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Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Palestinian Media and Anti-Americanism: A Case Study
by Hillel Frisch
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Abstract
This article examines a case study of Palestinian media attitudes toward the United States by analyzing one typical week’s coverage by al-Hayat al-Jadida, the most "official" Palestinian daily. The author’s analysis shows that while articles relating to the U.S. overwhelmingly condemn its regional policies and usually only reprint foreign writers critical of U.S. policy, the newspaper’s anti-Americanism tends to be somewhat veiled and pales in comparison to treatment of Israel.
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Note *: Hillel Frisch is a senior lecturer in political studies and Middle East history at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of Countdown to Statehood: Palestinian State Formation in the West Bank and Gaza (State University of New York Press, 1998) and many articles on Palestinian and Arab politics in leading political science and area journals such as Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Strategic Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies and others. Back