The May issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine features an article, "Jerusalem by the Book," in which the author returns to Jerusalem with a guidebook written by his parents in 1951. Unfortunately, when he ventures into territory liberated by Israel in 1967, the author steps into politics and outside the confines of journalistic accuracy. 
National Geographic's Parting the Waters, about Israeli and Palestinian use of water really just parts from the truth. To cite just one of many deceptions, it leads readers to believe there are no Palestinian swimming pools – like the one pictured above, in Jenin. In its June cover story, National Geographic blames the decline of Christianity in the Middle East on
Every Christmas, journalists and commentators use the Nativity as a lens to portray 
Many Israel-related articles appearing in the National Geographic Society's magazine in the past 15 years have contained false history and partisan political statements disparaging the Jewish nation. The trend continues on NG's cable TV channel. National Geographic's September 2003 article by Andrew Cockburn entitled "21st Century Slaves" fails to mention the world's leading human-rights and slave-trafficking offender, Sudan, while unfairly highlighting with a double-page photograph Israel's relatively insignificant prostitution rings.
CAMERA has twice sent to John M. Fahey, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of National Geographic Society, a detailed enumeration of the errors, distortions and omissions in "Lines in the Sand - Deadly Times in the West Bank and Gaza," by Andrew Cockburn in the October, 2002 edition of National Geographic magazine. Many readers have also written letters of protest to the editors. Despite this, the Geographic continues to "stand by" the article's errors.