Once again, CAMERA’s media monitoring delivered measurable results in August. Our researchers prompted changes at the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Independent, MS NOW, and CNN. One CAMERA-prompted AP correction was subsequently published by some 60 outlets across North America.
A CAMERA Correction Reaches 60 Outlets
The original Aug. 4 Associated Press report claimed that women and children made up “most” of those killed in Gaza, citing the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
CAMERA informed AP editors that the Hamas government’s own published figures do not support that description.
After CAMERA contacted the AP, the wire service removed the inaccurate reference to “most” and appended an editorial note acknowledging the error. Because AP copy is distributed so widely, the correction was republished by some 60 North American outlets, including The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The Dallas Morning News, as well as local NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates.
The result demonstrated the multiplier effect of CAMERA’s work: correcting one wire-service report prevented the same false claim from remaining unchallenged across dozens of news sites.
Major Newsrooms Amend Reporting
CAMERA’s interventions produced several other concrete changes during August.
The Financial Times upheld a CAMERA UK complaint and removed an unsupported strapline claiming that AIPAC was “linked” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The New York Times also amended a report that had presented a Lebanese casualty figure without attribution. Following CAMERA’s outreach, the newspaper made clear that the number came from Lebanon’s Health Ministry rather than treating it as an independently established fact.
The Independent made a series of changes to an article about the Temple Mount. It replaced language claiming that Jewish visitors had “stormed” the site, acknowledged that the Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site, and clarified that “ethnic cleansing” was a Jordanian allegation and not a statement of fact.
MS NOW also removed the incendiary claim that Israelis had “stormed” the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The network replaced it with a more factual description of Jewish prayer at the site and added a clarification acknowledging that the article had been updated following CAMERA’s intervention.
CNN revised its categorical claim that construction in E1 would make a contiguous Palestinian state “impossible,” changing the wording to “virtually impossible.” CAMERA continued to challenge the underlying assertion, using CNN’s own map to identify the roughly nine-mile-wide corridor east of Ma’ale Adumim connecting the northern and southern West Bank.
Challenging the Guardian’s Rewriting of Jewish History
CAMERA UK’s Adam Levick exposed a Guardian report that claimed an “infringement by Jewish extremists” had triggered Mandate-era attacks on Jews.
He detailed how the piece inverted the history of the 1929 Hebron massacre, when an Arab mob murdered 67 Jews, wounded dozens more, and destroyed the city’s historic Jewish community. He noted that the toxic libel that “Al-Aqsa Mosque is in danger” at the hands of Jews has been used to incite antisemitic violence for over a century.
Writing for the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), Levick placed the report within a wider pattern, explaining that the Guardian’s repeated publication of anti-Israel libels has helped fuel antisemitism in Britain.
CAMERA’s Leah Benoz also took CAMERA’s analysis beyond its own platforms. In an Op-Ed for The Jewish Chronicle, she detailed how the BBC routinely amplifies United Nations allegations against Israel without subjecting the organization, its evidence, or its political interests to adequate scrutiny.
Scrutinizing the Spanish-Language Media
Spanish is the world’s second most spoken native tongue. Masha Gabriel, director of CAMERA’s Spanish program, published a detailed study of dozens of dispatches from EFE, Spain’s state-owned news agency and a major supplier of news across Spain and Latin America.
The investigation documented EFE’s repeated reliance on Hamas terminology and claims, the omission of Hamas and Hezbollah aggression from context, and the unequal treatment of Israeli and Palestinian casualties. It also called out EFE for amplifying Hamas’s accusations of organ theft and murder without corroboration and for publishing a headline that erroneously blamed Israel for a strike on a school in Iran.
Marcelo Wio of CAMERA Español examined the wider consequences in a JNS Op-Ed published in both English and Spanish. He argued that distorted reporting has helped create a cultural current in Spain in which the demonization of Israel and anti-Jewish hostility have become increasingly normalized.
In just one month, CAMERA secured changes at six major news outlets, published extensive expert commentary and produced in-depth investigations into the global media.
Our rigorous media monitoring is making real change for audiences across the world. People deserve the truth. And they deserve to know if the media isn’t giving them the truth.
Whether online or on campus, in K-12 classrooms or churches, or while exposing media outlets across the world, CAMERA stands as a beacon of truth about Israel and the Jewish people. And we couldn’t do it without your help.