David Bedein

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. David Bedein (born August 31, 1950) is an MSW, a community organizer by profession, a writer, and an investigative journalist.[1] In 1987 he established the Israel Resource News Agency,[2] with offices at the Beit Agron Int’l Press Center in Jerusalem. He serves as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.

Mr. Bedein has also reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jerusalem Post, and the Jewish World Review.[3] For four years, Bedein was the Middle East correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010.[4]

About

Bedein has covered attempts at Middle East negotiations centering Israel - in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Mr. Bedein is the author of Where Has All the Flour Gone? The Whims and Waste of UN Palestinian Refugee Policy.[5]

The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, in commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2010, the agency decided to focus on producing short movies, instead of monographs, and to film each aspect of the UNRWA investigations in a clear and cogent fashion. In that context, Bedein produced two documentary films on UNRWA: Inside the UNRWA Classroom and Camp Jihad in 2013.[6][7]

Work

Bedein was active in the Israeli peace movement for over for 17 years.[8]

In the 1980s, Bedein went to Ethiopia as part of a delegation to investigate the impact of the famine on the Ethiopian Jewish community.[9]

Most recently, David Bedein's organization has developed Btselem Watch, with its own website whose purpose is to introduce professional criticism and feedback to leading organizations which are described as human rights groups that operate in the political domain.

Research and media presence

Mr. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, the New Israel Fund, and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).[10] Mr. Bedein has also reported on all of these events and organizations at www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com.

Under the Direction of David Bedein The Center for Near East Policy Research and www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com have produced a number of investigative video productions. In July 2013 they released the film titled "Camp Jihad"[11] allegedly showing activities and interviews in which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in its 'summer camps'. This was not the first time he dealt with this topic.[12] UNRWA released an official rejection of these claims,[13] claiming the summer camp shown, and the people involved are not affiliated with UNRWA. In a November 2013 meeting between US Secretary of State, John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, parts of this film were shown.[14]

A review of Bedein's new book, Roadblock to Peace How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict: UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, can be found here [1] .

Bedein has been involved in UNRWA Reform Initiative,[15] which involves requests of donor nations to make reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein's legal counsel articulated these requested reforms in a letter to the British government DFID Agency which helps UNRWA.[16] In March 2014, Bedein participated in an informal panel at the British House of Commons with experts on UNRWA education.[17]

Since the publication of Bedein's book, Bedein has discovered several new alleged findings concerning UNRWA, Islamic groups that fund UNRWA,[18] Jews killed Christ in the Palestinian Authority Christian Education Texts Used in UNRWA Schools[19] and UNRWA Child Death Cult Education.[20]

ABC Lawsuit

In 1988, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) filed a lawsuit in Israel for $1 million[21] against Bedein’s company, Israel Resources, after Bedein showed “taped copies of the network’s evening news coverage of the Arab uprising”[22] (First Intifada) at one or more events where Bedein charged a fee for entry. ABC charged that Bedein violated the copyright to the footage by showing the clips.

The New York Times provided more context in an article just following the filing of the lawsuit:

Newscasts drawn from American, Canadian and European television were shown throughout the winter months to demonstrate the disparity between foreign and Israeli coverage of the Palestinian uprising. Showing the tapes to Jerusalem audiences helped lead to outraged charges from many Israelis that the international press was being unfair to their country.

Before the foreign television tapes were shown here, Israelis had seen only their own television coverage, which failed to show many of the worst cases of violence. That coverage helped many in this country form their personal impression of what what was happening in the occupied territories.

When they saw the foreign television coverage, many were shocked, and they accused the foreign news organizations of being biased against Israel.[23][24]

ABC ultimately lost the case in 1992 on a technicality for not being able to prove a corporate link between ABC Inc. and ABC News in a move the Jerusalem Post called “a pity”[25] in an editorial.

Films Produced by the Center for Near East Policy Research

The Center for Near East Policy Research has been investigating UNRWA for 27 years and has produced documentary films for over a decade, showing activities going on in schools and camps, with interviews from students and staff.[26]

  • 2015 'Iran: Billions for Terror'
  • 2015 'Children's Army of Hamas'[27]
  • 2014 'UNRWA Goes to War'
  • 2013 'Camp Jihad' [28]
  • 2011 'UNRWA Right of Return Summer Camp'
  • 2011 'Palestinian Refugee Policy: From Despair to Hope - Parts 1—2'
  • 2010 'For the Sake of Nakba'
  • 2004 'Hostages of Hatred - Parts 1—6'

References

  1. ↑ Israel: Israel in the international arena by Efraim Karsh, p. 213
  2. ↑ The Jewish spectator: Volume 57, School of the Jewish Woman, New York, N.Y. 1993
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  6. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5382&q=1
  7. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5666&q=1
  8. ↑ Jewish action: Volumes 60-61 Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America - 1999
  9. ↑ Jewish frontier: Volumes 52-54, League for Labor Palestine, Jewish Frontier Association, 1985
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  15. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=7115&q=4
  16. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5643&q=1
  17. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=7227&q=1
  18. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/islamic-groups-that-fund-unrwa/10840/
  19. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/official-palestinian-authority-allegation-jews-killed-christ-in-the-palestinian-authority-christian-education-textbooks-used-in-unrwa-schools-in-the-west-bank-jerusalem-gaza/10771/
  20. ↑ http://israelbehindthenews.com/the-u-n-s-child-death-cult-education/10766/
  21. ↑ “Letter to the Editor: ABC Suit Against Bedein.” Jerusalem Post. May 25, 1992.
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  25. ↑ “ABC and the Public.” Jerusalem Post. May 4, 1992.
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