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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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Citing Only Critics, Robert Mackey Claims Ignorance of Arab Supporters of New Bus Lines
March 6, 2013

In his report on the Palestinian bus controversy, New York Times blogger Robert Mackey ignores pleased Palestinian customers because, he claims, he read "no testimonies from Palestinians praising the new bus lines." So why did he manage to miss this part of the story?
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Hezbollah Still Too Often Under Media Radar, Including Washington Post’s
March 3, 2013

The news media occasionally tell it like it is when it comes to Hezbollah, one of the world's most pervasive terrorist organizations. But too often they muddle the message about Iran's deadly surrogate, as recent Washington Post coverage shows.
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Letter to the Editor - Richmond Times-Dispatch
March 3, 2013

A Richmond Times-Dispatch letter-writer claimed that Iran's nuclear program was not such a threat and that Israel was trying to involve the United States in "another" Middle East war. CAMERA's rebuttal set the record straight.
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Updated: Weekend Roundup of Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation
March 3, 2013

In the latest batch of "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," translators grossly deceive concerning the Ethiopian contraception controversy, truncating an Israeli official's letter to falsely suggest that he confirmed forced injections. They also whitewash Fatah violence.
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Jodi Rudoren Quick with Excuse for Palestinian Rocket, But Buries Cause of IDF Shooting
March 1, 2013

Two stories in two days reveal two standards governing New York Times coverage of violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Updated: CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Correction on Palestinian Prisoners
February 27, 2013

Ha'aretz corrects online the latest example of "Lost in Translation." The English edition, though not the original Hebrew, wrongly stated today that 477 Palestinian prisoners were released in the Shalit deal. The actual figure is 1,027.
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Polls and Prejudice: Why So Many Got the Israeli Elections So Wrong
February 22, 2013

David Remnick's false diagnosis of an Israel veering uncontrollably to the right helps sustain the fashionable but unhelpful view the Palestinians have no active role in the conflict, and no responsibility for its course.
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Collective Punishment of Ha'aretz Readers
February 21, 2013

Have you heard about the Palestinian hunger strike to protest the "collective punishment"? Probably not, because that is not what is happening, unless you read Ha'aretz's English edition.
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Updated: Neglected Facts About Hunger-Striking Samer Issawi
February 19, 2013

Media interest in Palestinian hunger-striker Samer Issawi intensifies, albeit selectively. Ha'aretz publishes an enormous photograph of Issawi, but doesn't include even half a sentence about his indictment for attempted murder and other violence.
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Getting the Durban Treatment at Brooklyn College
February 15, 2013

Brooklyn College protected the rights anti-Israel protesters at a BDS forum last week. Pro-Israel Jews got the Durban treatment.

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Double Standards on Soccer Racism
February 9, 2013

When The New York Times reported on soccer racism in Europe on Jan. 5, 2013, the story was about the negative response to racism by European soccer fans. But when discussing the recent protests by Israeli soccer fans against the recruitment of Muslim players, the newspaper used this as an excuse to present a sweeping indictment of Israeli society.
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Ha'aretz Corrects E-1, Gaza Errors
February 7, 2013

Following Presspectiva's complaint to the Israel Press Council, Ha'aretz today runs two corrections. One article wrongly stated that Israel violated a High Court injunction by evacuating Palestinian protesters. Another blamed Israel for a Gazan's death, though the IDF denied involvement.
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CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction on Israeli Textbook
February 6, 2013

CAMERA staff prompt a Los Angeles Times correction today in an article which falsely attributed a positive example of depiction of the other to a Palestinian textbook when it in fact appears in an Israeli textbook.
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Israeli Outlets Foment Demonization With Sloppy Journalism
February 3, 2013

Vacuum and Ha'aretz's sloppy journalism about the use of birth control by Ethiopian Jews set the stage for Israel's demonization.
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What The Washington Post Doesn't Like about Ike
February 3, 2013

When it came to lessons learned by President Eisenhower about pressuring Israel in the 1956 Suez Crisis, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius got it wrong twice. But the truth will out ...
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Whose Land? Ha'aretz Distorts Eli Land's Status
February 3, 2013

Ha'aretz reports that the Civil Administration determined that at least 166 homes in the settlement of Eli were built on private Palestinian land. Yet the administration has never made such a determination.
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Maligning Israel at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
February 2, 2013

Why would the venerable Health Association devote its annual meeting’s keynote speech to excoriating and slandering Israel? The speaker was 1960s radical Angela Davis.
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Updated: In London's Sunday Times, Picture Worth a Thousand Anti-Semitic Words
January 28, 2013

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Sunday Times of London published a political cartoon that shares imagery with the racist, blood-libel caricatures used in Nazi propaganda to dehumanize Jews. Update: The newspaper has published a full apology.
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Ha'aretz Corrects: Gazan's Death Was Disputed
January 27, 2013

Following communication from CAMERA's Presspectiva, Ha'aretz English editors revise an online story which blamed the Israeli army for killing Gazan Mustafa Abu Jarad, despite disputed circumstances. Another article has yet to be corrected.

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Washington Post Corrects: Temple Mount is Judaism's Holiest Site
January 27, 2013

CAMERA staff have prompted a Washington Post correction of a photo caption which inaccurately identified the Western Wall as Judaism's holiest site. In fact, the Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site.
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London Review of Books Cheerleads for Hamas
January 21, 2013

Adam Shatz cheerleads for Hamas in his recent piece in The London Review of Books. Israel is blamed for the November flare up and Hamas is adjudged the victor.
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CAMERA Op-Ed in Jerusalem Post: "Why Egyptian Hate Speech, and ‘NYT’ Reporting on it, Matter"
January 21, 2013

The column commends the New York Times for prominently highlighting anti-Jewish hate indoctrination in Egypt, and explains why the newspaper similarly must likewise begin to give adequate attention to Palestinian incitement.
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Guardian Corrects: Israel Didn't Violate Injunction. Why won't Ha'aretz?
January 20, 2013

The Guardian has commendably corrected the false claim that Israel's violated a High Court injunction by evacuating Palestinian protesters from their tent encampment. Why won't Ha'aretz, which boasts "the best English-language journalism in Israel," likewise correct?

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CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction: No Tents Removed
January 16, 2013

CAMERA staff have elicited a correction today at the Los Angeles Times on a report which erroneously stated that Israel removed 25 tents from a Palestinian protest camp. The tents were left untouched.
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Catholic Order Offers Sabeel Narrative in Chivalric Garb
January 16, 2013

A Sabeel Activist from Ohio is using the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem to attack Israel and to downplay Islamist hostility toward Christians in the Holy Land.
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Updated: Killed (by Israel) in Translation: Ha'aretz's 'Tailor-Made' English Content
January 16, 2013

In today's "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," the English edition reports as fact that Israel killed a Gazan Monday. The original Hebrew correctly notes that the army denied involvement, a sentence that Ha'aretz English editors delete. "Tailor-made" English content, Ha'aretz style.
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Ha'aretz's 'Tailor-Made' English Content Wrong Again
January 15, 2013

It's a new year, and Ha'aretz's English paper has a new look. But "tailor-made" content for English readers still means inserting false information. This time, Ha'aretz English falsely reports that Israel violated a court injunction by evacuating Palestinian activists.

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CiF Watch Prompts Guardian Correction: Palestinian Activists Not Arrested
January 15, 2013

CiF Watch, an affiliate of CAMERA, has prompted an online correction at the Guardian, which had falsely reported that Israel undertook mass arrests of Palestinian demonstrators who had sent up a protest tent camp in the controversial E-1 area.
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The Washington Post Parrots Palestinian Line
January 14, 2013

In the first Sunday paper of 2013, The Washington Post gave major play to a feature epitomizing the paper's 'Palestinian-centric' coverage of Arab-Israeli news. 'In Gaza, a childhood shadowed by conflict' misled readers by turning cause and effect upside down.  
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Updated: CNN Corrects False Report About Arrest of Palestinians
January 13, 2013

Following communication from CAMERA staff, CNN promptly corrects an article which falsely stated that dozens of Palestinian activists were arrested overnight during the evacuation of a Palestinian protest tent camp in the contentious E-1 area.
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Christian Science Monitor Corrects Three Errors in Op-Ed
January 10, 2013

CAMERA staff elicited Christian Science Monitor corrections of an Op-Ed claiming Israel banned construction materials from entering Gaza for years and asserting Israeli control of the Egyptian border with Gaza.
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Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed Holds No Water, Plenty of Falsehoods and Malice
January 10, 2013

The Christian Science Monitor published a toxic Op-Ed which argues that Israel, unique among nations apparently, has no right to defend its citizens from deadly terrorist attacks.
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Washington Post Corrects Gaza Imports Error
January 9, 2013

CAMERA staff elicited a Washington Post correction today on an article which wrongly claimed that Israel banned building materials from entering Gaza for years. The Post is the latest in a string of media outlets to correct.
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E-1 Building Does Not Cut West Bank in Two
January 9, 2013

CAMERA letter in the Washington Jewish Week rebuts claim by J Street's Alan Elsner that building in the "E-1" corridor linking Jerusalem with Ma'ale Adumim "would cut the West Bank in two."
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In Exclusive Interview, Former Ha'aretz Editor Traces Paper's Decline
January 9, 2013

In an exclusive interview with Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew site, former Ha'aretz editor Hanoch Marmari details the reasons for the newspaper's decline in recent years. Aluf Benn, the current editor, responds.
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Updated: NPR Broadcasts Gaza Import Correction
January 9, 2013

After initially issuing only an online clarification regarding an "All Things Considered" broadcast which erred about the import of building materials into Gaza, NPR agreed with CAMERA that an on-air correction was needed. The follow-up was immediate.
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Wikipedia Entry on Victor Batarseh Lacks Important Information
January 9, 2013

Wikipedia's entry on former Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh lacks any reference to his membership in a terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It fails to mention he was elected with the support of terrorist organizations.

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CAMERA Prompts Washington Post Correction on Fatah Anniversary
January 8, 2013

CAMERA staff elicit a Washington Post correction regarding an article which wrongly stated that Fatah's Gaza rally was to celebrate 48 years since its founding. In fact, it's 48 years since Fatah's first armed attack on Israel.
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NPR Blames Only Israel for Undermining the Peace Process
January 8, 2013

The Palestinians undermined the peace process by rejecting negotiations and going to the UN for statehood affirmation. Israel then announced plans to build in area E-1. NPR found fault only with Israel.
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LA Times Is Latest to Correct Gaza Imports Error
January 4, 2013

Following earlier corrections by AP and the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times is the latest media outlet to correct the falsehood that Israel had not allowed building materials to enter Gaza in recent years.
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13 for '13: New Year's Resolutions We'd Like the Media to Make
January 4, 2013

Every January, people around the world take stock of themselves and resolve to improve in the new year, vowing to break bad habits and form good ones. In 2013, CAMERA would like news media to do the same and we suggest the following 13 for '13... New Year's resolutions we'd like the media to make.
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IHT Corrects Erroneous Headline on Building Materials for Gaza
January 3, 2013

Following communication with CAMERA, the International Herald Tribune corrects a headline which had erroneously stated that Israel allowed building materials to enter Gaza for the first time in years. While AP and IHT both corrected, NPR, the LA Times and others have yet to do so.
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CAMERA Prompts AP Correction on Construction Materials for Gaza
January 2, 2013

CAMERA elicits a commendable AP clarification regarding an article which falsely stated that Israel for years banned construction materials from entering Gaza. The ban applied only to the private sector. The U.N. cites 41,041 truckloads since June 2010.
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Updated: Deconstructing Media Falsehood About Gaza Construction Materials
January 2, 2013

According to the UN, more than 40,000 truckloads of construction material have crossed from Israel to the Gaza Strip since June 2010. So why are many media outlets reporting that Israel this week lifted a five-year ban?
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CAMERA Top Ten MidEast Media Mangles of 2012
December 29, 2012

In 2012, the media blundered all too many times in reporting on the Middle East. It was difficult to narrow it down, but CAMERA has identified our Top Ten MidEast Media Mangles.
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CiF Watch Prompts Correction on Ashrawi Op-Ed
December 23, 2012

CiF Watch, an independent affiliate of CAMERA, has prompted a correction at the Guardian on an Op-Ed by Hanan Ashrawi which had falsely claimed that Israel approved housing for Jews only in Gilo.
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Another Front-Page Gaffe at Ha'aretz
December 18, 2012

Weeks after Ha'aretz published, and then corrected, the wildly inaccurate front-page apartheid poll article, the English edition runs an egregiously mislabeled map and a tendentious headline. Where are the editors?
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Updated: CAMERA Prompts New York Times Corrections on Effect of E1 Corridor
December 16, 2012

In response to discussion with CAMERA staff, the New York Times corrected inaccurate claims about the E1 corridor cutting off Palestinian cities from Jerusalem and bisecting the West Bank. For a more analysis on the subject, read CAMERA's "Media Embrace E1 Falsehoods."
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The Threatened Use of Poison Gas in the Middle East
December 14, 2012

Alarm over reports that the Syrian regime is preparing to use chemical weapons offers an opportunity to provide some clarity about what lies at the core of the Middle East's instability.
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CAMERA's Letter to the Editor in USA TODAY
December 11, 2012

USA TODAY ("Netanyahu's arrogance threatens peace prospects," December 6) blamed Israel and its prime minister, instead of repeated Palestinian rejections, for the absence of peace. CAMERA's December 11 letter to the editor spotlights the editorial's pretzel logic.
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Media Embrace E1 Falsehoods
December 10, 2012

Instead of investigating activist claims that the building in E1 bisects the West Bank and cuts off access to Jerusalem, much of the media has simply echoed the false accusations.
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CAMERA Letter in Baltimore Sun Responds to Unfair Criticism of Israel
December 7, 2012

A Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, using Israel's "Pillar of Defense" operation against Hamas as news peg, blamed Israel for a host of Middle East ills. CAMERA's letter to the editor "Criticism of Israel ignores the facts" set the record straight.
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CAMERA Prompts CNN Correction on Soccer Petition
December 7, 2012

Following communication from CAMERA staff, CNN has corrected and clarified inaccurate claims that a soccer star signed on to an inaccurate anti-Israel petition.
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New CAMERA Monograph: Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
December 5, 2012

A new monograph about CAMERA's six-month study of The New York Times details how the newspaper treats Israel with a harsher standard, omits context, and shows a clear preference for the Palestinian narrative. Now available for purchase on Amazon.
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Sun Sentinel Columnist Gets Facts Wrong
December 5, 2012

Pierre Tristam gets a number of facts wrong in an op-ed published in Florida's Sun Sentinel. He falsely claims Gazans can't fish in the Mediterranean (they can) and that they cannot trade with the outside world. They do.
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UPDATED: CNN Duped by Anti-Israel Soccer Petition
December 5, 2012

Everything about CNN's claim that soccer star Didier Drogba joined 61 other players to protest the killing of Gaza teens playing soccer is false. Drogba signed nothing, there were fewer than 62 signatories to the petition, and Israel didn't kill 4 people playing soccer. UPDATE: CNN has corrected.
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PBS Corrects Erez Crossing Error
December 1, 2012

In response to CAMERA and public complaint, PBS Newshour corrected its inaccurate reference to Erez as the only crossing point between Israel and Gaza.
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Updated: PBS Gaza Coverage Partisan, Shoddy, Unbalanced
December 1, 2012

PBS’ "Newshour" aired back-to-back stories about Gaza and Israel resuming normal life. The Gaza segment is filled with civilians and devastation. In contrast, viewers do not see a single Israeli victim of Hamas rockets, nor is there one shot of destruction in southern Israel.
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Memo to the Media: Check Those Civilian Casualty Claims
November 30, 2012

In Operation Pillar of Defense, some media, relying on Palestinian sources, exaggerate the proportion of civilian casualties in Gaza. They give less weight to Israeli figures and ignore the fact that 2 out of 3 fatalities are men between ages 18-40.
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Ha'aretz Corrects Article Wrongly Blaming Israel for Boy's Death
November 29, 2012

Following communication from Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew branch, Ha'aretz has corrected a column by Anshel Pfeffer which had wrongly blamed Israel for the death of four-year-old Gazan Mahmoud Sadallah.
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Michael Oren: Media Perpetuate Hamas Strategy
November 29, 2012

In a Washington Post op-ed, Israel's ambassador to the United States writes, “Hamas knows that it cannot destroy us militarily but believes that it might do so through the media."
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Ha'aretz Lost in Translation: Whitewashing a Stabbing
November 28, 2012

Ha'aretz's translators again downplay Palestinian violence, this time transforming the stabbing of Yael Shalom into an "assault," her 20-something-year-old Palestinian assailant into an "Arab teen," and one of his weapons, a crowbar, into a "stick."
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Hamas' Smuggling Tunnels and What National Geographic Does Not Want You to Know
November 28, 2012

Following Hamas' use of long-range missiles to target Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, National Geographic editors chose to run a partisan article glorifying Palestinian smugglers while ignoring their malignant role in Iran/Hamas' war against Israel.
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Salama, Shalamah, Shamalah, Shamallakh... and Why David Carr is Wrong Regardless
November 27, 2012

The many criticisms of a recent New York Times article by David Carr might feel like a confusing blur of names. But regardless of whose name is spelled how, the reporter did a dramatic disservice to readers by ignoring facts and context in his indictment of Israel.
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Backgrounder: The Palestinian "Non-Member State" Drive at the UN
November 26, 2012

Mahmoud AbbasPalestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas plans to gravely violate the Oslo Accords and move towards statehood by getting the United Nations to upgrade the PA's status to "non-member state."
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Jon Lovitz Understands What Some Christian Peacemakers Do Not
November 26, 2012

Comedian Jon Lovitz demonstrated a greater capacity for moral discernment and reasoning than some Christian peacemakers during the Pillar of Defense Operation.
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CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction: 'Palestinian Journalist' Was Islamic Jihad
November 25, 2012

Following communication from CAMERA staff, the Los Angeles Times has clarified an article which wrongly identified Ramez Harb, an Islamic Jihad leader killed last week in an Israeli air strike, as a "Palestinian journalist."
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Ten Things The Huffington Post Got Wrong About Gaza (Actually Thirteen, but Who’s Counting?)
November 21, 2012

On a regular basis, The Huffington Post is a wasteland of biased and context-free reporting about Israel. During the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, The Huffington Post has hit a new low.

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Yahoo! Corrects: Israelis Taking Cover are Not 'Gaza's Children'
November 21, 2012

Following communication from CAMERA staff and readers, Yahoo! News editors have changed a photo montage headline which falsely identified Israeli children fleeing rocket attacks as "Gaza's children caught in crossfire."
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Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome in the Media
November 20, 2012

Some in the media are fixated on blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for whatever goes wrong in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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NPR's Leila Fadel: Israel Targeting Journalists
November 20, 2012

NPR's Leila Fadel, a victim of harassment by Egyptian authorities, raises the false charge of Israel targeting journalists. She states Israel "struck a media building," without noting that Israel hit equipment belonging to Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV and Al-Quds TV.
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The Facts About Gaza Rocket Fire
November 20, 2012

Hamas Rocket FireThe media often present a narrative biased against Israel, counterfactual and lacking in context. This is especially true now, as the world focuses its attention on Israel and Gaza. These are the facts.

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CNN's Jim Clancy: Maligning Israel at Every Opportunity
November 19, 2012

Jim ClancyWhile CNN's Jim Clancy is clearly immersed in Middle East issues, the unfortunate reality is that in his error-filled commentary Israel can usually do no right and the Palestinians no wrong.
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CBS Contradiction on Gaza's Civilian Casualties
November 18, 2012

Besides contradicting itself about Gaza's civilian casualties, CBS also covers up Hamas' use of human shields, downplays the sophistication of Hamas' weaponry smuggled from Iran and Russia, and gives no indication that Hamas is a terror organization. 

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Updated: In Gaza, Macabre Manipulations of a Child Victim
November 18, 2012

Once again, media outlets categorically blame Israel for the death of a Palestinian child killed in "hotly disputed" circumstances. AFP and AP captions ignore information pointing to an errant Palestinian rocket as the culprit, and Reuters issues a commendable clarification.
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The New York Times Still Spinning the News
November 17, 2012

The New York Times continues to spin the news about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through its framing and placement of stories. Take, for example, the Saturday, Nov. 17 edition.
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On U.S. Radio, BBC Reporter Misinforms to Defend Hamas Use of Human Shields
November 16, 2012

One day after a BBC reporter grossly exaggerated the proportion of Palestinian civilians killed, another provides false information defend war crimes by terrorists.
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The New York Times Evades the Facts to Blame Israel
November 15, 2012

The mindset at The New York Times is to indict Israel and let no facts stand in the way. This is made clear—yet again— in the newspaper's editorial about Israel's latest military operation to stop rocket fire. The column uses any kind of evasion to arrive at its desired message:  "Blame Israel."
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"Assassination" or "Killing"? AP's Double Standard on Counter-Terror
November 14, 2012

When describing the CIA's program of anti-terrorist drone strikes, the Associated Press acknowledges that critics call them assassinations, officials disagree, and avoids weighing in. But when Israel strikes, such nuance disappears.
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Timeline of Gaza-Israel Cross-Border Violence
November 14, 2012

The Israeli Defense Forces "Pillar of Defense" Operation., was launched with the targeting of Ahmed Jabari, the leader of Hamas' terrorist wing. Many media outlets, however, forget the sequence of events that led to this operation.  CAMERA provides a timeline of events. We will continue to update this timeline.
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Bennis and Smiley Bashed Israel With Distortions and Anti-Jewish Canard
November 12, 2012

Phyllis Bennis, again working at bashing Israel, teamed up with PBS’ Tavis Smiley on Oct. 11, 2012 to misinform viewers about the Jewish nation. Smiley’s show is aired daily (generally at midnight) in major cities.
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CAMERA Prompts CNN.com Correction on Jerusalem
November 11, 2012

Following communication from CAMERA staff, CNN editors corrected an online article which had wrongly stated that Israel captured Jerusalem in 1967. The error and correction follow:
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UPDATED: CNN Ignores Hit Jeep, Injured Israelis
November 11, 2012

In response to communication from CAMERA, CNN editors vastly improve yesterday's egregious coverage of Gaza violence which had omitted mention of Israeli injured, had stated that an Israeli army jeep was "target[ed]" whereas it was actually hit, and had reversed cause and effect.
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