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The transfer of syrian chemical weapons to terrorist groups is one of Israel's many concerns regarding the upheaval in Syria.
An anonymous BBC source in Lebanon says that Israel is "laughing" at the upheaval on its northern border, and Beirut correspondent Jim Muir concurs, explaining that it is "hard to imagine Israel not being happy." But one doesn't need a vivid imagination to understand Israeli concerns.
  
Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
 
A groundbreaking CAMERA monograph documents how The New York Times holds Israel to a discriminatory standard, omits context and shows a clear preference for the Palestinian perspective.
 
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BOOK REVIEW: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War
May 23, 2013
Educators teaching students about Islam, the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict often turn for help to academics who promote an anti-Israel agenda that misinforms students.
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13-Year Controversy Over Al Dura Incident Continues
May 22, 2013
An Israeli government review committee concluded that a Sept. 2000 France 2 broadcast alleging Israeli soldiers killed Mohammed Al Dura -- a claim which spawned intense hatred and violence against Israel -- had no basis in fact. This confirms what many skeptics have been contending all along, but has not laid the issue to rest.
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Meg Ryan's Publicist: Ryan Didn't Boycott Israel
May 22, 2013
Days after the Toronto Star unequivocally corrected that Bruce Willis "never boycotted Israel," Stephen Huvane, publicist for Hollywood star Meg Ryan, tells CAMERA: "Meg Ryan has not participated in any boycott against Israel."
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Newseum Puts Honors for Terrorists On Hold: CAMERA Chronology
May 21, 2013
CAMERA was instrumental in convincing the Newseum, Washington, D.C.’s journalism museum, to “reevaluate” its decision to add the names of two Hamas members to its “Journalists’ Memorial.”
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Robert Mackey Cherry-Picks James Fallows on Al Dura
May 21, 2013
Not for the first time, New York Times news blogger Robert Mackey distorted the views of fellow journalists by cherry-picking quotations and presenting them out of context. The latest victim (aside from Israel, of course) is The Atlantic's James Fallows.
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BACKGROUNDER: Mohammed Al Dura
May 20, 2013
UPDATED: More than 12 years after France 2 aired a report claiming that Israeli soldiers shot dead 12-year-old Mohammed Al Dura,  an Israeli government review committee has concluded that there was no evidence for those claims and that the report was used as propaganda that provoked violence and hatred against Israel and contributed to the delegitimization of the Jewish state.  CAMERA sorts out the claims and counter-claims. 
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No Child's Play: NBC's False Figures for Detained Palestinian Minors
May 20, 2013
Earlier, NBC's Lawahez Jabari incorrectly reported that there is just one West Bank luxury hotel. When it comes to the much more complex and important subject of Palestinian minors in Israel jails, she's in way over her head.
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Toronto Star Corrects: Bruce Willis Never Boycotted Israel
May 18, 2013
CAMERA prompts a Toronto Star correction stating that Bruce Willis never boycotted Israel. The paper's public editor details how the reporter was misled by a pro-BDS Web site, and describes CAMERA's role in setting the record straight.
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Ha'aretz Corrects: No Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount
May 16, 2013
CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction today of the latest examples of "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation." Two articles in the English edition last week falsely reported that Jews are permitted to pray on the Temple Mount.
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Roll Call Publishes CAMERA Letter Calling for Closer Scrutiny of J-Street Endorsement
May 16, 2013
When the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call recently took J Street's "pro-peace, pro-Israel" slogan at face value, and implied that the group was on the cutting edge of support for a "two-state solution," CAMERA corrected the record.
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The Economist Squeezes Out the Truth
May 16, 2013
In a May 4th article in print and online, The Economist inverts the facts, casting a Palestinian attempt to take over land in the West Bank by erecting illegal structures as an Israeli land grab.
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CAMERA Prompts New York Times Correction on Gender Segregation
May 15, 2013
After communication with CAMERA staff, the New York Times corrected its erroneous claim that there is a "requirement" of gender segregation on buses passing through ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.
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On Newseum Scandal, Open Zion Destroys Months-Old Straw Man
May 13, 2013
By pretending that all criticism of Newseum hinges on the idea that Hamas members were legitimate targets, Raphael Magarik avoid seriously dealing with Newseum's decision to consider employees of a violent, hate-peddling terrorist organization honorable "journalists."
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Ha'aretz in English: Jews Can Pray on the Temple Mount
May 12, 2013
In the latest "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," the English edition falsely reports that Jewish prayer is permitted on the Temple Mount. This is an egregious error given that only Muslims are permitted to pray at the site.
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Ha'aretz, But Not AFP, Publishes Correction On Israeli Stone-Throwers
May 12, 2013
CAMERA's Israel office prompts a Ha'aretz correction on a photo caption which wrongly identified Israeli stone-throwers as Palestinians. AFP, the agency which supplied the erroneous caption, has yet to publish a correction.
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CAMERA Prompts International Herald Tribune Correction on Golan Heights
May 9, 2013
CAMERA's Israel office elicits a correction in the International Herald Tribune today regarding a photo caption which wrongly identified a Golan Heights tourist lookout as a military training zone.
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AFP Misidentifies Israeli Stone-Throwers as Palestinian
May 7, 2013
Not for the first time, AFP botches captions about Israeli-Palestinian violence. In an unprecedented twist, however, the newest flubbed captions whitewash Israeli violence, misidentifying Israeli stone-throwers as Palestinian.
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CAMERA Letter Published in the Baltimore Sun
May 3, 2013
Maryland's chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations bashed Israel in a Baltimore Sun commentary. CAMERA responded by exposing both their false analogies and CAIR as a Muslim Brotherhood spin-off and an unindicted co-conspirator in America's largest terrorism funding trial to date.
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Tel Aviv is the Capital of Israel, and Other Media "Facts"
May 3, 2013
A satirical Op-Ed shows how those all-too-frequent errors about Israel can skew the public's understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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French Court Ruling Affirms Legality of Israeli Occupation
May 2, 2013
A French court reaffirmed that Israel's occupation of the West Bank is legal. But you probably heard nothing about it.
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Updated: The New York Times Continues Its Irresponsible Reporting on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
April 30, 2013
The New York Times provides two more examples of the double standards it uses when reporting about the Arab-Israeli conflict, in a) a headline that ignores the Jewish victim of Palestinian terrorism and b) pejorative editorializing about Israel.
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Updated: CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager Stonewalling Like Nixon
April 30, 2013
Updated May 2, 2013. Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS News, is acting more like a politician trying to hide the truth than a journalist reporting it.
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CAMERA Prompts Wall Street Journal Correction on Aid to PA
April 26, 2013
CAMERA commends the Wall Street Journal for its correction of an article that misled on the status of payments to the Palestinian Authority.
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The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus, Corrected Half-Way ‘Round the World
April 26, 2013
Washington Post defense and security correspondent Walter Pincus writes often about Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons. He doesn't think highly of close U.S.-Israel ties and gives Iran the benefit of the doubt. His columns also generate corrections, the most recent, on April 25, counters Pincus' spin.
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CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Correction on Prisoner Samer Issawi
April 24, 2013
Ha'aretz clarifies that Israeli officials were shocked by Samer Issawi's comparison of himself to Holocaust victims. They did not, as stated in the English edition, agree with it. How long will anonymous translators continue to invent with impunity?
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UPDATED: Wall Street Journal Misinforms on Money Transfers to PA
April 16, 2013
Readers told that the United States and Israel cut off money transfers to the Palestinian Authority would be forgiven for believing that the United States and Israel are not transferring money to the Palestinian Authority. But they would be wrong. (See update noting WSJ correction.)
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Bigotry, The NYT and Israel
April 12, 2013
Times indifference to extreme anti-Israel bigotry in Palestinian culture continues to help encourage more of the same, all the while the paper loudly deplores far lesser instances of Israeli prejudice. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. seems unaware of the damage to the paper's reputation.
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Irish Academics Boycott Israel, Academic Integrity and Common Sense
April 11, 2013
The Teachers Union of Ireland unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the complete cessation of cultural and academic exchange with Israel, a boycott of professors, researchers and students for no reason other than their nationality.
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Controversy at Cardozo No Surprise in Light of Carter's History
April 10, 2013
The controversy surrounding a peace award offered to Jimmy Carter by an academic journal at Benjamin M. Cardozo Law School in New York City is understandable given the former president's antipathy toward Israel.
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LA Times, Gaza Kitchen Cooking Up Falsehoods
April 9, 2013
In an enthusiastic review of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey, the LA Times' Carol J. Williams, together with the cookbook authors Laila Haddad and Maggie Schmitt, brew up false charges against Israel.
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Weekend Roundup of Ha'aretz Errors
April 7, 2013
Following two commendable corrections last week, Ha'aretz unfortunately continues to slip up with shoddy translations and sloppy reporting. Weekend errors pertain to Palestinian deaths and Holocaust Remembrance Day caption.
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CAMERA Elicits Ha'aretz Clarification on Settlements
April 5, 2013
For the second consecutive day, CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction in Ha'aretz. Today's clarification concerns a mistranslation which introduced the false claim that IDF officers must spend a week protecting illegal outposts.
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Presbyterian Author Omits Crucial Information About College’s Founders
April 5, 2013
Presbyterian writer Rev. Ben Daniel missed some important facts about the founders of Zaytuna College in Berkley, California in his recent book.
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CAMERA Prompts Corrections on Gideon Levy Column
April 4, 2013
In response to communication from CAMERA, Ha'aretz today commendably corrects, in Hebrew and English, Gideon Levy's false claim that according to Amnesty International "only 92 Palestinian fighters" were killed in Cast Lead.
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CAMERA Prompts USA Today Correction on Palestinians in Israel
April 2, 2013
CAMERA commends USA Today for its correction of an article which grossly understated the number of Palestinians entering Israel for work and medical treatment.
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Injured Toddler, Soldiers Lost in Ha'aretz Translation
April 2, 2013
Ha'aretz's English print edition tidies up "Land Day" events, deleting the Hebrew edition's detailed coverage of Palestinian stone-throwing and the resulting injuries of a toddler and soldiers.
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New York Times Promotes (Actual) Palestinian Talking Point
March 29, 2013
New York Times journalists know with certainty that Abbas wants to restart peace talks because they saw a Palestinian list of talking points suggesting he say as much.
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Columnists Fail 'Breath-a-lyzer' Test for Op-Eds on Obama's Israel Trip
March 29, 2013
Fareed Zakaria and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. omit something from their commentaries on President Obama's Israel trip: Palestinian responsibility for lack of a "two-state solution."
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Ian Lustick Needs A New Map (And Flare Gun)
March 28, 2013
Ian Lustick keeps depicting Islamist groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood as reasonable organizations. Events keep proving him wrong, but Lustick's analysis remains unchanged.
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The Lancet's Negativity Toward Israel
March 25, 2013
The British medical journal, The Lancet, continues to publish unbalanced editorials exhibiting hostility toward the Jewish state.
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New York Times Magazine Cheerleads for Terror
March 20, 2013
Painting a sympathetic portrait of violent demonstrators, The New York Times Magazine 8,000-word cover story asks “Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?” With all the cheerleading in the article, it seems the New York Times hopes so.
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Ha'aretz Corrects: Palestine Not Full-Fledged U.N. Member
March 19, 2013
CAMERA's Israel office has prompted a Ha'aretz correction today on a story in last week's print edition which wrongly stated that the United Nations recognized Palestine as a full-fledged member.
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New York Times March Madness
March 19, 2013

The Times tilt toward extreme, journalistically indefensible portrayals of Israel continues with a banner day on March 17. On the front page, a story distorted the realities concerning Jewish and Arab construction in Jerusalem. In the Sunday magazine an 8000-word piece romanticized violence and irredentism.

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NPR's Ailing Coverage of Kidney Care in Gaza
March 19, 2013
Larry Abramson misses the primary cause for Gaza's medical shortages: the Hamas-Fatah rivalry. If a Palestinian news site can report WHO findings, even when they exonerate Israel, why can't NPR?
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Ban Ki Moon Wrong About Israeli Settlements
March 15, 2013
When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insists that Israeli settlements are illegal, as he did again recently, he's not only wrong but he also misleads the news media and undermines the organization he heads. A CAMERA Op-Ed in The Washington Times shows how the secretary-general errs.
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Human Rights Watch Goes to Bat for Hamas's Al Aqsa TV
March 14, 2013
 
Journalists, academics and the public look to human rights groups for guidance in assigning responsibility for the violence and misery inflicted on civilians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But objective information is not what they get.
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Terrorist or Militant? Washington Post Update
March 14, 2013
Many news media continue to use the words terrorist and militant interchangeably, despite their different meanings. When they do use them properly, they are more likely to describe American rather than Israeli victims. Recent Washington Post examples demonstrate such journalistic inconsistency and inaccuracy.
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Gaza Photo Controversy: Corrections and Lessons
March 13, 2013
Four months after Gaza-Israel fighting, media again backtrack on reports which had unequivocally blamed Israel for the death of a Palestinian child. The AP and Washington Post issue corrections on Omar Masharawi. The LA Times does not.
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Updated: Ha'aretz Upgrades 'Palestine' to Full U.N. Member
March 12, 2013
In the latest "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," Ha'aretz's English translators upgrade Palestine to a "full-fledged member" of the United Nations.
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Ha'aretz Headline Errs on Australian Report About Zygier
March 10, 2013
What do you get when you mix together a murky spy story, an official Australian report, and Ha'aretz translators and editors whose record on precise reporting is less than stellar? Answer: Another erroneous front-page headline.
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CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Correction on Ethiopian Birth Control Story
March 7, 2013
CAMERA's Israel staff prompts corrections on Ha'aretz's coverage of the Ethiopian birth control controversy. Last week's English edition falsely reported that an Israeli official confirmed that Ethiopian women may have received coerced injections.
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Other Features 



CAMERA Timeline: April 2013
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C-SPAN Watch

Susan SwainWashington Journal, a daily phone-in program, is a platform for the defamation of Israel and Jews. C-SPAN executives Susan Swain and Rob Kennedy, like network founder Brian Lamb before them, stonewall public complaint. …More

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C-SPAN Watch





REVISTA: Spanish-Language Media Analysis




PRESS-Pectiva: Hebrew-Language Media Analysis

 


Eyes On Israel:
CAMERA's Free Media Curriculum
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Luntz/CAMERA Poll Affirms Strong American Jewish Support for Israel
Some news media accounts have tended to amplify a vocal fringe in the American Jewish community that espouses extreme views and policies far out of the mainstream. This poll clarifies what American Jews actually feel and believe.


CAMERA Monographs

Dershowitz The Case for Moral Clarity





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Hamas Charter

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Why has Hamas never ceased to target Jewish civilians within Israel even after Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip more than three years ago? The answer lies in its governing charter.

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