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0 CAMERA http://www.camera.org/ en-us The latest articles from Camera Copyright 2012 Camera.org 5/21/2012 6:03:21 PM 20 <![CDATA[ UPDATED: Ha'aretz's Conflicting 'Nakba' Headlines: Clashes or Quiet?]]>

While a page-one headline refers to "Nakba Day marked with clashes," the page two jump headline states: "NAKBA: Quiet day." Also, a photo caption wrongly places the rock-throwing Palestinians in Palestinian-controlled Ramallah.

]]> Sunday, May 20, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Correction on 'Nakba Day' Clash]]> CAMERA's Israel office prompted a correction in Ha'aretz on a photo caption which had wrongly placed a "Nakba Day" clash in Ramallah, when it actually took place at the Ofer military prison outside of Ramallah.]]> Sunday, May 20, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Michael Scheuer’s Disinformation Compounds C-SPAN’s Israel/Jewish Problem]]> C-SPANs chronic Israel/Jewish problem continues as host Steve Scully once more indulges the disinformation and conspiracy-mongering of former CIA bin Laden unit head Michael Scheuer. His latest C-SPAN appearance is on May 6, 2012. ]]> Wednesday, May 16, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[In The WSJ, Michael Oren is Right: Israel's Enemies Seek Its Delegitimization]]> Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren writes, "Having failed to destroy Israel by conventional arms and terrorism, Israel's enemies alit on a subtler and more sinister tactic that hampers Israel's ability to defend itself, even to justify its existence." And he's right.]]> Wednesday, May 16, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[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. ]]> Tuesday, May 15, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz Corrects 'Nakba Law' Lost in Translation]]> CAMERA's Israeli staff prompted a timely correction of the latest case of "Lost in Translation." The original Hebrew edition correctly reported on the "Nakba Law," while English translators recreated it as something much more sweeping than it actually is.]]> Sunday, May 13, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Critiques Baltimore Sun Op-Ed on Divestment]]> A Baltimore Sun commentary properly criticized support among some in the Presbyterian Church USA for divestment from companies doing business in Israel. But a CAMERA letter spotlighted the writer's mistaken equivalence of Palestinian and Israeli grievances. ]]> Thursday, May 10, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Updated: The Samouni Case in Ha'aretz: Picture of Contradictions]]> Aside from a photograph contradicting Amira Hass' claim that the Samouni family could not remove casualties for two weeks, there's another problem with her story: a key passage is plagiarized from B'Tselem. And, in yet another egregious ethical breach, Ha'aretz quietly scrubs its online article.]]> Wednesday, May 09, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[U.S. Election is not Israel's Iran Consideration]]>  A Washington Times columnist, Arnaud de Borchgrave, tied a possible Israeli attack on Iran's presumed nuclear weapons program to the U.S. presidential election, and cited an Israeli source as downplaying the Iranian threat. CAMERA's letter to the editor supplied the missing, and contradictory, context.]]> Monday, May 07, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation]]> English translators for the Israeli daily repeatedly minimize or expunge information about Arab wrongdoings appearing in the Hebrew original. At times, the English account is completely at odds with the original Hebrew.]]> Sunday, May 06, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Desmond Tutu Assails Israel, Gives Palestinians a Pass]]> Archbishop Desmond Tutu is at it again, using his status as one of the heroes in the anti-Apartheid struggle of the 1980s to smear Israel and give Palestinian leaders a pass. ]]> Friday, May 04, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts Removal of Tendentious LA Times Headline]]> Following communication with CAMERA staff, the Los Angeles Times changed a tendentious headline which falsely depicted Sheik Raed Saleh, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamist Movement in Israel, as a campaigner for civil rights. ]]> Tuesday, May 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Amira Hass and the Activists of Nabi Saleh]]> Ha'aretz's Amira Hass has trotted out her tired theme of Israeli abuse of Palestinians, allowing a Palestinian activist in Nabi Saleh to promote propagandistic claims that are belied in an earlier; Palestine Monitor article. ]]> Tuesday, May 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Hamas "Phased Plan" is not an Oxymoron]]> It's time that newspapers and professors stop being baffled every time Hamas suggests it will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a step toward replacing Israel with an Islamic state.]]> Monday, April 30, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Why 1948 Matters More Than Ever]]> The competing "narratives" about the War of Independence lie at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. If, as the Arabs and most Europeans believe, Israel was born in original sin, if the Jews really did ransack placid Arab villages, then Arab hatred for Israel would be understandable, as would their fundamental refusal to really make peace. But the Arab narrative is wrong Israel was not born in original sin. Once the Arabs finally face the facts, a peaceful end to the conflict might be possible.]]> Monday, April 30, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Elie Wiesel Challenges President Obama; Washington Post Misses Story]]> President Barack Obama and Elie Wiesel visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in connection with Holocaust Remembrance Day. While there, Wiesel challenged the president over Syrian repression and Iranian threats against Israel. Washington Post coverage omitted the biggest news.  ]]> Monday, April 30, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Guardian Exploits Holocaust Survivors to Slander Israel]]> In the United Kingdom on Yom HaShoah, readers of The Guardian were subjected to a grotesque story penned by Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood, describing Israeli Holocaust survivors "who cannot make ends meet" and implying that Israel neglects them. ]]> Friday, April 27, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[What Did Israeli Chief of Staff Really Say about Iran?]]> The Washington Post reported an Ha'aretz interview with the Israeli military's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Gantz, as front page news. But as The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out, something important was missing in the re-transmission: Nuance that did not minimize the  danger of Iranian nuclear weapons.  ]]> Thursday, April 26, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Application Deadline for CAMERA Fellows Extended to June 1, 2012]]> We're looking for committed undergraduate students with excellent communication skills for the 2012-2013 CAMERA Fellowship program. Our CAMERA Fellows will earn a $1,000 and be given the opportunity to travel Israel with fellow Israel activists. ]]> Wednesday, April 25, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[60 Minutes Smears Israel for Christian Exodus from Holy Land]]> -->

Bob Simon had the time, but apparently not the inclination, to investigate the challenges faced by Palestinian Christians. Consequently, he misled his viewers about this community in a recent episode of 60 Minutes.]]> Wednesday, April 25, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[CBS News' Mike Wallace: A Dissent]]>  Virtually all the many news media tributes for Mike Wallace, veteran correspondent of CBS News' "60 Minutes," omitted a singular peculiarity: When it came to adversaries of Jews and Israel, this hard-hitting journalist went soft. ]]> Friday, April 20, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Munther Isaac Contradicts Himself]]> In his response to an opinion piece by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, Palestinian Pastor Munther Isaac contradicts himself (and his fellow pastors) about the status of Christians in Palestinian society.]]> Monday, April 16, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Institute for Palestine Studies Stands by Misrepresentations, Threatens Legal Action]]> What does an academic journal with a self-proclaimed dedication to accuracy do to make right with its readers after it dramatically misinforms them about an important historical document? In the case of the Journal of Palestine Studies, it apparently threatens legal action.]]> Monday, April 16, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN May – June 2012]]> Sunday, April 15, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Israeli Jews: The Impossible People at Christ at the Checkpoint]]> One important topic of discussion at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference that took place in Bethlehem in early March was how Christians should related to a state founded and inhabited by Jews who reject Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.]]> Wednesday, April 11, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA['Occupied' or 'Disputed' Depends on Israel's Involvement]]> What's the difference -- in news media coverage -- between Kashmir and the West Bank? It seems to be that, for the press, the former is "disputed" territory but the latter is "occupied." Yet sovereignty over the West Bank most definitely is unresolved and disputed. ]]> Tuesday, April 10, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Journal of Palestine Studies Compounds its Ben-Gurion Error]]> The Journal of Palestine Studies published a falsified quote, which historian Ilan Pappé attributed to David Ben-Gurion. But instead of clearing the record with a straightforward correction, the journal misled readers further. It defended Pappé by citing another inaccurate quote, and provided a substantive mistranslation of the letter in which the quote was said to appear.]]> Monday, April 09, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[A Sad But Incomplete Story]]>

Lynne Hybels from Willow Creek Church told a sad and moving tale about a home demolition in Jerusalem. It was not the whole story.

]]> Thursday, April 05, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Philip Weiss and MJ Rosenberg: Whitewashing the Term "Israel Firster"]]> Philip Weiss of the anti-Israel blog Mondoweiss and MJ Rosenberg of Media Matters and the Huffington Post, tried to excuse slandering supporters of Israel as "Israel Firsters" by claiming Abram Sachar, founding President of Brandeis, used the term in 1960. But Sachar was referring to Israelis who thought that only in Israel could a full Jewish life be lived. His refererence was not even remotely concerned with dual loyalties. ]]> Sunday, April 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Washington Post Corrects: Jerusalem is Israel's Capital]]> CAMERA staff prompts a commendable correction at the Washington Post making clear that Jerusalem is Israel's capital, and not Tel Aviv, as wrongly reported last week. The error and correction follow:]]> Saturday, March 31, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Daily Show's Unfunny Segment on Palestinians and UNESCO]]> The Daily Show's two-part report on America's suspension of funding to UNESCO for admitting Palestine misinforms rather than informs. In the process, it reinforces ugly prejudices.]]> Friday, March 30, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz 'Lost in Translation' Corrected]]> Yesterday, settlements advocate Karni Eldad wrote in the Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz that settlers "cleared stones." Ha'aretz erroneously translated that phrase into English as settlers "expelled," an incendiary charge. Today, Ha'aretz commendably corrects the latest "Lost in Translation."]]> Monday, March 26, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Global Blood Libel against Israel]]> Mohammed Merah, the confessed Toulouse killer, said he wanted to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children. The drumbeat of false accusations that Israel murders Palestinian children is a modern day blood libel in which the media is complicit.

]]> Friday, March 23, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria: Depending on the Moderation of Mullahs]]> Fareed Zakaria, the over-exposed pundit of CNN, TIME and The Washington Post, advises Israel and the United States that a nuclear-armed Iran can be tolerated and deterred. His argument, however, rests on bad history, false comparisons and unconvincing empathy.  ]]> Tuesday, March 20, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: International Herald Tribune Caption Challenged, Again]]> You wouldn't know it from the caption, but the tear-gas-engulfed Palestinians were part of a stone-throwing crowd; they were not in Ramallah, but at a Jerusalem crossing; and they were demonstrating on behalf of Hana Shalabi, an Islamic Jihad member.]]> Tuesday, March 13, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts NY Times Correction on President's AIPAC Speech]]> The New York Times has commendably corrected an article which last week erroneously reported President Obama's statements at the AIPAC conference regarding Iran's nuclear program. ]]> Tuesday, March 13, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Economist Blog: Short on Facts, Long on Venom ]]> The Economist published under its imprimatur an online blog thoroughly disconnected from the facts and conveying such animus and contempt toward Israel, Judaism and Jews that it is clear no journalistic norms were applied.
]]> Tuesday, March 13, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Jodi Rudoren: It's Not Just Tweets]]> Jodi Rudorens recent friendly tweets to extreme anti-Israel activists were no aberration. More than 10 years ago she was already at it, failing to display the kind of journalistic objectivity that even a cub reporter should know was a basic requirement of her profession. ]]> Friday, March 09, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Heckler at UC Davis Accuses Israeli Presenter of “Rape,” “Prostitution”]]> On February 27^th, two Israeli soldiers gave a presentation (or tried to) at the University of California, Davis, to correct misconceptions about the IDF. Students from Students for Justice in Palestine, Muslim Student Association, and Jewish Voice for Peace heckled the presenters.]]> Thursday, March 08, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[At the New York Times: Inflammatory Photo Fit to Print?]]> The March 8th edition of the New York Times inexplicably placed on the front page above the fold "Mideast Din Drowns Out Palestinians," featuring an inflammatory photo apparently showing Israeli soldiers firing rifles at Palestinian stone-throwers. But that's not what the photo actually showed, and this was only the beginning of the report's problems.]]> Thursday, March 08, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Washington Post Features More Unopposed Palestinian Propaganda]]> "One state is enough," a March 4 commentary by an organizer of the discredited Harvard University anti-Israel conference, exemplifies a chronic problem on The Washington Post's Op-Ed page -- hospitality to unrebutted anti-Israel offerings by outside contributors.    ]]> Wednesday, March 07, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Daylight Between Friedman and Kristof on Egypt]]> The New York Times' Thomas Friedman and Nicholas Kristof operate as a tag-team attacking the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. But on the Arab Spring, differences among the two have emerged.]]> Tuesday, March 06, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Deconstructing "Israeli Apartheid"]]> Israels adversaries have always charged the country with misdeeds, but only relatively recently have these alleged evils coalesced into the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), modeled after the campaign against apartheid South Africa. As a detailed examination shows, the apartheid charges are utterly false. The activists who level these charges deserve no credibility.]]> Thursday, March 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[More Silence of The Times]]>  
America's newspaper of record doesn't always record key events, especially those that contradict a powerful story line, like the one that deems Mahmoud Abbas "moderate."
]]> Thursday, March 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: AFP Defense of Dubious Photo Raises Additional Discrepancies]]>
AFP defends its photo caption which claimed a Palestinian was injured after an Israeli soldier ran him over with a trailer. Yet, the AFP statement and the caption contradict each other.
]]> Wednesday, February 29, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Pat Buchanan Doesn't Deserve Conservative Support over MSNBC]]>  When MSNBC announced that commentator Pat Buchanan would not be returning after a four-month break, some news media conservatives defended him and charged the left-leaning cable channel with ideological censorship. They ignored a defining characteristic of Buchanan, his antisemitism -- something William F. Buckley, father of the modern conservative movement, identified 20 years ago. ]]> Tuesday, February 28, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Harvard Can't Duck Ties to One-State Conference]]> Harvard has welcomed anti-Israel radicals to its faculty and research centers. The One-State Conference advocating the end of the Jewish state is a predictable result.]]> Monday, February 27, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Did Pappé Invent Another Quote?]]> In his 2009 book about the Husseini family, historian Ilan Pappé attributes a quote to Sir Walter Shaw. The source he cites does not include the quote in question. Is the quote real?]]> Friday, February 24, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Typifying the Ineptitude: C-SPAN Hosts Faced with Anti-Israel Callers ]]> Inept call-handling by C-SPAN's Washington Journal hosts, especially anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli callers, was on display in the Feb. 5, 2012 broadcast.
]]> Thursday, February 23, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Washington Post Watch: 'Terrorism Against Me, Not Always Thee' ]]>  A series of Washington Post articles underscore that the closer terrorism comes to Washington, D.C., the more precisely the newspaper describes it. But when Israelis are targeted, the paper refers to euphemisms like "militant," guerrilla" and "activist."]]> Thursday, February 23, 2012 +01:00