The quality of both Media coverage of the Arab – Israeli conflict and research and debates on university campuses have been the object of extensive monitoring and research . In the latter regard , organizations like Campus Watch closely report and denounce what they consider " anti-Israeli " attitudes . In addition to Israel 's hasbara organization , intent on countering negative press images , there are also many private pro-Israeli organizations , among them CAMERA , FLAME , HonestReporting , Palestinian Media Watch and the Anti-Defamation League which subject reportage to scrutiny in the belief news on Israel has systematically distorted reality to privilege Palestinian versions . In Ehud Barak 's view Palestinians are " products of a culture in which to tell a lie . . creates no dissonance " . Others allow that both sides lie , but " Arabs " are better at it . The term Pallywood was coined to suggest that Palestinian coverage of their plight , in a genre called " traumatic realism " , is marked by a diffuse intent to fraudulently manipulate the media , beginning with the killing of Mohammad Durrah , and , it has been argued , still being evoked as late as 2014 to dismiss Israeli responsibility for the Beitunia killings . The idea has been dismissed as bearing the hallmarks of a " conspiracy theory " . On the other hand , book-length studies have been devoted to testing the theory that the world 's understanding of the conflict , though " mediated by Israeli newspapers to a domestic audience " , is " anti-Israel " . Attempts have been made to silence several high-profile critics of Israeli policies in the territories , among them Tony Judt , Norman Finkelstein , Joseph Massad , Nadia Abu El-Haj and William I. Robinson . Such difficulties have given rise to anxieties that the topic itself is at risk , and that the political pressures circumscribing research and discussion undermine academic freedom itself
Beitunia killings
Beitunia killings
Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict