November 3, 2009
  CAMERA lists and describes some of the many examples of factual errors and double standards in the Goldstone Report. The piece continues to be updated with additional information. | | ...More |
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November 21, 2009
 Activists from Watertown Town Citizens for Environmental Safety in Watertown, Mass. recently played host to Mohammed Omer, a Palestinian journalist who demonizes Israel. | | ...More |
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November 18, 2009
 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.
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November 17, 2009
 Following Justice Richard Goldstone's public statements at Brandeis University on November 5, we sent the following letter to him requesting answers to several specific questions. | | ...More |
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November 17, 2009
 "[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. | | ...More |
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November 16, 2009
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. | | ...More |
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November 12, 2009
Gale Cengage turned to a radical anti-Zionist — a man who has argued that suicide bombers are "patriots" and the Jewish state is "Hitlerite" — to write an encyclopedia article on Zionism. The results were predictable. | | ...More |
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November 11, 2009
 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. | | ...More |
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November 5, 2009
 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. | | ...More |
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November 4, 2009
 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. | | ...More |
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November 2, 2009
 The Daily Show features a segment with Palestinian activist Mustafa Barghouti and anti-Israel extremist Anna Baltzer defaming Israel. | | ...More |
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October 29, 2009
Amnesty International's Troubled Waters – Palestinians denied fair access to water, recycles old and false anti-Israel charges, condemning Israel's supposed use of Palestinian water. But, in fact, Palestinians are using Israeli water. Typically, Amnesty also claims that Israeli settlements have luxurious pools while Palestinians are parched. Again, Amnesty is dead wrong – Palestinians have pools galore, including this one in Jenin, shown in the photo at left. | | ...More |
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October 21, 2009
 Ha'aretz's Amira Hass yesterday was honored with a prestigious award for her "pursuit of the truth." But her extensive coverage of the Samouni family deaths demonstrates a practice of reporting interviewees' contradictory and discredited claims at face value. | | ...More |
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October 20, 2009
 Human Rights Watch, the NGO that has become more famous for its obsessive attempts to delegitimize Israel than for its stated mission to promote global human rights, is becoming less and less credible. Now, even its founder and former chairman, Robert Bernstein, has publicly dissociated himself from that NGO's agenda. | | ...More |
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October 15, 2009
 Scandanavia's largest newspaper printed libels in August charging Israel plunders and trafficks organs from Palestinians — though editor Jan Helin admits they have no evidence for the story. Nevertheless, none of the many factual errors and inventions have been corrected. Instead, the Aftonbladet lies have spread unchecked to Middle East media and Web sites in ugly permutations. | | ...More |
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October 14, 2009
A group of Presbyterian peacemakers is promoting anti-Israel incitement from a number of sources including Al Manar, a Hezbollah-controlled television station. | | ...More |
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October 13, 2009
 In a September 22, 2009 appearance on Janet Parshall's America, CAMERA analyst Dexter Van Zile recounts some of the problems with the Goldstone Report, which gave unwarranted credence to Hamas' claims of Israeli wrongdoing. | | ...More |
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October 9, 2009
 The author may not have meant it to be so, but Adrian Blomfield’s recent article in the British Telegraph about tensions in Jerusalem could serve as a “How-To” guide for anti-Israel bias. It seems all the elements are there to skew public understanding of recent events in Israel’s capital. | | ...More |
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October 9, 2009
 Israeli commentators are sounding the alarm on the potentially devastating consequences of the Goldstone report on the stability of the situation in the West Bank. Outside of Israel, the media has fallen behind on evolving events. | | ...More |
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October 7, 2009
 The New York Times' Magazine feature "Can the Muppets Make Friends in on the West Bank?" (October 4) misleads readers about the toxic nature of Palestinian television for children, which has gone so far as to teach its audience to want to "slaughter" Jews. | | ...More |
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October 6, 2009
 On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, The Washington Post gave Prof. Stephen Walt a platform to reiterate the anti-Israel conspiracy theory advanced in his 2007 book The Israel Lobby, a belief roundly rejected by many of his colleagues and reviewers. The question is, why? | | ...More |
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October 2, 2009
 Gideon Levy thinks the UN's Goldstone report was a favor to Israel. He also claims Israel is treated too leniently by the world and that criticism of the Goldstone report is just mudslinging. | | ...More |
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October 1, 2009
The editors of a prominent Catholic magazine, America, have used the Goldstone Report and the Mishnah Torah to charge Israel with war crimes while giving short shrift to the sins of Hamas. | | ...More |
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September 29, 2009
 The Op-Ed discusses misplaced terminology in news stories, such as the frequent but questionable use of the word "moderate" to describe the Fatah party and leaders. | | ...More |
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September 27, 2009
 In contrast to many papers, The New York Times signaled disregard for a major address by Israel's Prime Minister, burying it at the end of a story by Neil MacFarquhar. | | ...More |
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September 25, 2009
 CAMERA staff prompted the following correction today at the International Herald Tribune concerning the number of Palestinian casualties from last winter's fighting in the Gaza Strip: | | ...More |
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September 21, 2009
 Tamar Sternthal, director of CAMERA's Israel office, addressed the Ninth Annual International Conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism on Sept. 9. Sternthal spoke on "Hamas' and Hezbollah's News Media Strategy." | | ...More |
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September 21, 2009
 Already months before the Goldstone Commission Report was published, commissioner Desmond Travers had made up his mind that something is rotten, even murderous, in the Israeli psyche. | | ...More |
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September 21, 2009
The summer of 2009 proved to be a season of discontent for anti-Israel activists in North America. | | ...More |
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September 17, 2009
 Critics of the Goldstone Commission have highlighted a letter showing that commission member Christine Chinkin had preconceived notions of Israeli guilt. The letter also reveals a tenuous grasp on the facts. | | ...More |
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September 17, 2009
 The UN's Goldstone Report, which alleges Israeli war crimes, mangled the evidence it supposedly considered, making its conclusions foregone, and leaving its credibility shredded. | | ...More |
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September 16, 2009
 The U.N.'s Goldstone mission deemed Khaled and Kawthar Abed Rabbo "credible and reliable witnesses," yet the couple contradict each other in their testimony as well earlier sworn accounts given to NGOs. | | ...More |
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September 14, 2009
 Former Congressman James Traficant, fresh out of federal prison after serving a sentence for bribery and racketeering, is exercising his new-found freedom to pursue his "grudges," with Israel topping the list. | | ...More |
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September 2, 2009
In response to criticism of a "Boycott-Israel" Op-Ed by radical anti-Israel professor Neve Gordon, the editor defends the decision to publish Gordon's screed, asserting that he would have published a submission from Hitler as well. | | ...More |
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September 2, 2009
 Op-Ed writer Saif Al-Islam El-Qaddafi wrongly claims that "There was not ... any official reception" in Libya for convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi. Video evidence proves otherwise. | | ...More |
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September 1, 2009
 Amnesty International's report on Cast Lead accuses Israel of illegally using White Phosphorus in Gaza. Israel has responded to the accusation. | | ...More |
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August 25, 2009
 Israeli politicians are taking sides on a controversial proposal by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. So is the BBC, which misleadingly cast the proposal as an "Arab diplomat ban." | | ...More |
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August 25, 2009
 The Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a balanced resolution about the Arab-Israeli conflict that calls on Lutherans to learn about the perspectives of both Israelis and Palestinians.
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August 23, 2009
 Attacks by Arabs against Jews in Israel pre-dates Israeli settlements, pre-dates Israel's so-called "occupation," and pre-dates the establishment of the State of Israel. On the 80th anniversary of brutal massacres in Hebron and Safed (Gregorian calendar), CAMERA documents the oft-neglected history of Arab violence in pre-state Palestine. | | ...More |
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August 21, 2009
 The LA Times published an Op-Ed calling for boycott, divestment and and sanctions against Israel by Neve Gordon, a radical Ben Gurion professor and veteran defamer of Israel. | | ...More |
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August 21, 2009
 Christiane Amanpour's CNN Special Generation Islam was supposed to explore the battle for the "hearts and minds" of young Muslims, especially in Afghanistan and Gaza. Unfortunately it was instead the usual Amanpour propaganda, especially in the second hour, where the subject might have been Gaza but the target was clearly Israel. | | ...More |
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August 19, 2009
 Omission of basic information often figures more prominently in a biased news account than does the reporting of errors as fact. The Washington Post's "Obama Optimistic About Mideast Peace" provides a textbook example. | | ...More |
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August 14, 2009
 With the Toronto Star and Time Magazine correcting a hoax quote, and a feature story in the Toronto paper, the falsehood is wiped from the record. (But not all corrections are created equal.) | | ...More |
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August 14, 2009
 Despite a plea by Nora Carmi from the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, the United Church of Canada voted down proposals to boycott Israel.
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August 13, 2009
 The god that inheres in Naim Ateek's commentary about the Arab-Israeli conflict is obsessed with Jewish sin and blind to the sins of Israel's adversaries. | | ...More |
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August 13, 2009
 The New York Times hailed the new members of the Fatah Central Committee as pragmatic. Israeli interrogations of terrorists during the Second Intifada suggest otherwise. | | ...More |
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August 12, 2009
 The media has long promoted Fatah — in contrast to Hamas — as the party of Palestinian political moderates seeking peace with Israel, while glossing over evidence to the contrary. An example of this was coverage by some media outlets of the Sixth Fatah General Congress, the first such conference in twenty years, which has just concluded. | | ...More |
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August 11, 2009
 The United Church of Canada is considering four so-called peacemaking proposals – two of which call for boycotts against Israel.
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August 7, 2009
 Some media coverage of the decision to award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, who organized the 2001 UN conference on racism which turned into an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate fest, has been superficial. | | ...More |
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August 6, 2009
 The BBC ruled that Jeremy Bowen failed to be accurate or impartial. Its investigation also revealed that he is willing to resort to dishonesty to justify his partisan reporting. | | ...More |
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August 5, 2009
As a result of CAMERA's communication with the BBC, the broadcaster amended an article discussing Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Husseini to more accurately reflect his anti-Jewish activities (though not his anti-Jewish views). | | ...More |
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"Washington Journal," a daily phone-in program, is a platform for defaming Israel and the Jewish people during which C-SPAN hosts sit passive and mute, tolerating bigoted callers. Network head Brian Lamb is stonewalling public complaint.
