Khaled Abu Toameh

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Khaled Abu Toameh (Arabic: خالد أبو طعمة‎, born 1963) is an "Israeli-Arab-Muslim-Palestinian" journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report, and has been the Palestinian affairs producer for NBC News since 1988. His articles have appeared in The Sunday Times, Daily Express and many others. He also writes for the Hudson Institute think-tank in New York.[1]

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[edit] Background

Abu Toameh was born in the West Bank city of Tulkarem in 1963 to an Israeli Arab father and a Palestinian Arab mother from the West Bank.[2] He received his BA in English Literature from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.[3]

Toameh has referred to himself as an "Israeli-Arab-Muslim-Palestinian", whose vision of an ideal world would be "if there is a Jew who would like to live in Palestine he is welcome, and if there is an Arab who would like to live in Israel he is also welcome. In an ideal situation, peace means that people can live wherever they want." [4]

[edit] Career

Khaled Abu Toameh was formerly a senior reporter for The Jerusalem Report, and a correspondent for Al-Fajr, which he describes as a mouthpiece for the PLO.[3] He has produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC, Channel 4, Australian, Danish and Swedish TV, including ones that exposed the connection between Arafat and payments to the armed wing of Fatah, as well as the financial corruption within the Palestinian Authority.[3] He was the first journalist to report about the sex scandal that rocked the Palestinian Authority in early 2010 and which led to the firing of Rafiq Husseini, Chief of Staff for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The scandal was revealed by former Palestinian intelligence official Fahmi Shabaneh in an exclusive interview with Abu Toameh in The Jerusalem Post.[5]

Abu Toameh writes for a blog hosted by the Hudson Institute,[6] and has served as a lecturer with the University of Minnesota - School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[7] He has also lectured at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), [8] as well as the London-based think tank Chatham House. [9]

[edit] Speaking engagements

Abu Toameh was a keynote speaker at the 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists in Vancouver.[10] He has spoken at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by invitation. [11]

At university campuses throughout the U.S. and Canada, he has spoken on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and prospects for peace in the Middle East.[4][12] He was listed as part of the speakers bureau for the Hasbara Fellowships, who have brought him to more than a dozen talks at various university campuses.[13][14][15] A series of his talks have also been sponsored by StandWithUs,[16][17] and he spoke at their annual conference in Los Angeles in 2008.[18]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.hudson-ny.org/columnists/
  2. ^ Astor, Maggie (Feb. 2, 2008). "Journalist Takes Even Handed Approach to Arab-Israeli Conflict". Columbia Daily Spectator. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2008/02/20/journalist-takes-even-handed-approach-arab-israeli-conflict. 
  3. ^ a b c Abu Toameh, Khaled (April 27, 2004). "Telling the Truth about the Palestinians". Middle East Forum. http://www.meforum.org/article/604. 
  4. ^ a b Amalia Biro (March 2010). "Arab-Israeli conflict incites heated debate at Laurier". Laurier University News. Wilfrid Laurier University. http://www.thecord.ca/articles/28246. Retrieved 2010-04-28. 
  5. ^ Jpost interview
  6. ^ Hudson Institute blog
  7. ^ Murphy Weekly (2009). "Jerusalem Post Correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh to speak on campus". Murphy Weekly. University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication. http://sjmc.umn.edu/news/weekly.php. Retrieved 2010-04-28. 
  8. ^ Gavin Gross (2008). "Anti-Israeli Activity at the School of Oriental and African Studies: How Jewish Students Started to Fight Back". From Manfred Gerstenfeld ( ed.) Academics against Israel and the Jews. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=381&PID=470&IID=2628. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
  9. ^ "Meeting: An Israel Arab`s Perspective On Gaza, The New Palestinian Authority, Hamas And The Elections". Member Event, transcript included. Chatham House. April 2006. http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/events/view/-/id/420/. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
  10. ^ "Khaled Abu Toameh, Keynote". Annual Conference and Awards Gala 2009. Canadian Association of Journalists. 2009. http://www.eagle.ca/caj/events/conf-2009/index.html. Retrieved 2010-04-28. 
  11. ^ "HJS Event Israel-Palestinian Relations". Transcript of remarks made at the House of Commons. Henry Jackson Society. December 2009. http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/stories.asp?id=1328. Retrieved 2010-04-28. 
  12. ^ Morgan Chalfant (April 2010). "Palestinian Journalist Speaks at BC". The Observer. Boston College. http://www.thebcobserver.com/2010/04/15/palestinian-journalist-speaks-with-students/. Retrieved 2010-04-28. 
  13. ^ "ICC: Israel on Campus Coalition-Subsidized Speakers List" (PDF). Israel on Campus Coalition. http://www.israelcc.org/NR/rdonlyres/5DCDE322-608E-4BCD-AADF-42CFFAE4D5A1/0/speakerslist.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-10. 
  14. ^ Hudson Abu Toameh on Campus
  15. ^ Tyler Sandson (February 26, 2007). "Arab journalist talks about Israeli-Palestinian conflict". The Daily Texan. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/university/arab-journalist-talks-about-israeli-palestinian-conflict-1.960714. Retrieved 2010-03-10. [dead link]
  16. ^ StandWithUs
  17. ^ Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
  18. ^ L.A.‘s defenders of Israel

Arab Journalist Refuses to be Silenced http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/journalist-says-only-truth-will-set-palestine-free/story-e6frg6z6-1225866997079


Arab Israeli Journalist visits UO http://www.dailyemerald.com/2.2358/arab-israeli-journalist-visits-uo-1.194441

Abu Toameh on Western media coverage of Israeli-Arab conflict http://www.hudson-ny.org/1481/middle-east-western-media

Palestinian Authority Silences Opposition http://www.hudson-ny.org/1514/palestinian-authority-silencing-opposition

What About Hamas's Siege of Gaza? http://www.hudson-ny.org/1362/hamas-siege-of-gaza

Do Abbas and Fayyad Have a Mandate? http://www.hudson-ny.org/1502/abbas-fayyad-mandate

Where are the "Moderate" Muslims? http://www.hudson-ny.org/1471/moderate-muslims

[edit] Articles and documentaries

[http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/24/khaled-abu-toameh-the-palestinian-victims-no-one-talks-about/

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