May 7, 2008
  Ha’aretz columnist Uzi Benziman has an agenda — one to which he closely hews without letting the facts get in the way. For Benziman, truth is sacrificed in a mission to expose Israel’s consistent guilt, of which he is certain. | | ...More |
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May 3, 2008
 Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anybody anywhere to edit, has been described as a "game," a forum where academics and other knowledgeable people who try to contribute are "beaten back" in a world of "part anarchy, part mob rule," and worse. The encyclopedia's problems will not disappear if more good-faith editors participate. But it might help a bit. | | ...More |
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April 28, 2008
 CAMERA's Op-Ed, published on April 21 in the Jerusalem Post, discusses an example of how media coverage greatly benefitted from swift and effective response by Israeli officials, and concludes that nothing in the war of ideas and images takes the place of the all-important work of refuting defamation. | | ...More |
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April 28, 2008
 CAMERA's Op-Ed, published on April 24 in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, notes that some speakers at conferences hosted by the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center talk about the modern State of Israel the way Christians talked about Jews in Medieval Europe. | | ...More |
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April 23, 2008
The headline over Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell's April 20 column read, "Was 'Excluded' the Wrong Word?" The column itself proved that it was, and yet the ombudsman did not find that a correction was necessary to the assertion that "except for a relatively small Druze population," Israel excludes its Arab citizens from military service. | | ...More |
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April 11, 2008
 There is a conflict between the Palestinians and Israel over the West Bank and Jerusalem that, according to international peace plans, should be resolved through negotiations. But the Journal's news pages report as if the conflict is already resolved — in accordance with Palestinian demands.
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April 10, 2008
 A CAMERA letter today in the Jerusalem Post debunks an argument made by Machsom Watch's Nomi Lalo that checkpoints and checkpoints serve no security purpose because "terrorists do not pass through roadblocks." | | ...More |
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April 10, 2008
Two articles, one over the other on the same page in The Washington Post's April 10 edition, highlight the paper's chronic weakness for imprecise, even misleading language in Arab-Israeli coverage. | | ...More |
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April 7, 2008
 The New Statesman, a British political weekly magazine whose self-declared aim is to promote socialist ideas "among the educated and influential classes," is allowing its pages to be used as a platform for anti-Israel propaganda, replete with outright falsehoods. | | ...More |
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April 4, 2008
 Responding to Chicago Jewish leaders who challenged his refusal to accept Jewish sovereignty, Rev. James Wall, a longtime columnist for the Christian Century, distorts the historical record.
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April 4, 2008
 Little media focus has been given to ongoing UN abuses, including the Human Rights Council appointing anti-Israel zealots, preparations for "Durban II" and a resolution threating free speech. | | ...More |
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April 3, 2008
 Update: Although it never corrected its report claiming Israel denied travel permits to 50 percent or more of sick Gazans, Reuters is now reporting that Israel admitted 81 percent of these patients last year. | | ...More |
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April 1, 2008
 A front-page feature on April 1, 2008 in both the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune highlights the serious issue of Palestinian indoctrination with detailed examples of Hamas incitement in children’s television shows and in mosques. | | ...More |
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March 30, 2008
 CAMERA communication with the Washington Post prompted a correction on the status of the Western Wall in Judaism. The error and correction follow: | | ...More |
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March 28, 2008
 Jeff Halper (left) recently suggested that Israelis are contemplating a “final solution” in regards to the Palestinians at a recent Sabeel conference but other Jewish activists are questioning the organization’s rhetoric and agenda.
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“We are proud and happy, and everyone in [the eastern Jerusalem town of] Jabel Mukaber is proud of him.”
Umm Fadi, after her cousin Alaa Abu Dheim murdered 8 Jewish students at a Jerusalem seminary, quoted by AP.
“At this present juncture, I am opposed to armed struggle because we cannot succeed in it, but maybe in the future things will be different.”
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, interview with al-Dustur quoted on jpost.com.
“I know it's a great tradition of the British left to support Palestine, but when you come up against this question, you can feel the intelligence and balance leaving the hall with a shriek, and people getting into this endocrinal state about Israel...I know we're supposed to be grown up about it and not fling around accusations of anti-Semitism, but I don't see any other explanation. It's a secularised anti-Semitism.”
British writer Martin Amis, quoted in the Independent.
“Yes, I do understand. Maybe if I were in their place I would do the same thing.”
Palestinian Miram Ashour about Israel's response to rocket attacks, quoted in New York Times.
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CAMERA's monograph reviews many of the material errors in Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
