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Table of
Contents:
The Website
What is
the Hasbara Israel Action Center?
The Action Plan
The Executive
The Website
The purpose of our website is to provide the reader with accurate
information about the Middle East, comprising 22 Arab countries, Iran and
Israel. The information presented is, predominantly, from recognized Arab,
Iranian and international sources. We hope that the reader will gain a balanced
understanding of this highly complex region of the world. We welcome your
comments. Contact
Us
What is the Hasbara Israel Action Center?
HIAC is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) comprised of people who
believe in advancing democracy, pluralism and mutual understanding in the Middle
East. What brings us together is our mutual concern about the distorted image of
Israel often portrayed in the international media and expressed in some
political circles.
We reach out to the media, governments, international organizations and
individuals, around the world and within Middle East countries, by providing
credible and verifiable facts about Israel and its neighbors.
Our members include native-born Israelis, immigrants from Europe, North
and South America, Australia, South Africa and Russia. Our wide diversity of
backgrounds enables us to apply an unusually broad understanding to the complex
issues that confront Israel on a daily basis.
We provide facilities for volunteers who want to use their skills in
order to contribute, by giving them a framework, connections, well-sourced facts
and the backup of the IAC office.
We aim to coordinate activities of other concerned organizations from
around the world, in order to maximize effect.
We aim to expose the misinformation disseminated by a well-financed Arab
propaganda campaign
We aim to involve the world community in the dilemmas faced by a
democracy defending itself from incessant terror attacks
We aim
to raise awareness of the inflammatory effect on the conflict and the damage
done to the world’s moral standing, caused by inciting terminology, which
implies a moral equivalence between victim and aggressor:
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Acts of terrorism, including suicide
bombings, depicted as a “popular uprising”
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Suicide bombers as “freedom fighters”
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Terrorists as “activists” or “militants”
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Armed terrorists killed in action as
“murdered Palestinian civilians”
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Child combatants armed with guns or
suicide belts as “innocent Palestinian children”
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Defense of Israeli civilians from
Palestinian terrorists as a “cycle of violence”, “genocide”, “massacre”, “war
crime”, “Nazi-like atrocities” or the “excessive use of force”
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Zionism as “racism” or “fascism”
The Action
Plan
Information – We maintain
well-sourced information on our website as well as a library of electronic
material available from our office.
Contacts –
Volunteers develop and maintain personal contact with key representatives of
international organizations, businesses, governments, media and diplomats to
ensure they are informed and receive hospitality whilst visiting Israel. Through
our ‘Country Teams Program’ volunteers in Israel and abroad join forces. They
monitor media, offer immediate response, supply the foreign media and diplomatic
corps with a variety of services including: hosting, guiding, translating,
providing updated information and human-interest stories, and the coordination
of meetings with public figures and victims of terror
attacks.
Training – Volunteers provide training to
concerned individuals, groups or professional speakers, to enable them to
communicate their message about Israel more
effectively.
Investigation and documentation – For
example, HIAC legal experts have prepared a thoroughly documented report on what
actually happened in Jenin, entitled "Jenin and other Palestinian Cities:
Operation Defensive Shield". It clarifies the IDF’s actions in Jenin, both
factually and within international law, and rebuts the foreign media’s reckless
use of the term “massacre”, which caused unjustified damage to Israel in the
period following the action. It was initially prepared for distribution to the
UN and Amnesty International, and is available on our website.
Translating and editing of material in various
languages
Support Program for victims of terror
attacks and their families, explaining their story.
International ‘Hasbara’ (PR) Conference in Israel 2003
as part of our coordinating efforts.
Fund Raising
Campaign to maintain the project
The Executive
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