Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a Professor of History at Boston University. He blogs at The Augean Stables, and maintains The Second Draft as an archival site for all matters pertaining to Pallywood and al Durah. The Second Draft has recently been reorganized and relaunched with new features.
Revisiting ‘Al Durah’ in Time of Iranian Media Control
There's a world of difference between the video coming out of Iran and the infamous footage out of Gaza.
Revealing Silence at the Gaza-Egypt Border
Why does Hamas victimize its own people? And why doesn't the media call them on it?
Karsenty Strikes Blow for Freedom in Al-Dura Case [VIDEO]
Richard Landes of the Second Draft reviews the evidence that the "Al-Dura Affair" was, as ruled by a French appeals court today, a hoax — and exposes other works of "Pallywood."
Pallywood Strikes Again!
The Al-Dura Affair isn't the only time France 2 has presented staged footage by the Palestinians as real. Richard Landes points out another case in this video report.
Al-Dura and the “Public Secret” of Middle East Journalism
The evidence emerging from the ongoing Al Dura trial in France indicates that Western journalists are fully aware that some of the footage they use in their reports on the Mideast conflict is staged, charges Richard Landes. When confronted with the pervasive evidence of staging in the case of Al Dura, the reaction of France 2, which ran the story, has been essentially that "everybody does it."
