According to MEMRI, in an interview aired on Al-Alam TV on May 15, 2009, PFLP-GC representative in Lebanon Anwar Raja denied the Holocaust, claiming that " the Jews have managed to falsify history " according to their interests and that the figure of 6 million Jews ( killed by the Nazis ) is an " inflation, falsification, and exaggeration ".

Following his death in June 2012, Garaudy subsequently received praise from a number of sources ( as translated by MEMRI ):

MEMRI was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born, American political scientist.

MEMRI was fonded by Yigal Carmon and Meyrav Wurmser.

" According to PRA, MEMRI's translated articles and its commentary are routinely cited in national media outlets in the United States, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, while analyses by MEMRI staff and officers are frequently published by right-wing and neoconservative media outlets such as National Review, Fox News, Commentary, and the Weekly Standard.

Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, argues MEMRI has a tendency to " cleverly cherry-pick the vast Arabic press, which serves 300 million people, for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials ... On more than one occasion I have seen, say, a bigoted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when I went to the source on the web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance.

The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America " lists MEMRI as promoting Islamophobic propaganda in the USA through supplying selective translations that are relied upon by several organisations " to make the case that Islam is inherently violent and promotes extremism.

" Barakat claims an essay he wrote for the Al-Hayat Daily of London titled The Wild Beast that Zionism Created: Self-Destruction, was mistranslated by MEMRI and retitled as Jews Have Lost Their Humanity.

Barakat further stated " Every time I wrote Zionism, MEMRI replaced the word by Jew or Judaism.

Farfour asks Sanabel what she will do and, after a pause says " I'll shoot ", MEMRI attributed the phrase said by Farfour, (" I'll shoot "), as the girl's reply while ignoring her actual reply (" I'm going to draw a picture ").

Whitaker and others commented that a statement uttered by the same child, (" We're going to want to resist "), had been given an unduly aggressive interpretation by MEMRI as (" We want to fight ").

Also, where MEMRI translated the girl as saying the highly controversial remark (" We will annihilate the Jews "), Whitaker and others, including Arabic speakers used by CNN, insist that based on careful listening to the low quality video clip, the girl is saying " Bitokhoona al-yahood ", variously interpreted as, " The Jews shoot us " or " The Jews are killing us.

MEMRI responds to criticism by saying that the media had a tendency to whitewash statements of Arab leaders, and regularly defends its translations as being representative of actual ME viewpoints, even when the translations themselves are disputed: " MEMRI has never claimed to ' represent the view of the Arabic media ', but rather to reflect, through our translations, general trends which are widespread and topical.

" MEMRI's translation of Al-Gamei ' a's interview was later cited by the New York Times, which hired two independent translators to confirm the MEMRI translation.

In a 9 January 2009, sermon during the Gaza War, shown on Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed ( as translated by MEMRI ):

In a program which aired on Libya's Al-Jamahiriya TV on May 29, 2011 ( as translated by MEMRI ), Dumas sharply criticzed Sarkozy, stating that the only thing I know French Leaders is that they have gone crazy.

Concerning this change in their ‘ mission statement ,’ Political Research Associates ( PRA ), which studies the US political right, notes that it occurred three weeks after the September 11 attacks, and considers MEMRI " was previously more forthcoming about its political orientation in its self-description and in staff profiles on its website.

In 2012, Haaretz reported that Israeli intelligence agencies have reduced their monitoring the Palestinian media with MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch now providing the Israeli government with coverage of " anti-Israel incitement " in social media, blogs and other online sources.

MEMRI has responded to the attacks of critics, stating that their work is not biased ; that they in fact choose representative articles from the Arab media that accurately reflect the opinions expressed, and that their translations are highly accurate.

" Former head of the CIA's counterintelligence unit, Vincent Cannistraro, said that MEMRI " are selective and act as propagandists for their political point of view, which is the extreme-right of Likud.

MEMRI argues that they are quoting the government-controlled press and not obscure or extremist publications, a fact their critics acknowledge, according to Marc Perelman.

They state that MEMRI consistently picks for translation and dissemination the most extreme views, which portray the Arab and Muslim world in a negative light, while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets.

The accuracy of MEMRI's translations are considered " usually accurate " though occasionally disputed and highly selective in what it chooses to translate and in which context it puts things, as in the case of MEMRI's translation of a 2004 Osama bin Laden video, which MEMRI defended.

For one segment of the discussion in regard to the victims, MEMRI provided the following translation of al-Sebai's words:

Brian Whitaker wrote in a blog for the Guardian newspaper that in the translation of the video, showing Farfour eliciting political comments from a young girl named Sanabel, the MEMRI transcript misrepresents the segment.

As an institute of research, we want MEMRI to present translations to people who wish to be informed on the ideas circulating in the Middle East.

As an institute of research, we want MEMRI to present translations to people who wish to be informed on the ideas circulating in the Middle East.

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" The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ( CAMERA ), a pro-Israel media watchdog group, MEMRI, and Shaul Shai interpret this language as broadly antisemitic.

The Middle East Media Research Institute ( MEMRI ) is a Middle Eastern not for profit press monitoring organization with headquarters located in Washington, DC.

MEMRI offers specialized content for a fee.

Based in Washington, DC with branch offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, Rome, Shanghai, Baghdad, and Tokyo, MEMRI was founded in 1998.

Wurmser, who later left MEMRI, is an Israeli-born, American scholar of the Arab world.

MEMRI president and founder Yigal Carmon states that MEMRI's current staff includes " people of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths hold a range of political views.

* Steven Stalinsky — Executive Director of MEMRI.

* Mansour Al-Hadj — Director of MEMRI ’ s " Reform in The Arab and Muslim World project.

The Board of directors and advisors of MEMRI includes Ehud Barak, Norman Podhoretz, Elie Wiesel, John Bolton, Nathan Sharansky, Elliott Abrams, Paul Bremer, Steve Emerson, Edgar Bronfman, Mort Zuckerman, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Jeffrey Kaufman, Oliver " Buck " Revell, Robert Reilly.

" In September 2001, MEMRI replaced it with the current mission statement which states that the organization " explores the Middle East through the region's media.

MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu-Pashto media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.

According to MEMRI, its translations and reports are distributed to " congresspersons, congressional staff, policy makers, journalists, academics, and interested parties.

PRA writes that both critics and supporters of MEMRI note its increasing influence in shaping perceptions of the Middle East.

MEMRI monitors primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu / Pashtu and Dari media and other material from the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, and Arab and Muslim communities in the West.

MEMRI provides translations and analyses into: English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese.

MEMRI is registered in the US with the IRS as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization.

MediaTransparency, an organization that monitors the financial ties of conservative think tanks to conservative foundations in the United States, reported that for the years 1999 to 2004, MEMRI received $ 100, 000 from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc., $ 100, 000 from The Randolph Foundation, and $ 5, 000 from the John M. Olin Foundation.