Khaled Abu Toameh

Khaled Abu Toameh ( _ar. خالد أبو طعمة) is an Israeli Arab 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 the "New Republic".

Khaled Abu Toameh was a senior reporter for The Jerusalem Report, and a correspondent for Al-Fajr, which he describes as a front for the PLO. [ [http://www.meforum.org/article/604 The Middle East Forum] ] 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 and the financial corruption within the Palestinian Authority. [ [http://www.meforum.org/article/604 The Middle East Forum] ]

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. [ [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29441 Columbia Spectator] ] . [ [http://incontext.blogmosis.com/archives/024656.html In Context] ] Abu Toameh received his BA in English Literature from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children. [ [http://www.meforum.org/article/604 The Middle East Forum] ]

Abu tomeh is often praised for his "Even Handed Approach to Arab-Israeli Conflict." [ [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29441 Columbia Spectator] ]

Asked why he, an Arab, works for an Israeli newspaper, Abu Tomeh responds, "As a journalist, I have no problem working for any newspaper that provides me a platform and that doesn’t interfere with my writing.” [ [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29441 Columbia Spectator] ]

References

Articles and documentaries

* [http://www.meforum.org/article/604 Telling the Truth about the Palestinians] A briefing by Khaled Abu Toameh, "Middle East Quarterly" April 27, 2004
* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708564884&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Ramallah couple arrested for selling daughters] , "Jerusalem Post" May 10, 2007 (Example of West Bank news story)
* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708601224&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Fatah: We've lost the battle for Jerusalem] , "Jerusalem Post" May. 14, 2007
*http://www.google.com/search?q=khaled+abu+toameh&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2006-01,GGLD:en Arab World Fed Up With Hizbullah