Khaled Abu Toameh

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Khaled Abu Toameh (Arabic: 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.^[1] 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. ^[2]

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. ^[3]. ^[4] Abu Toameh received his BA in English Literature from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children. ^[5]

Abu tomeh is often praised for his "Even Handed Approach to Arab-Israeli Conflict." ^[6]

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.”^[7]