . This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact 911TV1@gmail.com for instructions. -- This PEGMedia Episode - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/20161/detail -- More 911TV Films On PEGMedia - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/showall/587/detail -- Produced: 2007, Episode: IAK-CP+TET, -- 28:08, Category: Education -- View This Show On YouTube: https://youtu.be/NNXOZ8sE2Gc -- More 911TV Films On YouTube: http://youtube.com/911TVorg -- 911TV’s Blog http://Blog.911tv.org -- 911TV's Website http://www.911TV.org -- |
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