Pro-Zionist think tanks form the institutional base disseminating negative Middle East media

Evidence

The power of Emerson’s film, and the cleverness of its strategy, is that of course there is no influential countervailing view of Islam in the media, little sense that the huge majority of Muslims should not really be associated with the marginal and tiny groups that he has blown out of all proportion. A considerable part of the animus fed by Emerson’s representation of “Islam” also derives from its putative anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel; several scenes of havoc after suicide bombings in Israel are shown, as well as a brief visual reference to the bombing of the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, for which no Muslim culprits have been arrested. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 222 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoconservative Middle East think tanks advance pro-Israel agendas in US policy; Think tanks, academia, and media institutions jointly produce Islamophobia; Zionism’s influence spread through psychological critique rather than political program — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2077 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• MEMRI was founded by neocons to selectively translate Middle East media negatively #exemplifies (0.95)
• MEMRI selectively translates Middle East media to support Zionist positions. #corroborates (0.93)
• Media portrayals of Islamic terror exploit pro-Israel sentiment to demonize all Muslims #expands (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 222
• Right-wing Islamophobia shaped media bias before and independently of state power #complicates (0.85)
• Pro-Israel groups seeded the Islamophobia network to suppress campus Palestine activism #expands (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 677
• Think tanks, academia, and media institutions jointly produce Islamophobia #corroborates (0.80)
• Media touted anonymous sources and disguised Israeli analysts as neutral experts #epitomizes (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 236
• Anti-Israel criticism gets coded as Islamist backwardness in media framing. #corroborates (0.72)
• Zionism’s influence spread through psychological critique rather than political program #complicates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2077