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CAMERA Prompts Improved AP Coverage on Temple Mount

global post correctionWorking in the same news cycle as the Jerusalem bureaus, CAMERA's Israel office keeps the AP's mischaracterization of the Western Wall out of papers worldwide. The wire service also adds key information about the Temple Mount's holy status in Judaism and Islam.

AP Assails Israel’s Democracy

AP's Middle East editor asks and answers about Israeli democracy: "Is Israel a democracy? The answer is not so straightforward." What isn't straightforward is the article the follows, twisting, omitting, and stacking the deck in order to delegitimize Israel and absolve Palestinians.

The Associated Press Demonstrates Its Bias Against Israel


An Associated Press analysis piece alleged that Israeli air strikes on homes overwhelmingly victimized civilians. But the study's data sample and methodology were flawed and the authors ignored a study contradicting their allegations.

CAMERA’s Top Ten MidEast Media Mangles for 2014

This year the press stumbled all too many times in covering the Middle East, falling down on the obligation to report accurately and without bias. Though there were many contenders, CAMERA has identified the biggest offenders.

Backdraft: Some Media Outlets Backtrack on Mosque ‘Arson’

Weeks after news accounts blamed Jewish arsonists for a fire in a West Bank mosque, an investigation finds the cause was electrical. CAMERA followed up with media outlets that had reported as fact that the mosque was attacked, with positive outcomes at AP, New York Times and Haaretz.

Associated Press Lays Down Smokescreen

Paul Colford from the Associated Press has responded to Matti Friedman's criticism of its coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict, accusing Friedman of offering half-truths and distortions. Colford's response indicates that the AP is not serious about engaging in journalistic self-reflection.

The MSM’s Inversion of Reality

Yehuda Glick is a non-violent Israeli activist, director of the Libah organization that advocates freedom of worship for Jews on the Temple Mount. Muataz Hijazi is the Palestinian presumed to have shot Glick in an assassination attempt. Yet it is the non-violent Glick whom the media labels pejoratively as a "far-right" provocateur while the Palestinian terrorist who tried to kill him and Palestinian rioters on the Temple Mount who engage in violence against Israelis escape any such designations.