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0 CAMERA http://www.camera.org/ en-us The latest articles from Camera Copyright 2010 Camera.org 3/15/2010 11:27:19 AM 20 <![CDATA[AP’s Historical Revisionism on Jerusalem ]]> -->AP's ahistorical claim that conflict over eastern Jerusalem began only when Israel captured the area from Jordan in 1967 has yet to be corrected. In fact, the conflict raged in 1948, and even earlier. ]]> Friday, March 12, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Roundup of Information on PC(USA) Israel Debate]]>

The Presbyterian Church (USA) is preparing to debate a number of proposals related to the Arab-Israeli conflict at its General Assembly in early July. Here is a roundup of recent developments.

]]> Thursday, March 11, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[CMEP Disguises Anti-Israel Propaganda as Lenten Reflection]]> Churches for Middle East Peace is distributing Lenten study materials that put Israel in the seat of judgment in the weeks before Easter.]]> Wednesday, March 10, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz Flubs the Facts on Arabs in the Knesset]]> Ha'aretz again deceives readers, now claiming there are no Arab Knesset members when there are currently 12, including, for instance, Ibrahim Sarsur.]]> Wednesday, March 10, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Staffer Rebuts Israel Apartheid Week on National Radio Program]]> Wednesday, March 10, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Presbyterian Peacemakers Offer Contradictory Messages About Jewish Sovereignty]]>

Presbyterian Peacemakers affirm Israel's right to exist in one document, but attack Zionism in another.

]]> Wednesday, March 10, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN March – April 2010]]> Monday, March 01, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[James Carroll Misrepresents Jerusalem Evictions Story]]> James Carroll portrays the evictions of Palestinian famillies in Jerusalem as evidence of creeping annexation by Israel ignoring the fact that they failed to pay their rent.]]> Wednesday, February 24, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[BDS, Academic/Cultural Boycott of Israel, and Omar Barghouti]]> As anti-Israel extremists prepare to bring their propaganda campaign to campuses across North America under the rubric of "Israeli Apartheid Week," CAMERA analyzes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement and its goal of dismantling the Jewish state.]]> Wednesday, February 24, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[BBC and New York Times Omit Coverage of Palestinian Corruption Story ]]> The recent accusations by a Palestinian anti-corruption official of rampant financial improprieties are ignored by the BBC and the NY Times]]> Tuesday, February 23, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Responds to Galloway Coverage in Boston Paper]]>

One week after British Member of Parliament George Galloway was able to portray himself as a man of peace in a local Boston newspaper, CAMERA revealed the man's role as an apologist for murderers and dictators in the Middle East.

]]> Friday, February 12, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Time's McGirk Sides With Opponents of Jerusalem Archeology]]> Tim McGirk, Time Magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief, has once again replaced objective reporting with advocacy journalism, this time promoting opponents of archeological excavations in the City of David in an article entitled Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble.]]> Wednesday, February 10, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[The AJC's of a Failure to Correct Gaza Refugee Errors]]> The Atlanta Journal Constitution has failed to correct two straightforward factual errors concerning refugees in Gaza despite the fact the Palestinian government and UNRWA provide contradictory information.]]> Wednesday, February 03, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN January – February 2010 ]]> Wednesday, February 03, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: C-SPAN's Washington Journal Caller Problem]]> A handful of frequent callers to C-SPAN's Washington Journal consistently spew invective and falsehoods against Jews and Israel. This vilification is frequently enabled  if not positively encouraged  by C-SPAN's receptivity, especially that of the hosts.]]> Wednesday, February 03, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Cloud of Questions Over Ha'aretz's White Phosphorous Story]]> Ha'aretz's most prominent headline and lead story today claim an Israeli government reports says that two army officers were disciplined "for using white phosphorous." In fact, the report said the reprimand was for unjustified artillery fire.]]> Monday, February 01, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Stephen Sizer Complains to Police About Blogger ]]> An Anglican Vicar who has been given a platform for his views by the tyrannical regime in Iran has complained to the police about a blogger in Great Britain. (Feb. 3 Correction)]]> Monday, February 01, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Washington Post Also Corrects "Jewish-Only Roads" Falsehood]]> The Washington Post joined others in correcting the false statement that Israel has a "practice of reserving some roads for Jews." Roads are "open to all Israeli citizens and to other nationals, regardless of religious background," the Post clarified.]]> Thursday, January 28, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Anna Baltzer - Jewish Defamer of Israel]]> Anna Baltzer is a Jew who makes false charges against Israel. This puts her in high demand as a speaker at churches and universities who relish a Jew condemning Israel.]]> Monday, January 25, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[BBC Panorama Distorts the Facts About Jerusalem]]> In a Panorama documentary about Jerusalem, viewers learn less about demographics, demolitions and the path to peace than they do about BBC's own biases about Jerusalem.]]> Thursday, January 21, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Amanpour's Impulse: Smear Israel]]>  CNN's Christiane Amanpour reveals a hostile view of Israel, injecting gratuitious, false claims about it into an argument between two guests discussing an unrelated subject.]]> Thursday, January 21, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[Henry Siegman Promotes Forceful Intervention Against Israel]]> Pro-Palestinian advocate, Henry Siegman, calls for "forceful outside intervention" to compel Israel to accept a Palestinian state. ]]> Monday, January 18, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN's Washington Journal a Platform for Anti-Semitism]]> Washington Journal, C-SPAN's daily public affairs interview program, has become a megaphone for anti-Jewish, anti-Israel conspiracy theorists. January 4th segment with former CIA staffer Michael Scheuer, epitomizes the problem. ]]> Friday, January 08, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA["Jewish Only Road" Falsehood Corrected]]>

After wrongly referring to "Israel's practice of reserving some roads for Jews," the AP corrected its wording. But not before one newspaper published the erroneous language.]]> Tuesday, January 05, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[BBC Removes Misinformation on US, Israel, Geneva Convention]]> As a result of CAMERA's formal complaint to the BBC, the British media giant removed from its Web site major distortions about the US position on Israeli settlements.]]> Tuesday, January 05, 2010 +01:00 <![CDATA[After Detroit Terror Attack Fails, Diane Sawyer Profiles Israel]]> Following the failed terror attack on Northwest Airlines, ABC's Diane Sawyer and Pierre Thomas falsely charged that Israeli security, while effective, profiles Muslims. In fact, Israel profiles for terrorism, not for race, religion or ethnicity.]]> Thursday, December 31, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[On the Lookout for Bias at NPR]]> Although NPR coverage of Israel is not as slanted as it once was, recent examples of bias, like the piece on illegal construction in East Jerusalem by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, show that old habits die hard. ]]> Thursday, December 31, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Book Review: "The Invention of the Jewish People"]]> When it comes to undermining the legitimacy of the Jewish state, there is no thesis too absurd to be published. Such is the case with "The Invention of the Jewish People" a book by Shlomo Sand who teaches French history at Tel Aviv University. ]]> Wednesday, December 30, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[NY Times Runs Puff Piece on Anti-Israel Comic Book]]> If Patrick Cockburn and Joe Sacco have one thing in common, it is their outspoken antagonism toward Israel. And despite this, or perhaps because of this, the New York Times enlisted the former to review the latter's new anti-Israel comic book, Footnotes in Gaza. ]]> Wednesday, December 30, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN Watch]]> Wednesday, December 30, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN September – October 2009]]> Wednesday, December 30, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN July – August 2009]]> Wednesday, December 30, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN November 2008 – June 2009]]> Wednesday, December 30, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Letter to Jimmy Carter Urges Action After Apology ]]> CAMERA has sent a letter to Jimmy Carter after the former president apologized to the Jewish community for anything he may have done to stigmatize Israel. CAMERA's letter called for concrete actions to go along with his apology, specifically, the correction of recent false charges. ]]> Thursday, December 24, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[<EM>Aftonbladet</EM> Silent on Jordan's Organ Trafficking]]> Aftonbladet's Jan Helin has been unresponsive about whether his paper would cover organ trafficking in Jordan after its notorious piece on Israel. Is the Swedish paper uninterested without the Israel angle? ]]> Wednesday, December 23, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[LA Times Op-Ed Calls For Dismantlement of Jewish State]]> The Los Angeles Times publishes another Op-Ed calling for the dismantlement of the Jewish state. Jonathan Kuttab's piece makes ludicrous assumptions about the fate of a Jewish minority in a "binational state."]]> Monday, December 21, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Gaza's Blue Baby Syndrome and Brittain's Bad Blood]]> Judging by the distortions and omissions in her recent column, journalist and activist Victoria Brittain's ostensible concern about methemoglobinemia in Gaza is less important than her desire to assail Israel. ]]> Tuesday, December 15, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Technology Mag, IEEE Spectrum, Veers into ME Politics]]> A journal of engineering science runs a politically tinged cover story on Gaza's power plant.]]> Thursday, December 10, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[A Formal Letter to Justice Goldstone]]> UPDATED: CAMERA has received a "response" from Justice Goldstone regarding our Nov. 17 letter requesting answers to specific questions addressing the substance of the Goldstone Report.]]> Monday, December 07, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[New Yorker's Lawrence Wright Proffers Palestinian Narrative]]> While claiming to recount "What really happened during the Israeli attacks" on Gaza, Wright relies on a biased version of the facts, marring an otherwise informative piece on the January 2009 conflict. ]]> Saturday, December 05, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz's Ode to an 'Apartheid Road']]> CAMERA photographs Palestinian private cars, taxis, buses, trucks and pedestrians on Route 505 in the West Bank, dubbed "an exemplary apartheid road -- for Jews only" by Ha'aretz's Noam Ben-Zeev.]]> Tuesday, November 24, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Peace Activists Host Speaker Who Demonizes Israel]]> Activists from Watertown Town Citizens for Environmental Safety in Watertown, Mass. recently played host to Mohammed Omer, a Palestinian journalist who demonizes Israel.]]> Saturday, November 21, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Note to Media: Gilo Is in Jerusalem]]>

Yesterday, Israel approved the building of 900 homes in its capital, a move opposed by the United States, and incorrectly reported by some media outlets which described Gilo as in the West Bank.

]]> Wednesday, November 18, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Roger Cohen Errs on Settlements and Barrier]]> "[F]acts are hard," writes New York Times columnist Roger Cohen in the International Herald Tribune today. Facts are hard for Cohen, who errs on settlements and the security barrier.]]> Tuesday, November 17, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Analyst Guest on Israel is Real]]>

CAMERA analyst Dexter Van Zile discussed the refusal of mainline peacemakers to address hostility toward Israel and Jews in the Middle East during a recent radio interview on WSMN-AM in Nashua, New Hampshire.

]]> Monday, November 16, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Analyst at Boston College]]> CAMERA Analyst Dexter Van Zile spoke at Boston College on April 6, 2009. Van Zile spoke about anti-Zionism in mainline Protestant churches in the U.S.]]> Friday, November 13, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: Gale Cengage Encyclopedia Uses Falsehoods to Equate Zionism and Racism]]> Thursday, November 12, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[Carter, Goldstone and Gaza ]]> In an Op-Ed in the International Herald Tribune, Jimmy Carter enthusiastically endorses Goldstone's Report, grossly inflating the extent of destruction and the number of displaced Gazans, among other errors which require correction.]]> Wednesday, November 11, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: Norwegian University Votes Down Anti-Israel Boycott]]> UPDATED: Nov. 12, 2009  The board of  the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) at Trondheim unanimously rejected a proposal for a cultural/academic boycott of Israel. ]]> Thursday, November 05, 2009 +01:00 <![CDATA[At LA Times Bilin Stone-Throwing is Nonviolent]]>

In his article today about the allegedly peaceful and nonviolent Bilin demonstrations, Richard Boudreaux of the Los Angeles Times discounts the rock-throwers who have injured some 200 Israeli soldiers and border policemen.]]> Wednesday, November 04, 2009 +01:00