The attempts to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in May 2021 caught the attention of the world. While this small Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem had long been central to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the planned expulsions pushed the situation back into the spotlight. This book discusses the complexity of the media war that took place at the same time. Across 20 chapters, it compares Israeli, Western, Palestinian and Arab media to understand how different narratives were discussed, supported and challenged. In particular, the book captures how social media became a site of online activism and alternative war narratives. The volume is unique in focusing on a specific event from many different perspectives and with material from different countries and media platforms. Case studies include the Spanish press; the African press; the BBC; Al-Jazeera English; TRT World Television; and digital media such as TikTok and Facebook, as well as the impact of social media activism. In doing so, the book also comments on the extent that citizen journalists challenge the propaganda war.

Noureddine Miladi is Professor of Media and Communication at Qatar University, Qatar. Among his recent published books are Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution (2021) and he co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Arab Media (2020). He received his PhD in Media and Communication from the University of Westminster, London, UK.

List of Contributors
Introduction
Noureddine Miladi


Part 1 Mediating the Conflict: Cross-Country Perspectives


1. Digital Media and the War of Narratives in Reporting the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Noureddine Miladi and Aaya Miladi

2. Gaza 2021: Newsworthiness and Context in the Spanish News Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ruth Sanz Sabido

3. Counter-Hegemonic Global Media Narratives on the Palestine-Israel Conflict: The Sheikh Jarrah Protests on CGTN, RT, France 24 and Telesur
Christopher D. Tulloch and Jose Luis Gordillo

4. Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Comparing Al Jazeera English and i24News
Noureddine Miladi, Rania El-Malky and Karima Miladi

5. SDG16 in the News: Digital News Coverage of Sheikh Jarrah in Nigerian Newspapers
Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u

6. Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions on TRT World's Twitter Account
Yusuf Devran


Part 2 Digital Media and the Competing Media Narratives


7 . Digital Activism and the Politics of Protest: Palestine and the Struggle for Global Popular Representation
Mazhar Al-Zo'by

8. The Orchestration of Activist Events: Making Protests Heard (and seen)
Konstantin Aal, Sarah Rüller, Peter Tolmie and Volker Wulf

9. #PalDigiplomacy: Online Palestinian Public Diplomacy during Israel's 2021 Attacks
Loreley Hahn-Herrera

10. Social Media, Activism and Mass Protest: Framed Narratives of the May 2021 Sheikh Jarrah's Events
Shadi Abu-Ayyash and Hussein AlAhmad

11. Palestinian War Narrative and Social Media: Ethnographic Account of the Victims of Israel-Palestine War during May 2021
Tawseef Majeed and Ali M. Abushbak


Part 3 Social Media Management and Public Opinion Control


12. Comparative Analysis of Israeli and PLO Diplomacy Practices during the May 2021 Israeli Attacks against Gaza
Sherouk Maher and Dina Matar

13. Platform Necropolitics: Content Moderation and Censoring of Pro-Palestinian Voices on Social Media
Kelly Lewis

14. Pro-Palestinian Activism: Resisting the Digital Occupation
Dounia Mahlouly and Zaina Erhaim

15. The Media War in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Examining Interstate Character Assassination in International Media
Aspriadis Neofytos

Index