Mission

CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, is the leading organization exposing and countering anti-Israel narratives in the media, online, and in schools.   

Founded in 1982 to monitor bias in print and network media, CAMERA has since broadened its expertise to confront misinformation directed at Israel and its supporters, wherever it exists.  We correct falsehoods and distortions in the legacy media, expose disinformation on social media and other digital platforms, tackle antisemitism in K-12 education, support pro-Israel students on college campuses, and challenge  anti-Israel campaigns targeting Evangelical Christian churches and communities.    

With offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Jerusalem, Israel, and staff working virtually across the United States and United Kingdom, we operate at the forefront of the information battlefield to expose bias and promote truth, in turn strengthening support for Israel worldwide. CAMERA’s mission and work have never been more important.  

The scope of the problem

Inaccurate and distorted accounts of events in Israel and the Middle East are found everywhere — online, on campus, in the press, and in the pews. Sources of bias have expanded from television and newspapers to fashion magazines, architectural publications, encyclopedias, textbooks, and travel guides. Social media and podcasts now spread misinformation with unparalleled reach and speed. These inaccurate and skewed characterizations of Israel and of events in the Middle East fuel anti-Israel and anti-Jewish prejudice, putting Jewish life and lives at risk.

How CAMERA works

CAMERA systematically monitors, fact-checks, and critiques Middle East coverage and commentary. Staffers directly contact reporters, editors, producers and publishers about distorted and inaccurate coverage, offering factual information to refute errors. CAMERA members are encouraged to write letters for publication in the print media and to communicate with correspondents, anchors and network officials in the electronic media. CAMERA’s combination of rigorous monitoring, research, fact-checking, careful analysis, and grassroots efforts have had a documented impact.

How the public is kept informed

In addition, CAMERA staffers regularly assist members seeking specific information.

CAMERA’s work is frequently cited in the secular and Jewish press and in journalism reviews.

CAMERA on Campus

Increasingly, campuses have been the scene of propagandistic assaults on Israel. Distorted literature, extreme speakers and false, inflammatory images are all too common, creating harmful misperceptions of Israel. This hostile environment can be intimidating to students seeking fair and objective information on Middle East issues.

CAMERA’s campus website, Camera on Campus, and its affiliated blog, give students access to specialized information useful in countering misinformation. CAMERA also provides one-on-one assistance to students who encounter Middle East distortions in campus publications, flyers, rallies and classroom teaching.

K-12 Education

Anti-Israel activists have increasingly turned to K-12 schools to target students with slanted accounts of the Middle East. CAMERA is confronting the problem with its K-12 work. 

International monitoring

CAMERA engages with the media internationally through its international-facing programs: CAMERA UK, CAMERA Español, CAMERA Arabic, and CAMERA Hebrew.

Partnership of Christians & Jews

CAMERA’s Partnership of Christians & Jews is a powerful response to the intensifying effort to delegitimize Israel in Evangelical churches throughout North America and Europe, and to the media’s shameful silence about the alarming rise of Jew-hatred worldwide.

What people are saying about CAMERA

“Media misrepresentation of events in the Middle East poses an immediate danger to Israel’s security … and the only way to curb such reporting abuses is to shine the spotlight of public attention on them. CAMERA has the courage to effectively challenge the media to step up to its responsibility to report fairly and accurately.”
– Congressman Tom Lantos

“We all know that CAMERA’s mission is important not only for the Jewish community, but also for the integrity and vitality of American democracy. It is not just on one occasion that I wished there were an Israeli branch of CAMERA.”
– Democracy activist and former Knesset member Natan Sharansky

“The answer to false speech is not censorship but more true speech. The answer to half-truth is full-truth. The only people who should and do fear CAMERA are those who should and do fear the truth. … [T]he First Amendment was not erected to help the media but to help the people.”
– Harvard law professor and civil libertarian Alan Dershowitz

“There is … one source you can rely on when it comes to keeping track of news stories on the Middle East — CAMERA — Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.”
– Mayor Ed Koch

“Thanks to CAMERA … we know it’s fake.”
– Columbia Journalism Review columnist and media critic Craig Silverman

“The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) provides in-depth analyses of selected media pieces to expose and correct falsehoods and to educate editors and journalists to prevent such shoddy reporting in the first place.”
– U.S. delegate to the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance Sander Berger

“It is not the sort of problem that can be fixed with broad brush strokes, but rather is a situation in which the worth of organizations like the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America is apparent.”
– Former Boston Globe Correspondent Charles A. Radin