More Pallywood

Produced by Write On For Israel/San Francisco teen participants

“As Bay Area high school students, we encounter people who hold many preconceived notions of Israel. Some of our teachers openly condemn Israel for being an apartheid state and engaging in other monstrosities; fellow students speak of Israelis as murderers; and many peers refuse even to acknowledge Israel’s legitimacy as a state.

Therefore, my WOFI team chose to make our documentary about Israel’s public image and about how it is being demonized by falsified media in “Pallywood,” a widespread effort to present the Palestinians as hapless victims of Israeli aggression. While filming, we met people who gave us a great deal of insight into the topic and opened our minds to the dangers.

Today, most people trust the media to always tell the truth, even when it lies. Anti-Israel forces use the international media as a powerful channel to spread disinformation. By exposing the lies of Pallywood we want to put a spotlight on their malicious efforts. Our goal is to reveal the damage that’s been done to Israel’s image by Pallywood and
show Israel in a brighter light–because we feel that we must do our part to protect the only real democracy in the Middle East.”

 

 

Pallywood IV – Gaza Beach Tragedy

On September 6, 2006, an explosion on a Gaza beach killed a family. immediately and without any form of investigation, Palestinians and
MSM blamed Israel.  This “fact” was reinforced as the world media repeatedly  showed poor Huda Ghalia a young girl grieving wildly next to her dead family. What really happened? Apparently the family touched a Palestinian land mine, one of many that litter the Gaza beaches. What did the world media do with this?  A grotesque exploitation of grief that was used to further pollute Israel’s reputation to the international community

 

“Pallywood”

The term “Pallywood” 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.”

For those interested in an in-depth look into how propaganda is really produced and created, this is a must see.