Andrea Levin

BBC’s Hardtalk Features Norman Finkelstein, Smears Israel

BBC's shoddy, prejudicial treatment of Israel and Jewish issues continued in a May 8 Hardtalk segment with Sarah Montague that featured anti-Jewish, Israel-basher Norman Finkelstein as commentator on American Jewish attitudes towards Israel.

Touching A Nerve — Palestinian Origins

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.

Reuters Cites Fringe Voices on UNESCO

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.

CAMERA Op-Ed: Bronner’s Flotilla Bias

For The New York Times bureau chief, the latest flotilla campaign organized by terrorist groups and anti-Israel radicals brought to mind, amazingly, Holocaust survivors seeking refuge in pre-state Israel on the Exodus. The sum of the "news analysis" was one more example of fact-anemic bias by the paper.

Johann Hari’s Interview Fakery

A journalist as indifferent to the facts regarding Israel as Hari, not surprisingly, is unprincipled in covering a lot of other topics as well.

Updated: Tony Kushner’s Anti-Israel Falsehoods Thwart CUNY Award

Update: Board of trustees reverse decision and grant degree. The award-winning playwright, much accustomed to kudos and hero-worship, is shocked to find not everyone accepts his slanders about Israel. Displaying characteristic indifference to the facts of Israel's long efforts to achieve peace in the face of aggression, he claims it's a terrible historical problem that modern Israel came into existence."

CAMERA Op-Ed: The New York Times and Itamar

The murder of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar prompted familiar circumlocutions and evasions by The New York Times where the killing of Jews is concerned. Rather than call it a "terrorist attack"— the family was said to have been killed by "intruders."

Scheuer’s Ravings

Few reputable media outlets deliberately seek out bigots to offer "expert" comment on Middle East affairs. Does Michael Scheuer get a pass thanks to his CIA credentials?

Time Strikes (Israel) Again

Karl Vick's latest is as crude as earlier caricatures of Israel, but apparently fills the bill for a weekly magazine that can't figure out what relevance it has in the new media age.