Communicating Palestine: New One-Stop Digital Guide For Ethical Reporting

Ramallah, 6 October 2025 - Today marks the launch of Communicating Palestine - www.communicatingpalestine.org - a comprehensive digital guide created to help journalists, editors, and media professionals engage with Palestinians and their reality ethically, responsibly, and with integrity.

Developed by a diverse Palestinian collective of journalists, writers, civil society members and human rights defenders, the guide distills years of research, focus groups and surveys with Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora to ensure Palestinian agency. It is designed as a go-to resource for media professionals—whether reporters, editors, anchors, or photo and video journalists—offering practical tools to navigate a highly contested communication landscape.

Why it matters

As we are marking a devastating two years of genocide and accelerated colonial violence in Palestine, communication has continued to be weaponised to distort, erase and silence. For Palestinians, the struggle over narrative and representation has always been inseparable from the fight for liberation and self-determination.

Misinformation, censorship and bias in reporting are not abstract failings, but direct enablers of dehumanisation and violence. Ethical communication is therefore not just a professional duty—it can be a matter of survival for Palestinians.

“In these past two years, Israel has made it clear it is using media and social media as weapons. In the flow of disinformation and censorship that have been extensively documented, Communicating Palestine aims to be the timeless, one-stop manual any communicator needs for tools and pathways to respect Palestinians' realities, voices and agency, Said Inès Abdel Razek, Co-Director of the PIPD", the organization leading the initiative.

What the guide offers

Communicating Palestine is structured into four main sections:

Narratives and framings – analysis and recommendations to counter harmful tropes and disinformation.

Visual representations – guidance for photographers and video journalists on responsible imagery.

Communication and engagement practices – tips and tools for reporting, interviewing, and platforming Palestinians.

Tools: user-friendly resources that can be day-to-day support in your work.

Practical checklists on key take-aways from across the guide

Terminology guide for accurate reporting.

Photography and video guidelines to avoid harmful visuals.

Resources countering disinformation, bias and fallacies.

Tailored for newsrooms

The guide is made to be useful to a diverse range of sectors —including activists, artists, academics, educators and policymakers—the team has pre-selected sections most relevant to journalists and editors, ensuring usability in newsroom workflows.

To further support the media, the Communicating Palestine team offers briefings, workshops and teach-ins for interested journalists, media networks and editorial boards.

About Communicating Palestine

Communicating Palestine is a free digital platform providing accessible knowledge, recommendations and tools for responsible engagement with Palestine. It has been developed over several years by a Palestinian collective of journalists, human rights defenders, civil society members and writers, and informed by broad consultation with Palestinians at home and abroad.

Communicating Palestine is hosted and led by the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy

The PIPD is a non-governmental independent organization established in 2018 advocating for the liberation of Palestine from all forms of settler colonialism. Our team is dedicated to advancing Palestinian people’s diplomacy as well as strengthening a Palestinian-led movement equipped with the necessary tools and influence to confront the injustices experienced by the Palestinian people, along with the systems, structures and geopolitical arrangements that perpetuate them.

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