Keshev - The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel

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Keshev - The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel is a non-governmental organization based in Jerusalem , Israel . It was founded in 1998 by academics, lawyers and activists under the direction of former journalist Yizhar Be'er, who has served as managing director ever since. In response to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin , the organization sees it as its task to protect and promote the fundamental democratic values ​​of Israel. Keshev has been running the “Media Monitoring” project since 2004, in which she analyzes Israeli reporting on the Middle East conflict and social minorities. The aim is to sensitize the media and to put a stop to recurring patterns such as prejudice, incitement and delegitimization of the conflicting parties.

David Grossman has been the honorary president of Keshev since 2004 . The chairman is the journalist Danny Rubinstein . Before him, from 2004 to 2007, the linguist and communication scientist Dr. Daniel Dor holds this office. Since its inception, the organization has published more than 40 studies on reporting by Israeli media. Keshev is financed exclusively through donations and is supported by the European Union , USAID and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , among others .

activities

From 1998 to 2004 Keshev dealt with the analysis of undemocratic groups in Israel. Her investigations and reports addressed, among other things, political pirate broadcasters and Jewish groups calling for violence or the construction of a third temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. From 2004 onwards, Keshev's “Media Monitoring” project focused on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and its media processing. In this context, Keshev examines the news of the three best-selling Israeli newspapers ( Jedi'ot Acharonot , Ma'ariv, and Haaretz ) with particular attention to the implications of their editing. The first study of the new project looked at the media dealing with Yasser Arafat's illness and death. Other reports dealt with reports on the withdrawal from Gaza and the political status of Jerusalem. In 2007 and 2009 studies were also published on the role of women in the Second Lebanon War and on ethnic minorities such as the Ethiopian Jews .

  • Keshev regularly hosts workshops for pupils, students and teachers in Arabic and Hebrew. The participants should be taught the basics of journalistic work and techniques of critical reading.
  • Keshev offers training for journalists to raise their awareness of unbalanced or distorted reporting and to convey alternative methods.
  • Part of Keshev's job is to confront media representatives with their research findings and to point out cases in which reports do not do justice to the complexity of a topic. Attempts are also made in personal conversations to develop alternative formulations and representations.

Cooperation with Palestinian Organizations

As part of "Media Monitoring", Keshev has been cooperating with Palestinian NGOs since 2004, which in turn investigate the reporting of the Palestinian media on the Middle East conflict. Until 2009, Keshev worked with “MIFTAH - The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy” . Together they published research results and teaching material in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Since May 2010, Keshev continued the project together with "IPCC - The International Peace & Cooperation Center" under the name "Press for Peace".

Web links

Official website of the organization

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Keshev website. Who We Are. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 14, 2010 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keshev.org.il
  2. ^ Keshev website. Board and Staff. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 14, 2010 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. An article by him in German in: A controversial figure: Hadj Amin al-Husseini , Mufti of Jerusalem. Aphorisma, Trier 1999 ISBN 9783865751096 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keshev.org.il
  3. ↑ a b c website of Keshev. Funding. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 14, 2010 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keshev.org.il
  4. ^ Partner of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 6, 2011 ; Retrieved October 12, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fes.org.il
  5. ^ Keshev website. Publications 1998-2003. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 14, 2010 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keshev.org.il
  6. ↑ Shiri Iram, Michal Har'El, Ofar Vlodavsky, Carmi Lecker, Shimri Zameret: "Disconnected - The Israeli Media's Coverage of the Gaza Disengagement". (PDF) Keshev, January 2006, archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English).
  7. ↑ Dr. Hagar Lahav: "Women, Media and Conflict - A Gendered View of Israeli Television Coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War". (PDF) (No longer available online.) Keshev, December 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.keshev.org.il  
  8. ^ Keshev website. Publications 2005-. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 14, 2010 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keshev.org.il
  9. ^ Miftah website. Media monitoring. Retrieved October 12, 2010 .
  10. ^ IPCC website. Press for Peace. Retrieved October 12, 2010 .