[citation needed] The premiere edition of the electronic newspaper format under the name The Palestine Telegraph came out on March 11, 2009.
[citation needed] In February 2010, the newspaper generated controversy when it published an article which claimed that an Israel Defense Forces emergency aid hospital in Haiti (after the 2010 Haiti earthquake) was secretly harvesting organs and selling them on the black market.
In response, founding chairman Sameh Habeeb stated that Lendman’s article represents "him and his views.
[7][8] In the aftermath, Baroness Tonge, at this time a patron of The Palestine Telegraph, had to stand down as health spokesperson in the House of Lords on February 12, 2010.
[6] Baroness Tonge resigned from the Board of Patrons in April 2010, after The Palestine Telegraph posted a video — since removed — from David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who claimed Israel presented a terrorism threat to the United States.