Call for Interviews with Palestinian Witnesses

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 17th, 2008 at 7:57 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Ideas and Projects, Interviews, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

Hello,

I’m a graduate student with an interest in studying the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I believe it is the defining conflict of of modern Western/Muslim society. Right now I’m looking for Palestinians to interview who have first hand accounts of Israeli violence.

I agree that the media in the U.S. is extremely biased against Palestinians. I recently conducted a study on the news coverage of the July War and Operation Summer Rain in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Times. I used Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Propaganda Model as my theoretical framework. What I found confirmed their hypothesis: that discourse of the conflict in the U.S. news is extremely limited and tends to conform to elite opinion.

I have a deep affinity and complete empathy for Palestinians. I’m trying to organize a database of first hand accounts of Israeli violence. The questions I ask will take no longer than the person would like. I am contacting a range of Palestinian organizations and I used your organization’s website to help my study. I was wondering if you had anybody in mind who I could start a dialogue with.

Also, I want this database to continually evolve and I will add first hand accounts of violence from other “forgotten” people like the Native Americans, Kurds, Timorese, Basque, Roma, etc. Hopefully, this database will serve as an outlet for future research and promote understanding of the “other” in Western society.

Thanks,
Jeffrey Tischauser

dailyresister@yahoo.com

Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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