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0 CAMERA http://www.camera.org/ en-us The latest articles from Camera Copyright 2012 Camera.org 2/4/2012 9:33:57 PM 20 <![CDATA[University of Exeter Gives Pappé a Pass on Invented Ben-Gurion Quote]]> University of Exeter historian Ilan Pappé has yet to provide a reliable source for a quote he attributed to David Ben-Gurion in 2006. Why? It does not exist.]]> Friday, February 03, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[International Herald Tribune Falls for Unverified AFP Image]]> -->The IHT runs an AFP photograph of a Palestinian worker allegedly injured after an Israeli soldier ran a trailer over his legs. At best, there is zero independent confirmation that he was injured. At worst, the photo is staged.]]> Saturday, January 28, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[NPR Lament: Palestinians Watching Sesame Street Reruns]]> In an example highlighting NPR's biased news judgement, the network devoted a feature to lamenting the Congressional decision to withdraw funding for a Palestinian version of Sesame Street, but ignored the Mufti of Jerusalem's call to kill all  Jews.]]> Friday, January 27, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Application Deadline for CAMERA Fellows <br>May 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, January 25, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[BDS: A Smokescreen for Delegitimizing Israel]]>

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns that crop up on campuses and at research institutions claim to promote human rights. In reality, BDS is a smokescreen for delegitimizing Israel.

]]> Tuesday, January 24, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction on Haredim]]> CAMERA staff prompted a correction on an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times which had inaccurately stated that haredim (ultra-Orthodox) in Israel are exempt from taxes and military service. ]]> Wednesday, January 18, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[MLK on Peace, Israeli Security and Anti-Zionism]]> -->Those who knew King well have recalled his strong support for Israel, his understanding of the links between Israeli security and peace, and his opposition to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. ]]> Monday, January 16, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Phyllis Bennis' Israel Problem]]> -->

Arguing in the Los Angeles Times Web site that Israel's "fundamental policy towards the Palestinians" is land "theft," Phyllis Bennis is compelled to ignore Israel's Gaza withdrawal and multiple offers to turn over almost the entire West Bank.]]> Sunday, January 08, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz and the Christmas Siege That Wasn't]]> Ha'aretz music critic Noam Ben-Zeev once again writes about an imagined siege, this time in Bethlehem. He falsely claims that during the Christmas season, Palestinians may not enter or exit the city.]]> Sunday, January 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ha'aretz's Sefi Rachlevsky Fabricates Rabbinic Ruling]]> Ha'aretz's Sefi Rachlevsky falsely claims that Rabbi Dov Lior ruled that soldiers who evacuate outposts should be treated as Nazis. Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew site, presses for an apology.]]> Sunday, January 01, 2012 +01:00 <![CDATA[The LA Times and the Grinch Who Stole Bethlehem Tourism]]> A record number of tourists visited Bethlehem this holiday season, and the hotels are fully booked, but the Los Angeles Times still finds fault with Israel. The reason: Israeli tour operators don't promote Palestinian tourism.]]> Thursday, December 29, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[NPR Ombudsman's Response to CAMERA Falls Short]]> NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos agrees with CAMERA on some points regarding Sheera Frenkel's flawed broadcast. But failing to call for corrections suggests a negative trend backwards.

]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Gives Baltimore Sun's 'Moderate Muslim Brotherhood' A Closer Look]]>

Criticizing continued repression by Egypt's military, a Baltimore Sun editorial described that country's Muslim Brotherhood as "moderate Islamist." A CAMERA letter, published the same week, suggested that description was a wishful and dangerous oxymoron.

]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[UPDATED: BDS Supporter Kills Off Living Palestinian Girl]]>  Two BDS activists in California are digging themselves into an ever deeper hole. Emily Alma kills off a living Palestinian girl in her effort to cover for her compatriot, who lied that "trigger-happy watchtower guards" killed two Palestinian children.]]> Monday, December 26, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Refutes J Street Washington Post Op-Ed]]>

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami used a Washington Post Op-Ed to recommend "redefining" what it means to be pro-Israel. He employed several strawmen arguments to make his case. CAMERA's rebuttal letter, featured under The Post's "Taking Exception" heading, spotlighted the evasions in Ben-Ami's claims.  

]]> Saturday, December 24, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Touching A Nerve -- Palestinian Origins]]> Speaker Gingrich's comments were a chance to explore contradictory statements by many Arab leaders and scholars, such as Philip Hitti, about Palestinian national identity, but the touchy topic was largely ducked by journalists.]]> Thursday, December 22, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Guardian Corrects: Israel Does Not Control Gaza Border With Egypt]]> The Guardian is the second major media outlet this month to issue a correction noting that Israel does not control all of Gaza's borders. The British media outlet, however, has not amended its headline and subhead placing Akko in the West Bank.]]> Sunday, December 18, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ethan Bronner and Facts Too Good to Check]]> According to a report by Ethan Bronner of the New York Times, Israel imprisoned a Palestinian child merely for "throwing stones and hanging Palestinian flags from telephone poles." In fact the teenager in question was convicted for attempted murder and possession of explosives.]]> Sunday, December 18, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Tom Friedman Doesn't Let Facts Get in the Way ]]> Among the most disturbing claims in Tom Friedman's recent op-ed is his grossly offensive and false statement that the standing ovation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Congress was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.  Unfortunately, it is not the only falsehood in a piece  replete with distortions and classic anti-Semitic canards. ]]> Thursday, December 15, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Harvard's Middle East Outreach Center Headed By BDS Supporter]]> Tuesday, December 13, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Amira Hass' Water Woes]]> Ha'aretz's Amira Hass uncritically relays Palestinian charges about Israeli water use, making no effort to take into account opposing claims and ignoring facts and figures which refute Israel's critics.]]> Monday, December 12, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Pappé Asked to Respond by University of Exeter and Journal of Palestine Studies]]>

Editors at the Journal of Palestine Studies and officials at University of Exeter in Great Britain have asked famed historian Ilan Pappé to come clean about a quote he attributed to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

]]> Monday, December 12, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Atlantic Corrects Year in Photos Caption about 'Nakba Day' Casualties]]> CAMERA staff elicited a correction on a 2011: Year in Photos caption which had overstated the number of "Nakba Day" demonstrators killed after infiltrating Israel from Syria. The error and the corrected caption follow:]]> Monday, December 12, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN Version of Balance on Israel: Buchanan and Nader]]>

For C-SPAN, a serial offender in broadcasting anti-Israel, anti-Semitic bias, bringing together Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan for an hour-long broadcast was consistent with its inclinations.

]]> Saturday, December 10, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[C-SPAN January – February 2012]]> Saturday, December 10, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Post-Watch: Washington Post Discredits Itself on Israel]]>  In October, The Washington Post's foreign news operation airbrushed terrorists included in the Gilead Shalit-Palestinian prisoner exchange. Early November coverage was "all hole, no bagel." And three major articles in late November and early December went downhill from there. ]]> Friday, December 09, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Staff Prompts Washington Post Correction on Gaza Borders]]>

CAMERA staff this week elicited a correction at the Washington Post which had published an illustration falsely stating that Israel controls all of Gaza's borders. The error and correction follow:

]]> Thursday, December 08, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Israeli and Palestinian Statements about the "Damn Table"]]> Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made headlines this week when he called on Israel to "just get to the damn [negotiating] table." The statement is peculiar, since Israel has pleaded with the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table while Palestinian leaders insist they won't do so unless Israel first satisfies their preconditions.]]> Tuesday, December 06, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[BDS Activist Peddles Fabrications in California Newspaper]]>  Sandra O'Neill, an activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign who manufactures grotesque falsehoods about Israel, has managed to peddle her fabrications, including the shooting deaths of small Palestinian children, to a Chico newspaper.]]> Thursday, December 01, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Pride and (Anti-Israel) Prejudice in New York Times Op-Ed on Gay Rights]]> According to Sarah Schulman, Israel should not be recognized for protecting gay rights, and anyone doing so should be seen as a participant in a nefarious PR campaign. ]]> Wednesday, November 23, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[NYT and CC Coming to their Senses on Mideast Christians?]]> The New York Times and Christian Century appear to be coming to their senses when it comes to the prospects for democracy and religious freedom in Egypt.]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[NPR Jaffa Story Alleges Israeli Plot to Eradicate Arabs]]> Sheera Frenkel's NPR story, based on distortions and omissions, charges Israel with a purported agenda "to have a purely Jewish state and to get rid of all Palestinians, the ones in the West Bank and in Israel," as one interviewee puts it.]]> Sunday, November 20, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Joseph Massad's Falsehoods, Columbia's Embarrassment]]> Joseph Massad's "Truth, facts and facts on the ground" (Al Jazeera English) is remarkable for the sheer number of falsehoods by the Columbia professor that cast all blame for the Arab-Israeli conflict onto Israel, while portraying the Palestinians as blameless victims. ]]> Friday, November 18, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Washington Post Israel Coverage:All Hole, No Bagel]]> Five Washington Post articles on Israel-related news in the first half of November highlight a continuing foreign desk problem: Palestinian-centric reporting misses the forest and a lot of the trees as well. ]]> Thursday, November 17, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Economist Misrepresents Bedouin Resettlement as Ethnic Cleansing]]> The Economist depicts Bedouin resettlement to cities as akin to land expropriation. The article fails to adequately consider the real problems of population expansion, modernization and limited land space.]]> Monday, November 14, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Prof. Hixson Takes the High Road to Hate Mongering]]> Those looking to incite hate toward Israel can choose the crude path, or opt for a more highbrow route. While Kent State's Julio Pino opted for the former, University of Akron's Walter Hixson weighs in with a somewhat more polished bit of anti-Israel agitprop.]]> Monday, November 14, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Op-Ed: "Will Kent State say ‘enough’?" ]]> Julio Pino's cry of "Death to Israel," hurled at a visiting Israeli diplomat during a university forum, is not simply a matter of free speech, but a violation of university policy.]]> Friday, November 11, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Prompts Washington Post Blog Correction on Settlement Freeze]]>

CAMERA staff elicited the following correction on a Washington Post blog post which erroneously stated that the settlement freeze that Prime Minister Netanyahu imposed last year was six months:

]]> Thursday, November 10, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Palestinian Officials Should Be Careful What They Wish For]]> So the Palestinian Authority wants U.N. membership to pursue Israel in international courts? A CAMERA Op-Ed in the Washington Jewish Week says PA officials should be careful what they wish far -- vulnerable as they are to many charges.]]> Thursday, November 10, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[BBC Derails on Jerusalem Tram Story]]> Writing for the BBC, freelance travel writer Matthew Teller misleads readers about the history of Jerusalem, about international law, and about present-day Jerusalem with a story about the city's new light rail.]]> Monday, November 07, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Ilan Pappé, Check Your Sources]]> Filmmaker Porter Speakman, Jr. retracts a Ben-Gurion quote obtained from Ilan Pappé's 2006 book because the sources do not check out.

]]> Friday, November 04, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[AP's Twisted Coverage of Direct Talks]]> An erroneous Associated Press statement this week that "Israelis and Palestinians have refused to hold any directs talks" is consistently contradicted by a year of AP articles which repeatedly demonstrate that Israel called for immediate, direct talks.]]> Thursday, November 03, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[CAMERA Ad: "When Palestinians Reject Coexistence, The New York Times Looks Away"]]> CAMERA's advertisement highlightings the New York Times' tendency to avoid reporting on incitement and rejectionism by Palestinian leaders and its impact on Palestinian society.]]> Thursday, November 03, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Reuters Cites Fringe Voices on UNESCO]]> Susan Cornwell's otherwise straightforward news account cited two far-left Jewish groups criticizing the U.S. de-funding of UNESCO and omitted statements, such as that by the mainstream Conference of Presidents, that applauded U.S. action. ]]> Tuesday, November 01, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Tunisia's Acclaimed Moderate Islamist Party has Troubling View of Israel]]> The media portrays the Islamist Ennahda [Renaissance] Party, winner of the Tunisian election, as moderate. However, statements made by its iconic founder, Rachid Ghannouchi, reveal alarming sentiment towards Israel.]]> Wednesday, October 26, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Washington Post Airbrushes Exchanged Palestinian Prisoners]]>  

The Washington Post prides itself on reporting news in depth, not merely transcribing what sources say. But when it followed up Palestinian terrorists exchanged for Sgt. Gilad Shalit, The Post's depth was shallow. ]]> Tuesday, October 25, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[AP Revises Caption About Palestinian Prisoner's Violence]]> After communication with CAMERA, the Associated Press revised a photo caption which grossly understated the terror acts and which severely exaggerated the prison sentence of Hamuda Saleh, one of the prisoners released last week.]]> Monday, October 24, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Presspectiva Prompts Yediot Achronot Correction]]> Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew-language Web site, has prompted a correction on an Op-Ed in the Israeli (Hebrew) daily Yediot Achronot, which had falsely accused Kiryat Arba residents of having the practice of shooting their Palestinian neighbors.]]> Sunday, October 23, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[Anti-Israel Propaganda Creeps Into World of Grand Opera]]>

The world of grand opera is not immune to the global spread of anti-Israel propaganda which manifests itself sometimes in the plot of a new opera and sometimes in a radical re-working of a venerable classic.

]]> Thursday, October 20, 2011 +01:00 <![CDATA[The Devil Lies in Details Washington Post Omits]]> Compare The Washington Post's coverage of the Gilad Shalit/Hamas prisoner exchange to that of The Los Angeles Times. The Post stenographically copies Palestinian language -- "resistance," "military wing" and avoids telling details of Palestinian terrorism. The Los Angeles Times does better. ]]> Thursday, October 20, 2011 +01:00