Keshev's Report: "When Thy Enemy Falls Coverage of Arafat's Death in the Israeli Media"


	An elderly Palestinian man argues with an Israeli soldier to enter Jerusalem through a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Bethlehem


	Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian boy during clashes in the Old City of Jerusalem near the Lions Gate


	Palestinian policemen struggle with Palestinian youths as they start to remove dozens of stone throwers from the Karni border crossing with Israel to prevent serious clashes with Israeli soldiers

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Keshev's Report: "When Thy Enemy Falls Coverage of Arafat's Death in the Israeli Media"
By Keshev Summary This is the first report issued by Keshev in the project "Media Monitoring—Words Can Kill, Too". This unique project, carried out in coordination between Keshev, an Israeli organization, and Miftah, a Palestinian organization, examines media coverage on both sides of the conflict. The goal of the project is to change patterns of media coverage in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority that give expression to prejudice, incitement and defamation, misrepresentation, de-legitimization and dehumanization of the other side. This report examines coverage of Arafat's illness and death in three Israeli daily newspapers (Yediot Aharonot, Ma'ariv and Ha'aretz) and in the main television news editions (Channel 1, Channel 2 and Channel 10), from the first reports of his illness on October 25, 2004, until November 19, a few days after his burial. To view the full report as PDF(42 KB) Source: Keshev