Media Watch International

Media Watch International (MWI) is an organization "dedicated to advancing Israel's image by promoting accurate, impartial media coverage of, and providing timely, factual information about, Israel and the Middle East."

MWI, and its campus arm, Caravan for Democracy, was founded by Sharon Tzur. The organization states it "oversaw the runaway success of Honestreporting.com, until it reached over 50,000 activists and became an independent organization. It started the Caravan in 2002, in partnership with the Jewish National Fund to promote Israel’s message on campuses.

In 2008, responding to a British academic boycott of Israel, MWI founded the "Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel, an academic fellowship which brings college faculty members on an educational two week program to Israel."

Ronn Torossian is listed, on MWI's website, as a staff writer. In their investigation of the possible political use of the film, the said the Clarion Fund's address was the same as that of the fundraising arm of Aish HaTorah. The group that produced the film, HonestReporting, had the same address on its 2006 tax return; the Times also said HonestReporting had been taken over by Media Watch International. spokesman for Aish HaTorah, said that his group would in "no way be involved with Clarion Fund or Obsession because Aish HaTorah is a charity and must remain apolitical