‘Washington and Tel Aviv’ Strike Again
UPDATED: CAMERA prompts an AP correction, republished in dozens of secondary media outlets, after the news agency cited "Washington and Tel Aviv," wrongly identifying Israel's capital.
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
In Purim Spirit, Wire Services Cite Peace Between Israel, Hamas & Smotrich’s Jewish ‘Colonialism’ Campaign
With an absurd claim about purported aspirations for peace between Hamas and Israel and a ludicrous assertion that far-right Israeli Minister Smotrich supposedly kicked off a campaign promoting Jewish "colonialism," AP and AFP hilariously get into the spirit of Purim.
2025 Year In Review and The New York Times’ 2019 Bellwether For Antisemitism
Six years after The Times’ notorious publication of a vile antisemitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Jewish star collar leading a blind, kippah-clad President Trump, antisemitic tropes take firm root in countless media outlets globally.
PRESS ADVISORY: CAMERA Reminds Media That ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Is a Call for Violence Against Jews Everywhere
CAMERA calls on international news outlets to clearly and forthrightly report on the meaning of the “Globalize the Intifada” chant, which incites attacks against Jews across the globe.
Turkey — and AFP — Rally Allies Over Gaza
Has the Turkish campaign to recruit the hearts and minds of Muslim allies worked its charm on AFP? The news agency's grossly tendentious depiction of threats to the Gaza ceasefire -- "Israeli strikes and claims of Palestinian attacks" -- suggests that the answer is yes.
No Known Accountability? AFP Ignores Illness of Skeletal Child Mariam Dawwas
AFP captions accompanying a dozen portraits of Mariam Dawwas report without challenge the mother's claim that the 9-year-old "had no known illness." Independent journalist David Collier outperforms the "leading global news agency," revealing the malnourished girl suffers from intestinal malabsorption.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Media Bury Shocking Footage, Further Erase Hostages
The Israeli hostages are literally wasting away. And the media can’t erase their presence fast enough, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal writes in JNS.
Video: AFP’s ‘starving journalists’ story doesn’t add up
Are the “last reporters in Gaza” starving to death?
That’s what AFP declared in a dramatic press release on July 21 claiming its employees would die without immediate intervention.
But while the media echoed the story around the world, AFP’s own photographers were still out working.
When Journalists Become the Story
On July 21, an AFP journalist society posted a press release about the "last journalists in Gaza" facing death by starvation. The Committee to Protect Journalists then declared that "Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence.” But were the journalists really being starved into silence?
AFP’s Pulitzer Finalist Photographers: Broken News Photography
Early this month, four Agence France Presse photographers working in the Gaza Strip were named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their “Breaking News Photography.” But zooming in on two of these individuals – Omar al-Qatta and Bashar Taleb – exposes them as the very picture of broken news photography.