Palestinian Media Watch ger några exempel på vad boken innehåller.
Palestinierna måste bland annat undvika att använda ett språkbruk som erkänner Israel som en "naturlig"stat. Ordet Israel bör alltid kombineras med t.ex. "rasistisk" eller " kolonialism" .
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information has published a book instructing Palestinians which words to use and calling to replace "the Israeli and American dissemination of poisoned terms." The book, which is called Terminology in Media, Culture and Politics, includes a chart with the "poisoned terms" to be replaced by Palestinian terms.
Official PA terminology guide:
Instead of
"terror" say "resistance"
Instead of "suicide bombing"
say "Martyrdom-seeking operation"
Instead of "Star of David" say "Six-pointed star"
Instead of "suicide bombing"
say "Martyrdom-seeking operation"
Instead of "Star of David" say "Six-pointed star"
"This book and the chosen terms are significant as they officially and accurately reflect PA beliefs, policies and ideologies. As Palestinian Media Watch has documented for years, when speaking to its own people, the PA adamantly denies Israel's right to exist and glorifies the murder of Israelis and Jews, including civilians, as heroic "resistance" when speaking to own its people. This terminology guide issued by the PA reiterates the official PA positions that foreign governments and the international media often don't understand, deny, or ignore."
| Israeli term | Palestinian Arab term |
| (Palestinian) Terror | Resistance |
| (Palestinian) Terrorist | Resistance member |
| Suicide (bombing) operations | Martyrdom-seeking operations |
| Palestinian violence | Legitimate resistance |
| Person who was killed | Martyr (Shahid) |
| reciprocal violence | Resistance response |
The PA refuses to recognize Israel's fight against Palestinian terror as self-defense. Through its terminology, it attempts to delegitimize Israeli security structures and defense measures by replacing the following terms:
| Israeli term | Palestinian Arab term |
| Israeli Minister of Defense | Israeli Minister of War |
| IDF - Israeli Defense Forces | Israeli occupation forces |
| Separation fence | Racist separation fence |
The PA refuses to refer to Israel's Arab citizens as 'Israeli Arabs' or 'Arab Israelis'. The Ministry of Information writes:
"The alternative term for 'Israeli Arabs' is 'the
Palestinian people in the '48 territories."
The term "'48 territories"
is another Palestinian Authority euphemism intended to deny recognition of
Israel and is used to replace all references to land in Israel. The term "'48
territories" is actually a shortened term for the full expression used by the
PA: "the Palestinian
territories occupied in 1948."Part of the denial of Israel's right to exist includes the PA's refusal to acknowledge thousands of years of Jewish history and culture in the Land of Israel. The book includes Palestinian expressions that should be used to replace Israeli terminology related to history and tradition:
| Israeli term | Palestinian Arab term |
| Star of David | Six-pointed star |
| Wailing (Western) Wall | Al-Buraq Wall |
| Temple Mount | Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem |
| The Promised Land | The Land of Palestine |
| Judea and Samaria (Biblical terms) | The occupied West Bank |
This book issued by the PA Ministry of Information is significant because it states and confirms in an official PA document what Palestinian Media Watch has been documenting for years: that the PA terminology that is used by PA leaders and their controlled media is significant and carefully chosen and reflects PA opinions and policy.
Book title: Terminology in Media, Culture and Politics
By: Ministry of Information
The book is currently available for reading on the PA Ministry of Information's website
[http://www.minfo.ps, accessed June 18, 2012
| Israeli term | Palestinian Arab term |
| (Israeli) Redeployment | Withdrawal from occupied territory |
| Palestinians | The Palestinian People |
| The Palestinian Authority | The Palestinian National Authority |
| PA autonomous areas | Liberated Palestinian territory |
| East Jerusalem | Arab Jerusalem |
| Disputed territory | Occupied territory |
| Return (of refugees) | Right of return (of refugees) |
| Palestinian demands | Palestinian rights |
| Israeli authorities | Israeli occupation authorities |
| Israeli prisons | Israeli occupation prisons |
| The Green Line | 1967 borders |
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