Khaled Abu Toameh

Khaled Abu Toameh (Arabic: خالد أبو طعمة‎‎, Hebrew: חאלד אבו טועמה‎‎; born 1963) is an Israeli Arab journalist, lecturer and documentary filmmaker.
Abu Toameh writes for The Jerusalem Post and for the New York-based Gatestone Institute, where he is a senior distinguished fellow. He is a producer and consultant for NBC News since 1989. His articles have also appeared in numerous newspapers around the world.

Khaled Abu Toameh was born to an Israeli Arab father and a Palestinian Arab mother. He grew up in the Arab-Israeli town Baqa al-Gharbiyye. He received a B.A. in English literature from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem.

Since 2002, Khaled Abu Toameh has reported for The Jerusalem Post on Arab affairs. Since 1989 he has been a producer and consultant for NBC News. He has produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC, Channel 4, Australian, Danish and Swedish television.

Abu Toameh has served as a lecturer with the University of Minnesota – School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He has also lectured at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), as well as the London-based think tank Chatham House.

Abu Toameh has spoken at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by invitation. He was a keynote speaker at the 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists in Vancouver. He has spoken on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and prospects for peace in the Middle East at university campuses throughout the U.S. and Canada. A series of his talks have been sponsored by StandWithUs, and he spoke at their annual conference in Los Angeles in 2008.

In August 2011 Abu Toameh was invited to speak at the Sydney Institute in Australia on the challenge of Palestinian state-building. Two days later he also gave a talk on "Human rights challenges in the Palestinian territories" at a seminar organized by The Australian Human Rights Centre.

Abu Toameh is a staunch defender of freedom of speech and has criticized the Palestinian Authority for arresting and harassing Palestinian journalists in the West Bank.

In the Durban Review Conference, Toameh criticized Israeli Arab Knesset members for supporting extremism and calling Israel a "state of apartheid" rather than fighting for the rights of Arab citizens of Israel.

Abu Toameh says he is routinely subject to condemnations, and is often threatened. He notes, however, that more threats are coming from outside the Middle East than from within the Palestinian Authority, and that those who threaten him "roundly acknowledge" that he is telling the truth and don't question his reporting, but want him to "shut up."

Following publication of his 2013 article "The Palestinian Authority's Inconvenient Truth", which is critical of the Palestinian Authority, the author's Facebook page was temporarily deactivated. It is unclear whether Facebook's action was taken in light of official complaints from the Palestinian Authority and Jordan or because other users flagged the posts as offensive.

Facebook reactivated his account but removed his article about the Palestinian Authority's corruption. Subsequently, Facebook issued an apology for the deletion of his article, calling it "an employee's error".

In response, Abu Toameh wrote in an op-ed that many journalists in the Middle East are forced to use Facebook to publish work that their own media will not accept. He also said, "It is the duty of Facebook and Western societies to side with those seeking freedom, and not to be complicit in suppressing their voices". In the same article, he decried the recent arrests of journalists and bloggers that were critical of the Palestinian Authority's leadership in their Facebook pages.

Abu Toameh received the 2014 Daniel Pearl Award. Abu Toameh shared Israel Media Watch's 2010 award for media criticism with the satirical Israeli website Latma.

On 10 May 2011, Khaled Abu Toameh won the Hudson Institute Award for Courage in Journalism.

Canada's Toronto Sun columnist Salim Mansur praised Abu Toameh for his courage and knowledge of the politics of the Arab world.

Abu Toameh is the 2013 recipient of the Emet award given by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).

He was chosen on the Algemeiner Journal's 2013 list of The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life.

• "Hamas Wins! PA Dishes Out Conspiracy Theories". Gatestone Institute. 18 October 2011. 
• "What do wealthy Arabs care about?". Gatestone Institute. 18 October 2011. 
• "Satirical Palestinian TV show elicits anger in West Bank: 'Watan ala Watar' mocks PA security forces, doctors' union; Police say they'll sue broadcaster for making them look 'vulgar'". The Jerusalem Post. 10 August 2011. 
• "Gaza cops use 'beatings, stun guns' on women reporters; Hamas security personnel raid offices of media organizations, including Reuters and CNN, confiscate equipment and documents". The Jerusalem Post. 28 March 2011. 
• "Award-winning Palestinian journalist forced into hiding". The Jerusalem Post. 6 August 2011. 
• "Dahlan returns to West Bank to fight corruption charges". The Jerusalem Post. 23 July 2011. 
• "Telling the Truth about the Palestinians". Middle East Forum. 27 April 2004. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Arab world fed up with Hizbullah". The Jerusalem Post. 17 July 2006. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
• "Fatah: We've lost the battle for Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post. 14 May 2007. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
• "Israeli Arabs Not Fifth Column". Gatestone Institute. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 2015-05-15. 
• "Why Salam Fayyad Can't Deliver". Gatestone Institute. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 2015-05-15. 
• "The Palestinian victims no one talks about". National Post. Canada. 24 July 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
• "Where Are the Voices of 'Moderate' Muslims?". Gatestone Institute. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 2015-05-15. 
• "'Palestine's new bride'". The Jerusalem Post. 20 August 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
• "Hypocrites in Washington: What Egypt's Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah Really Want". Gatestone Institute. 3 September 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
• "Why Abbas Wants to Kill Palestinians Who Do Business With Jews". Gatestone Institute. 24 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Mubarak's Media". Gatestone Institute. 21 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "The Gaza Strip: Why Is Washington Sticking Its Head in the Sand?". Gatestone Institute. 17 September 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
• "The Palestinian Authority: Silencing the Opposition". Gatestone Institute. 27 August 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "US, EU Support Violations of Human Rights as Palestinian Authority Escalates Repression, Brutality". Gatestone Institute. 24 December 2010. Retrieved 2015-05-15. 
• "Gaza's Women: Who Is Defending Their Rights?". Gatestone Institute. 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Why Arab leaders Do Not Care About Medical Services In Their Countries". Gatestone Institute. 21 December 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Middle East's Western Media: Hypocrisy, Double Standards Out of Control". Gatestone Institute. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "What About Hamas's Siege of Gaza?". Gatestone Institute. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Abbas & Fayyad: Do They Have a Mandate?". Gatestone Institute. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Intifada Over the Arab World?". Gatestone Institute. 1 January 2011. Retrieved 2015-04-15. 
• "Other Published articles ...". gatestoneinstitute.org.