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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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March 25, 2013
 The British medical journal, The Lancet, continues to publish unbalanced editorials exhibiting hostility toward the Jewish state. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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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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? | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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? | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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March 1, 2013
 Two stories in two days reveal two standards governing New York Times coverage of violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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February 15, 2013
Brooklyn College protected the rights anti-Israel protesters at a BDS forum last week. Pro-Israel Jews got the Durban treatment. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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 ... | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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? | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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? | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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? | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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November 26, 2012
 Palestinian 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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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November 20, 2012
 The 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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November 19, 2012
 While 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. | | ...More |
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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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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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." | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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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: | | ...More |
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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. | | ...More |
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