February 7, 2012
  College activists may be eligible to travel to Israel on a free 10-day leadership and advocacy training mission from June 11th-June 20th. CAMERA will only be selecting a few knowledgeable student activists to join our CAMERA Fellows on the tour. Application deadline is March 12, 2012. | | ...More |
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January 25, 2012
 We're looking for committed undergraduate students with excellent communication skills for the 2012-2013 CAMERA Fellowship program. Our CAMERA Fellows will earn a $1,000 and be given the opportunity to travel Israel with fellow Israel activists. | | ...More |
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February 9, 2012
 High-ranking officials in the Presbyterian Church (USA) ignored repeated private warnings about the anti-Semitism broadcast by one of its “peacemaking” groups. The result is ongoing controversy and demonization of Jews and Israel. | | ...More |
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February 3, 2012
 University of Exeter historian Ilan Pappé has yet to provide a reliable source for a quote he attributed to David Ben-Gurion in 2006. Why? It does not exist. | | ...More |
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January 28, 2012
 The IHT runs an AFP photograph of a Palestinian worker allegedly injured after an Israeli soldier ran a trailer over his legs. At best, there is zero independent confirmation that he was injured. At worst, the photo is staged. | | ...More |
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January 27, 2012
 In an example highlighting NPR's biased news judgement, the network devoted a feature to lamenting the Congressional decision to withdraw funding for a Palestinian version of Sesame Street, but ignored the Mufti of Jerusalem's call to kill all Jews. | | ...More |
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January 24, 2012
 The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns that crop up on campuses and at research institutions claim to promote human rights. In reality, BDS is a smokescreen for delegitimizing Israel.
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January 18, 2012
 CAMERA staff prompted a correction on an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times which had inaccurately stated that haredim (ultra-Orthodox) in Israel are exempt from taxes and military service. | | ...More |
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January 16, 2012
Those who knew King well have recalled his strong support for Israel, his understanding of the links between Israeli security and peace, and his opposition to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. | | ...More |
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January 8, 2012
 Arguing in the Los Angeles Times Web site that Israel's "fundamental policy towards the Palestinians" is land "theft," Phyllis Bennis is compelled to ignore Israel's Gaza withdrawal and multiple offers to turn over almost the entire West Bank. | | ...More |
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January 1, 2012
 Ha'aretz music critic Noam Ben-Zeev once again writes about an imagined siege, this time in Bethlehem. He falsely claims that during the Christmas season, Palestinians may not enter or exit the city. | | ...More |
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January 1, 2012
 Ha'aretz's Sefi Rachlevsky falsely claims that Rabbi Dov Lior ruled that soldiers who evacuate outposts should be treated as Nazis. Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew site, presses for an apology. | | ...More |
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December 29, 2011
 A record number of tourists visited Bethlehem this holiday season, and the hotels are fully booked, but the Los Angeles Times still finds fault with Israel. The reason: Israeli tour operators don't promote Palestinian tourism. | | ...More |
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December 28, 2011
 Criticizing continued repression by Egypt's military, a Baltimore Sun editorial described that country's Muslim Brotherhood as "moderate Islamist." A CAMERA letter, published the same week, suggested that description was a wishful and dangerous oxymoron.
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December 28, 2011
 NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos agrees with CAMERA on some points regarding Sheera Frenkel's flawed broadcast. But failing to call for corrections suggests a negative trend backwards.
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December 26, 2011
 Two BDS activists in California are digging themselves into an ever deeper hole. Emily Alma kills off a living Palestinian girl in her effort to cover for her compatriot, who lied that "trigger-happy watchtower guards" killed two Palestinian children. | | ...More |
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December 24, 2011
 J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami used a Washington Post Op-Ed to recommend "redefining" what it means to be pro-Israel. He employed several strawmen arguments to make his case. CAMERA's rebuttal letter, featured under The Post's "Taking Exception" heading, spotlighted the evasions in Ben-Ami's claims.
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December 22, 2011
 Speaker Gingrich's comments were a chance to explore contradictory statements by many Arab leaders and scholars, such as Philip Hitti, about Palestinian national identity, but the touchy topic was largely ducked by journalists. | | ...More |
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December 18, 2011
The Guardian is the second major media outlet this month to issue a correction noting that Israel does not control all of Gaza's borders. The British media outlet, however, has not amended its headline and subhead placing Akko in the West Bank. | | ...More |
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December 18, 2011
 According to a report by Ethan Bronner of the New York Times, Israel imprisoned a Palestinian child merely for "throwing stones and hanging Palestinian flags from telephone poles." In fact the teenager in question was convicted for attempted murder and possession of explosives. | | ...More |
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December 15, 2011
 Among the most disturbing claims in Tom Friedman's recent op-ed is his grossly offensive and false statement that the standing ovation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Congress was “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.” Unfortunately, it is not the only falsehood in a piece replete with distortions and classic anti-Semitic canards. | | ...More |
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December 13, 2011
Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies is purveying biased, ideologically-tainted material to unsuspecting educators who seek objective, reliable information about Israel and the Middle East. | | ...More |
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December 12, 2011
CAMERA staff elicited a correction on a 2011: Year in Photos caption which had overstated the number of "Nakba Day" demonstrators killed after infiltrating Israel from Syria. The error and the corrected caption follow: | | ...More |
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December 12, 2011
 Ha'aretz's Amira Hass uncritically relays Palestinian charges about Israeli water use, making no effort to take into account opposing claims and ignoring facts and figures which refute Israel's critics . | | ...More |
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December 12, 2011
 Editors at the Journal of Palestine Studies and officials at University of Exeter in Great Britain have asked famed historian Ilan Pappé to come clean about a quote he attributed to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.
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December 10, 2011
For C-SPAN, a serial offender in broadcasting anti-Israel, anti-Semitic bias, bringing together Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan for an hour-long broadcast was consistent with its inclinations. | | ...More |
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December 9, 2011
 In October, The Washington Post's foreign news operation airbrushed terrorists included in the Gilead Shalit-Palestinian prisoner exchange. Early November coverage was "all hole, no bagel." And three major articles in late November and early December went downhill from there. | | ...More |
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December 8, 2011
CAMERA staff this week elicited a correction at the Washington Post which had published an illustration falsely stating that Israel controls all of Gaza's borders. The error and correction follow: | | ...More |
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December 6, 2011
 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made headlines this week when he called on Israel to "just get to the damn [negotiating] table." The statement is peculiar, since Israel has pleaded with the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table while Palestinian leaders insist they won't do so unless Israel first satisfies their preconditions. | | ...More |
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December 1, 2011
 Sandra O'Neill, an activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign who manufactures grotesque falsehoods about Israel, has managed to peddle her fabrications, including the shooting deaths of small Palestinian children, to a Chico newspaper. | | ...More |
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November 23, 2011
 According to Sarah Schulman, Israel should not be recognized for protecting gay rights, and anyone doing so should be seen as a participant in a nefarious PR campaign. | | ...More |
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November 22, 2011
 The New York Times and Christian Century appear to be coming to their senses when it comes to the prospects for democracy and religious freedom in Egypt. | | ...More |
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November 20, 2011
 Sheera Frenkel's NPR story, based on distortions and omissions, charges Israel with a purported agenda "to have a purely Jewish state and to get rid of all Palestinians, the ones in the West Bank and in Israel," as one interviewee puts it. | | ...More |
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November 18, 2011
 Joseph Massad's "Truth, facts and facts on the ground" (Al Jazeera English) is remarkable for the sheer number of falsehoods by the Columbia professor that cast all blame for the Arab-Israeli conflict onto Israel, while portraying the Palestinians as blameless victims. | | ...More |
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November 17, 2011
Five Washington Post articles on Israel-related news in the first half of November highlight a continuing foreign desk problem: Palestinian-centric reporting misses the forest and a lot of the trees as well. | | ...More |
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November 14, 2011
 The Economist depicts Bedouin resettlement to cities as akin to land expropriation. The article fails to adequately consider the real problems of population expansion, modernization and limited land space. | | ...More |
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November 14, 2011
 Those looking to incite hate toward Israel can choose the crude path, or opt for a more highbrow route. While Kent State's Julio Pino opted for the former, University of Akron's Walter Hixson weighs in with a somewhat more polished bit of anti-Israel agitprop. | | ...More |
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November 11, 2011
 Julio Pino's cry of "Death to Israel," hurled at a visiting Israeli diplomat during a university forum, is not simply a matter of free speech, but a violation of university policy. | | ...More |
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November 10, 2011
CAMERA staff elicited the following correction on a Washington Post blog post which erroneously stated that the settlement freeze that Prime Minister Netanyahu imposed last year was six months: | | ...More |
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November 10, 2011
 So the Palestinian Authority wants U.N. membership to pursue Israel in international courts? A CAMERA Op-Ed in the Washington Jewish Week says PA officials should be careful what they wish far -- vulnerable as they are to many charges. | | ...More |
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November 7, 2011
 Writing for the BBC, freelance travel writer Matthew Teller misleads readers about the history of Jerusalem, about international law, and about present-day Jerusalem with a story about the city's new light rail. | | ...More |
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November 4, 2011
Filmmaker Porter Speakman, Jr. retracts a Ben-Gurion quote obtained from Ilan Pappé's 2006 book because the sources do not check out. | | ...More |
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November 3, 2011
 An erroneous Associated Press statement this week that "Israelis and Palestinians have refused to hold any directs talks" is consistently contradicted by a year of AP articles which repeatedly demonstrate that Israel called for immediate, direct talks. | | ...More |
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November 3, 2011
 CAMERA's advertisement highlightings the New York Times' tendency to avoid reporting on incitement and rejectionism by Palestinian leaders and its impact on Palestinian society. | | ...More |
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November 1, 2011
 Susan Cornwell's otherwise straightforward news account cited two far-left Jewish groups criticizing the U.S. de-funding of UNESCO and omitted statements, such as that by the mainstream Conference of Presidents, that applauded U.S. action . | | ...More |
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October 26, 2011
 The media portrays the Islamist Ennahda [Renaissance] Party, winner of the Tunisian election, as moderate. However, statements made by its iconic founder, Rachid Ghannouchi, reveal alarming sentiment towards Israel. | | ...More |
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October 25, 2011
The Washington Post prides itself on reporting news in depth, not merely transcribing what sources say. But when it followed up Palestinian terrorists exchanged for Sgt. Gilad Shalit, The Post's depth was shallow. | | ...More |
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October 24, 2011
After communication with CAMERA, the Associated Press revised a photo caption which grossly understated the terror acts and which severely exaggerated the prison sentence of Hamuda Saleh, one of the prisoners released last week. | | ...More |
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October 23, 2011
Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew-language Web site, has prompted a correction on an Op-Ed in the Israeli (Hebrew) daily Yediot Achronot, which had falsely accused Kiryat Arba residents of having the practice of shooting their Palestinian neighbors. | | ...More |
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October 20, 2011
The world of grand opera is not immune to the global spread of anti-Israel propaganda which manifests itself sometimes in the plot of a new opera and sometimes in a radical re-working of a venerable classic. | | ...More |
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October 20, 2011
 Muhammed Sayyd Tantawi's status as an inveterate anti-Semite did not disqualify the late sheikh as the darling of inter-religious dialogue. He was lionized by the Vatican, the World Council of Churches and others before and after his death. | | ...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.
