Pallywood, "According to
Palestinian Sources..." is a film, an online documentary video that was produced by Richard Landes, a professor from the Boston University . International news
media extract a few convincing instants of staged scenes - sight-bytes,
and present them as news. It presents specific instances of media manipulation.
The term "Pallywood" ( باليوود Bālīwūd; פאליווד), refers to the staging of scenes by Palestinian
journalists in order to present the Palestinians as hapless victims of
Israeli aggression. They are able to succeed in this endeavor in large
part due to the credulity and eagerness of the Western press to present
these images, which reinforce the image of the Palestinian David
struggling valiantly against the overpowering Israeli Goliath. Pallywood
has led to astonishing lapses in Western journalistic standards in
which badly staged scenes regularly appear on the news as "real events."
is a portmanteau of "Palestinian" and "Hollywood" (or "Bollywood") that used by the media watchdog
advocate to describe a media manipulation,
distortion and outright fraud by the Palestinians and other Arabs ...
designed to win the public relations war against Israel. The incidents
of the Muhammad al-Durrah tapes and the 2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies are notable events which have been cited as examples.
Landes shows in this movie an Arab-Israeli conflict-related footage that was taken mostly
by freelance Palestinian video journalists. He argues that systematic
media manipulation and argues that broadcasters are too uncritical of the veracity of Palestinian freelance footage.
He focuses in particular on the case of Muhammad al-Durrah, a 12-year-old Palestinian who was widely reported to have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on September, 2000. The shooting was filmed by a Palestinian freelance cameraman and aired on the France 2 television channel. It made worldwide headlines and the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces was heavily criticized internationally, severely damaging Israel's public standing on the world stage. Landes questions the authenticity of the footage and disputes whether
al-Durrah was killed at all, arguing that the entire incident was staged
by the Palestinians. This argument based on an incident earlier in the
day that shows that Palestinian cameramen, especially when
there are no Westerners around, engage in the systematic staging of
action scenes.
See how easy it is for the media to distort the truth!
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