CAMERA http://www.camera.org/ en-us <![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST WATCH: Post Sees Israel's Birth Through Arab Eyes]]> The Washington Post ostensibly showcased Israel's 60th birthday with a top-center, page-one article. The article actually showcased a chronic distortion in Post Arab-Israeli coverage: filtering  the Jewish state through the fun house mirror of Palestinian Arab beliefs.
]]> 9 May 2008 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz Columnist Sacrifices Truth to Show IDF "Wrongdoing"]]> 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. ]]> 7 May 2008 <![CDATA[UPDATED: 'Last Refuge,' Latest Falsehood]]> 4 May 2008 <![CDATA[How and Why to Edit Wikipedia]]> 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.]]> 3 May 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Op-Ed in Jerusalem Post: "First, Refute the Defamation"]]> 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.]]> 28 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Op-Ed in Jewish Exponent: "Christian 'Peace' Group's Medieval-Style Hatred"]]> 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.]]> 28 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[Insisting on an Error: The Washington Post - Infallible, or Just in Denial?]]> -->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. ]]> 23 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Translates Letter from Israeli Author Slamming Ha'aretz]]> Irit Linor
CAMERA translates an April 2002 letter from Israeli author Irit Linor slamming Ha'aretz for its "vicious journalism" and "anti-Zionism." In April 2008, her criticism remains as valid as ever.
 
]]> 18 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[Wall Street Journal Reporters Award Palestinians Entire West Bank, E. Jerusalem]]> 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.

]]> 11 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: The Post Against Itself on Gaza, Carter]]> 10 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letter in Jerusalem Post on Roadblocks]]> 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."]]> 10 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[New Statesman Publishes Falsehoods by Palestinian Propagandist]]> 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.]]> 7 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[UN Human Rights Council Votes to Have Foxes Watch the Henhouse]]> 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. ]]> 4 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[Rev. Wall Errs, Again]]> 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.

]]> 4 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[Updated: Reuters Distorts on Gaza Border, Healthcare]]> 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.]]> 3 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[New York Times Discovers Palestinian Incitement]]> 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.]]> 1 Apr 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Elicits Washington Post Correction on Western Wall]]> CAMERA communication with the Washington Post prompted a correction on the status of the Western Wall in Judaism. The error and correction follow:]]> 30 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[Sabeel's Rhetoric Questioned by Jewish Peace Activists]]> 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.

]]> 28 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letter in Los Angeles Times on Gaza's borders]]> CAMERA's letter in the Los Angeles Times corrects a news article which wrongly reported that "Israel sealed Gaza's borders."]]> 27 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction on Gaza Electricity]]> Seven weeks after CAMERA first provided the Los Angeles Times details documenting an error about electricity cuts to the Gaza Strip, the paper today ran a correction.]]> 25 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[FREE 10-Day Trip to Israel for College Students]]> 24 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[Abbas the "Relative Moderate"]]> The Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas — moderate, or relative moderate? The Washington Post recently referred to Abbas' Fatah movement as "Hamas' relatively moderate rival." But "relative" to Hamas does not mean "moderate." ]]> 18 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[Methodists Invite Children Into Alternate Universe]]> A United Methodist Church children’s book “From Palestine to Seattle: Becoming Neighbors and Friends,” and the accompanying Sunday school teacher’s manual, invites children into an alternate universe in which Israeli concessions and withdrawals bring about an end to Palestinian violence. Sadly, no such universe exists. And in its upside down version of reality, the book portrays Israeli security checkpoints as the cause, not the result, of Palestinian violence.  ]]> 18 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[FoxNews Cites CAMERA on BBC's Fake Footage]]> Citing CAMERA, FoxNews tonight ran a report on the BBC's false claim that Israel had demolished the home of the terrorist who attacked a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem. In fact, the home has not been demolished, and the BBC later corrected the report.]]> 13 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[BBC Corrects False Report]]> On March 7, 2008 the BBC aired video of Israel destroying the home of the terrorist who had just murdered eight yeshiva students. But the house has not been demolished, and on March 13 the BBC corrected the report. ]]> 11 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Elicits Washington Times, New York Times Corrections]]> After being contacted by CAMERA, the newspapers corrected errors about violence in Gaza and Middle East news coverage, respectively.]]> 10 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letter in Los Angeles Times on Sabeel]]> The letter points out that "If Rev. Dr. Ateek's [left] approach to peacemaking is 'theologically correct,' as he asserts, then we must be living in the Middle Ages."]]> 7 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[Reuters Provides Hamas a Platform]]> "We bless the (Jerusalem) operation. It will not be the last," Hamas said in a statement following the terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav, a Jewish yeshiva in Western Jerusalem, as candy was handed out in celebration in the Gaza Strip. Just three days earlier, a Reuters headline on an article presenting Hamas terrorists as heroic warriors trumpeted, "Inspired by God, Hamas Fighters Battle On."]]> 6 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letter on Mideast Demographics in Washington Times]]> The letter asserts: "Your article 'Palestinians mull a majority' (Page 1, Feb. 27) notes, 'One group of Israeli researchers ... charge that the Palestinian census is riddled with mistakes.' However, it fails to explain why." The reasons are then listed.]]> 5 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[Media Project Anti-Israel Bias Onto UN Secretary General]]> The media readily conveyed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's condemnation of how Israel carried out its Gaza operation. But there is more to the story than meets the news consumer's eye.]]> 5 Mar 2008 <![CDATA[Selective Reporting by the BBC]]> The BBC apparently deems it unnewsworthy to inform its Web site readers about the European Union's condemnation of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's violent anti-Israel diatribe. At the same time, the Israel-related stories showcased on the BBC Web site present Israel in a continuing negative light.]]> 26 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Iranian President "Frequent Critic of Israel"]]> A president calls another country "a black and dirty microbe" and "a savage animal." When is that mere "criticism"? For the Washington Post, when the president is Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the other country is Israel. ]]> 25 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letter in San Antonio Express Refutes Apartheid Smear]]> The San Antonio Express published CAMERA's letter refuting a Feb. 15, 2008 op-ed by University of Texas professor Mansour O. El-Kikhia that portrayed Israel as an apartheid state.

]]> 21 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[The Mennonites' Mission]]> The Mennonite Central Committee assails Israel's legitimacy through the writings of its activists and through MCC-produced films about the Arab-Israeli conflict.]]> 20 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz Prints Hamas Op-Ed Full of Falsehoods]]> In a Ha'aretz Op-Ed, Hamas' Ahmed Yousef erases the terror group's involvement in suicide bombings and rocket attacks and grossly exaggerates Palestinian casualties. His false claims are contradicted by Ha'aretz's own reporting.]]> 17 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Methodist Manual Maligns Israel, Stereotypes Jews]]> The United Methodist Church has published a shamefully biased and inaccurate book about the Arab-Israeli conflict that portrays the Jewish people as too paranoid and psychologically damaged by the Holocaust to be trusted with self-determination.]]> 13 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Dvorkin Agonistes]]> CAMERA apparently got under the skin of former NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin — really under the skin — during its intensive campaign against NPR's pervasive anti-Israel bias. Years later, in a comic and incoherent piece in Salon.com, Dvorkin is still railing against CAMERA.]]> 13 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[The Fraudulent Scholarship of Professors Walt and Mearsheimer]]> "Israel Lobby" professors Walt and Mearsheimer charge that because of its alleged misdeeds Israel is an unworthy ally of the U.S., and cite as proof numerous seemingly damaging "quotations" from Israeli leaders. The problem is that all the quotations are from secondary sources or worse, and all are false. ]]> 11 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Elicits Caption Correction in New York Times]]> A caption accompanying a February 7, 2008 photograph of an Israeli family fleeing their Sderot home that had been hit by Palestinian rockets ultimately placed the blame on Israel.  The attack was characterized as "retaliation for an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza."

]]> 11 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Plan for Palestinian Police Force Seven Times Larger than Current Force ]]> Reuters reports that rebuilding Palestinian security forces may require up to 7 billion dollars beyond the current 7.4 billion dollar aid package promised at the Paris conference. This follows an article in the Jordan Times calling for a 50,000 person Palestinian police force. ]]> 10 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letters in Playboy Respond to Anti-Israel Column]]> The letters address falsehoods and distortions in Jonathan Tasini's one-sided, anti-Israel October 2007 Forum column. In a note appended to the letters, Playboy noted that CAMERA readers critiqued Tasini's article with a "deluge" of complaints.]]> 6 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Study: On Nation's Op-Ed Pages, Israel's Voice is Stifled]]> A 19-month CAMERA study of guest Op-Eds about the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times found that pro-Arab Op-Eds and/or those critical of Israel overwhelmingly outnumbered pro-Israel Op-Eds and/or those critical of Arabs. No Op-Ed by an Israeli official appeared, though there were four Op-Eds by Arab officials.]]> 5 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Study: The LA Times Op-Eds: Provocative? Yes. Balanced? No]]> 5 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Study: NY Times Op-Eds: Forum for Contentious Issues or One-Sided Advocacy?]]> 5 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Study: Washington Post Op-Eds: A 'Wide Range of Commentary'?]]> 5 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[The BBC and the Bombers in Dimona]]> The BBC is once again demonstrating its lack of impartiality by blaming Israel — this time for provoking the Palestinian terrorist bombing that killed an elderly Israeli woman and critically injured her husband and 37 others. Watch the following news clip from BBC America.]]> 5 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[New Film Section Includes Reviews and Recommendations]]> CAMERA's Web site includes two new "film" sections devoted to documentaries about Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first, "Film Reviews," includes reviews by CAMERA staff of recent documentaries, while the second," Film Suggestions," includes lists of recommended films. Both sections can be accessed from the left-column menu. ]]> 4 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[The Robert Malley – Arafat Connection]]> Robert Malley, a frequent commentator on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and a possible member of a Barack Obama administration, grew up in a world in which Yasir Arafat and Leonid Brezhnev were heroes, and Israeli leaders were demons. Has he outgrown his upbringing? The evidence would argue perhaps not.]]> 2 Feb 2008 <![CDATA[Palestinian Workers' Strike Causes Fuel Shortages, LA Times Myopia]]> A Palestinian workers' strike caused fuel shortages at hospitals and water plants, but the LA Times' Richard Boudreaux blamed only Israel and ignored its pledge not to interfere with food, medicine and fuel.]]> 30 Jan 2008 <![CDATA[Second Gaza: Time's Tim McGirk Creates a Virtual Reality ]]> In Time magazine's virtual world, Gaza has no Qassams, is surrounded by Israel and a concrete wall, and the U.S. and Israel urge the beating of women protesters — and this alternate reality is passed off as news.]]> 29 Jan 2008