Itamar Marcus is a researcher and the founder and director of
Palestinian Media Watch
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW; ) is an Israel-based nongovernmental organization and media watchdog group. Founded in 1996 by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch documents cases of incitement in Palestinian media. It describes itself as "a ...
,
[Brown, 2003, p. 296.] which studies
Palestinian
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society by monitoring and analyzing the
Palestinian Authority (PA) through its media and schoolbooks.
His work on textbooks led
Benyamin Netanyahu
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to appoint Marcus to represent his country in the negotiations with the Palestinians on incitement in the Trilateral Anti-Incitement Committee (Israeli–Palestinian–American) in his capacity as Director of Research for the
Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMP), where he served from 1998 to 2000.
[
As Director of Research for CMP, Marcus wrote reports on PA, Syrian and ]Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
ian schoolbooks. CMP reportedly broke its link with Marcus stemming from criticisms stemming from disparities in CMP's analysis of Israeli and Palestinian textbooks. "Incendiary quotations are explained, analyzed, and contextualized in the report on Israeli books; they are listed with only brief and sensationalist explanations in the reports on Palestinian books. In short, the center is fair, balanced and understanding toward Israeli textbooks but tendentious on Palestinian books." In February 2007, together with then Senator Hillary Clinton
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he released a report on the newest PA schoolbooks at a press conference in Washington.
Marcus testified before the Education Subcommittee of the US Senate
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The composition and po ...
Committee on Allocations, documenting the Palestinian Authority's indoctrination of children to seek death as Shahids – Martyrs – for public relations purposes. He has also presented before members of Congress, and to members of Parliament in numerous countries including, the European Union
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, United Kingdom
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, France
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, Canada
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, and Australia, and has lectured in universities and conferences worldwide.
Marcus is a featured source for the documentary '' Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West''.
Marcus is a former vice president of the Central Fund of Israel, which won the Jerusalem Prize for Volunteerism. Originally from New York City
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, he now lives in the Israeli settlement of Efrat
Efrat ( he, אֶפְרָת), or previously officially Efrata ( he, אֶפְרָתָה), is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, established in 1983 in the Judean Mountains. Efrat is located south of Jerusalem, between Bethlehem and Hebron, ...
in the West Bank
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.[Monheit & Cantor, 2004, p. 69.]
Notes
Bibliography
*Brown, Nathan J. (2003). ''Palestinian politics after the Oslo accords: resuming Arab Palestine''. University of California Press.
*Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee (2007). ''The EU and the Middle East Peace process: 26th report of session 2006–07, Vol. 2: Evidence''. HMSO. 9780104011225
*Monheit, Alan C. & Cantor Joel C. (2004). ''State health insurance market reform: toward inclusive and sustainable health insurance markets''. Routledge.
External reference
Palestinian Media Watch website
1953 births
20th-century American Jews
American Zionists
Living people
Israeli writers
Israeli settlers
Activists from New York City
People from Jerusalem
American emigrants to Israel
21st-century American Jews
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