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0 CAMERA http://www.camera.org/ en-us The latest articles from Camera Copyright 2013 Camera.org 5/23/2013 2:10:09 PM 20 <![CDATA[BOOK REVIEW: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War ]]> Educators teaching students about Islam, the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict often turn for help to academics who promote an anti-Israel agenda that misinforms students.]]> Thursday, May 23, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[For BBC, Real Israel is "Hard to Imagine" ]]> An anonymous BBC source in Lebanon says that Israel is "laughing" at the upheaval on its northern border, and Beirut correspondent concerns, explaining that it is "hard to imagine Israel not being happy." But vivid imagination is not even necessary to understand Israeli concerns.]]> Thursday, May 23, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Meg Ryan's Publicist: Ryan Didn't Boycott Israel]]> Days after the Toronto Star unequivocally corrected that Bruce Willis "never boycotted Israel," Stephen Huvane, publicist for Hollywood star Meg Ryan, tells CAMERA: "Meg Ryan has not participated in any boycott against Israel." ]]> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[13-Year Controversy Over Al Dura Incident Continues]]> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Newseum Puts Honors for Terrorists On Hold: CAMERA Chronology]]> CAMERA was instrumental in convincing the Newseum, Washington, D.C.s journalism museum, to reevaluate its decision to add the names of two Hamas members to its Journalists Memorial.]]> Tuesday, May 21, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Robert Mackey Cherry-Picks James Fallows on Al Dura]]> Not for the first time, New York Times news blogger Robert Mackey distorted the views of fellow journalists by cherry-picking quotations and presenting them out of context. The latest victim (aside from Israel, of course) is The Atlantic's James Fallows.]]> Tuesday, May 21, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[BACKGROUNDER: Mohammed Al Dura ]]> UPDATED: More than 12 years after France 2 aired a report claiming that Israeli soldiers shot dead 12-year-old Mohammed Al Dura,  an Israeli government review committee has concluded that there was no evidence for those claims and that the report was used as propaganda that provoked violence and hatred against Israel and contributed to the delegitimization of the Jewish state.  CAMERA sorts out the claims and counter-claims. ]]> Monday, May 20, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[No Child's Play: NBC's False Figures for Detained Palestinian Minors]]> Earlier, NBC's Lawahez Jabari incorrectly reported that there is just one West Bank luxury hotel. When it comes to the much more complex and important subject of Palestinian minors in Israel jails, she's in way over her head.]]> Monday, May 20, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Toronto Star Corrects: Bruce Willis Never Boycotted Israel]]> CAMERA prompts a Toronto Star correction stating that Bruce Willis never boycotted Israel. The paper's public editor details how the reporter was misled by a pro-BDS Web site, and describes CAMERA's role in setting the record straight.]]> Saturday, May 18, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz Corrects: No Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount]]> CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction today of the latest examples of "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation." Two articles in the English edition last week falsely reported that Jews are permitted to pray on the Temple Mount.]]> Thursday, May 16, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Economist Squeezes Out the Truth]]> In a May 4th article in print and online, The Economist inverts the facts, casting a Palestinian attempt to take over land in the West Bank by erecting illegal structures as an Israeli land grab.]]> Thursday, May 16, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Roll Call Publishes CAMERA Letter Calling for Closer Scrutiny of J-Street Endorsement]]> When the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call recently took J Street's "pro-peace, pro-Israel" slogan at face value, and implied that the group was on the cutting edge of support for a "two-state solution," CAMERA corrected the record. ]]> Thursday, May 16, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts New York Times Correction on Gender Segregation]]> After communication with CAMERA staff, the New York Times corrected its erroneous claim that there is a "requirement" of gender segregation on buses passing through ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. ]]> Wednesday, May 15, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[On Newseum Scandal, Open Zion Destroys Months-Old Straw Man]]> By pretending that all criticism of Newseum hinges on the idea that Hamas members were legitimate targets, Raphael Magarik avoid seriously dealing with Newseum's decision to consider employees of a violent, hate-peddling terrorist organization honorable "journalists."]]> Monday, May 13, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz, But Not AFP, Publishes Correction On Israeli Stone-Throwers]]> CAMERA's Israel office prompts a Ha'aretz correction on a photo caption which wrongly identified Israeli stone-throwers as Palestinians. AFP, the agency which supplied the erroneous caption, has yet to publish a correction.]]> Sunday, May 12, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz in English: Jews Can Pray on the Temple Mount]]> In the latest "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," the English edition falsely reports that Jewish prayer is permitted on the Temple Mount. This is an egregious error given that only Muslims are permitted to pray at the site.]]> Sunday, May 12, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts International Herald Tribune Correction on Golan Heights]]> CAMERA's Israel office elicits a correction in the International Herald Tribune today regarding a photo caption which wrongly identified a Golan Heights tourist lookout as a military training zone.]]> Thursday, May 09, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[AFP Misidentifies Israeli Stone-Throwers as Palestinian]]> Not for the first time, AFP botches captions about Israeli-Palestinian violence. In an unprecedented twist, however, the newest flubbed captions whitewash Israeli violence, misidentifying Israeli stone-throwers as Palestinian. ]]> Tuesday, May 07, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Tel Aviv is the Capital of Israel, and Other Media "Facts"]]> A satirical Op-Ed shows how those all-too-frequent errors about Israel can skew the public's understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict.]]> Friday, May 03, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Letter Published in the Baltimore Sun]]>

Maryland's chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations bashed Israel in a Baltimore Sun commentary. CAMERA responded by exposing both their false analogies and CAIR as a Muslim Brotherhood spin-off and an unindicted co-conspirator in America's largest terrorism funding trial to date. ]]> Friday, May 03, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[French Court Ruling Affirms Legality of Israeli Occupation]]> A French court reaffirmed that Israel's occupation of the West Bank is legal. But you probably heard nothing about it. ]]> Thursday, May 02, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Updated: CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager Stonewalling Like Nixon]]> Updated May 2, 2013. Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS News, is acting more like a politician trying to hide the truth than a journalist reporting it.]]> Tuesday, April 30, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Updated: The New York Times Continues Its Irresponsible Reporting on the Arab-Israeli Conflict]]> -->

The New York Times provides two more examples of the double standards it uses when reporting about the Arab-Israeli conflict, in a) a headline that ignores the Jewish victim of Palestinian terrorism and b) pejorative editorializing about Israel.]]> Tuesday, April 30, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts Wall Street Journal Correction on Aid to PA]]> CAMERA commends the Wall Street Journal for its correction of an article that misled on the status of payments to the Palestinian Authority.]]> Friday, April 26, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus, Corrected Half-Way ‘Round the World]]> Washington Post defense and security correspondent Walter Pincus writes often about Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons. He doesn't think highly of close U.S.-Israel ties and gives Iran the benefit of the doubt. His columns also generate corrections, the most recent, on April 25, counters Pincus' spin. ]]> Friday, April 26, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Correction on Prisoner Samer Issawi]]> Ha'aretz clarifies that Israeli officials were shocked by Samer Issawi's comparison of himself to Holocaust victims. They did not, as stated in the English edition, agree with it. How long will anonymous translators continue to invent with impunity?]]> Wednesday, April 24, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: Wall Street Journal Misinforms on Money Transfers to PA]]> Readers told that the United States and Israel cut off money transfers to the Palestinian Authority would be forgiven for believing that the United States and Israel are not transferring money to the Palestinian Authority. But they would be wrong. (See update noting WSJ correction.)]]> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Bigotry, The NYT and Israel]]>

Times indifference to extreme anti-Israel bigotry in Palestinian culture continues to help encourage more of the same, all the while the paper loudly deplores far lesser instances of Israeli prejudice. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. seems unaware of the damage to the paper's reputation.]]> Friday, April 12, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Irish Academics Boycott Israel, Academic Integrity and Common Sense]]> The Teachers Union of Ireland unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the complete cessation of cultural and academic exchange with Israel, a boycott of professors, researchers and students for no reason other than their nationality.]]> Thursday, April 11, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Controversy at Cardozo No Surprise in Light of Carter's History]]> The controversy surrounding a peace award offered to Jimmy Carter by an academic journal at Benjamin M. Cardozo Law School in New York City is understandable given the former president's antipathy toward Israel.]]> Wednesday, April 10, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[LA Times, Gaza Kitchen Cooking Up Falsehoods]]> In an enthusiastic review of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey, the LA Times' Carol J. Williams, together with the cookbook authors Laila Haddad and Maggie Schmitt, brew up false charges against Israel.]]> Tuesday, April 09, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Weekend Roundup of Ha'aretz Errors]]> Following two commendable corrections last week, Ha'aretz unfortunately continues to slip up with shoddy translations and sloppy reporting. Weekend errors pertain to Palestinian deaths and Holocaust Remembrance Day caption. ]]> Sunday, April 07, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Elicits Ha'aretz Clarification on Settlements]]> For the second consecutive day, CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction in Ha'aretz. Today's clarification concerns a mistranslation which introduced the false claim that IDF officers must spend a week protecting illegal outposts.]]> Friday, April 05, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Presbyterian Author Omits Crucial Information About College’s Founders]]> -->

Presbyterian writer Rev. Ben Daniel missed some important facts about the founders of Zaytuna College in Berkley, California in his recent book.]]> Friday, April 05, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts Corrections on Gideon Levy Column]]> In response to communication from CAMERA, Ha'aretz today commendably corrects, in Hebrew and English, Gideon Levy's false claim that according to Amnesty International "only 92 Palestinian fighters" were killed in Cast Lead.]]> Thursday, April 04, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Injured Toddler, Soldiers Lost in Ha'aretz Translation]]> 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.]]> Tuesday, April 02, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts USA Today Correction on Palestinians in Israel]]> CAMERA commends USA Today for its correction of an article which grossly understated the number of Palestinians entering Israel for work and medical treatment.]]> Tuesday, April 02, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Columnists Fail 'Breath-a-lyzer' Test for Op-Eds on Obama's Israel Trip]]> 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."]]> Friday, March 29, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[New York Times Promotes (Actual) Palestinian Talking Point]]> 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.]]> Friday, March 29, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ian Lustick Needs A New Map (And Flare Gun)]]> 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.]]> Thursday, March 28, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Lancet's Negativity Toward Israel]]> The British medical journal, The Lancet, continues to publish unbalanced editorials exhibiting hostility toward the Jewish state.]]> Monday, March 25, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[New York Times Magazine Cheerleads for Terror]]> 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.]]> Wednesday, March 20, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[NPR's Ailing Coverage of Kidney Care in Gaza]]> 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?]]> Tuesday, March 19, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz Corrects: Palestine Not Full-Fledged U.N. Member]]> 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.]]> Tuesday, March 19, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[New York Times March Madness]]> 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.

]]> Tuesday, March 19, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ban Ki Moon Wrong About Israeli Settlements]]> 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. ]]> Friday, March 15, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Human Rights Watch Goes to Bat for Hamas's Al Aqsa TV]]>  

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.

]]> Thursday, March 14, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Terrorist or Militant? Washington Post Update]]> 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. ]]> Thursday, March 14, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Gaza Photo Controversy: Corrections and Lessons]]> 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.]]> Wednesday, March 13, 2013 +01:00 <![CDATA[Updated: Ha'aretz Upgrades 'Palestine' to Full U.N. Member]]> In the latest "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," Ha'aretz's English translators upgrade Palestine to a "full-fledged member" of the United Nations. ]]> Tuesday, March 12, 2013 +01:00