Palestine Media Watch

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Palestine Media Watch (PMW) was a group started in October 2000 that watched how the U.S. mainstream media covered the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It pushed back against what it saw as anti-Palestinian or pro-Israel bias, mainly through letter-writing campaigns and by publishing analyses of media coverage. The founder, Ahmed Bouzid, said the group wanted to change the idea that Israelis are defending themselves and Palestinians are attacking, noting that when Israelis act, it’s often labeled as self-defense or a mistake. The PMW website has been inactive since around 2009. It was the subject of a PhD dissertation by Robert Lyle Handley of the University of Texas, Austin, titled "Palestine Media Watch and the U.S. News Media: Strategies for Change and Resistance."