Monitoring the media
Many PSC members and supporters are actively engaged in challenging bias and inaccurate reporting wherever they occur. They write letters to editors, which regularly appear in the national press, and take part in phone-ins.
You can help make a difference either through constructive criticism or by congratulating a balanced article.
Letters that are not published are monitored by editors to gauge the public’s response to various events and how they are reported.
For letter writing tips visit the Arab Media Watch website.
Links to English language websites specialising in Palestine and the Middle East
| Al-Ahram Weekly | Source of articles on Palestine and the Middle East region in general. Published in Cairo. |
| Al-Bawaba | Middle East news portal |
| Al-Jazeera | The popular Arab satellite TV channel provides unbiased coverage of events in the Middle East and the rest of the world. |
| Arab Media Watch | Striving for objective British coverage of Arab issues, be they political, economic, cultural or social. |
| Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) | Analysis of events in Palestine in English and Arabic |
| BBC Middle East News | page of the BBC for news and events in the Middle East. |
| Electronic Intifada | Committed to comprehensive public education on the question of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| Haaretz | An independent daily Israeli newspaper with a broadly liberal outlook in comparison to other Israeli media outlets |
| If Americans Knew | Aims to provide full and accurate information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US population |
| Imemc | International Middle East Media Centre. With Palestinian, Israeli and foreign journalists, seeks to establish itself as one of the main liberal, non-partisan online news sources in the coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict |
| Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre | Provides a wide range of services to journalists, researchers, international agencies, individuals and organisations interested in obtaining reliable information on the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Also have results of polls. |
| Ma'an News Agency | A Palestinian on-line news agency that publishes up-to-the-minute news in Arabic, English and Hebrew. |
| Palestine Chronicle | Independent online newspaper that provides daily news, commentary, features and book reviews on a variety of subjects, yet is largely focused on Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East as a whole. |
| Palestine Media Watch | Works to combat anti Palestinian bias in the US media |
| Palestine Monitor | Created by the Palestinian Non-Governmental Network (PNGO) and the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP), it seeks to redress the lack of a Palestinian narrative in the media by disseminating information about developments coming from Palestinian civil society. |
| Palestinian Information Centre | Aims to promote awareness about Palestine, the Palestinians and the Palestinian issue and to balance the often-distorted picture presented in the mainstream media. |
| Wafa | Palestinian News Agency |