AP

June 27, 2003

AP Misrepresents Fate of Iraqi Jewry

In "Attacks persist in Iraq; clerics rail against Americans" (June 20), Associate Press reporter Tarek Al-Issawi seriously misleads readers as to the nature of the exodus of Iraqi Jewry before and after the founding of the state of Israel.

February 25, 2003

Thumbs Down to Hassan Fattah

To Associated Press reporter Hassan Fattah for his Feb. 25 tribute to terrorist Abdallah al-Saba entitled "Islamic Jihad leader killed in house demolition hailed as hero."

November 30, 2001

Thumbs Down to AP’s Jamal Halaby

THUMBS DOWN to AP's Jamal Halaby for including unsubstantiated claims and inaccurate terminology reflecting a partisan perspective in an obituary of former Jordanian army commander Mashour Haditha al-Jazy.

July 12, 2001

AP Corrects False Story About Israeli Roadblock

The AP today (July 12) corrected a false story it had sent out yesterday which reported that a Palestinian newborn died as a result of an inordinately long wait at an Israeli checkpoint. According to the original story, a pregnant Palestinian woman on the way to hospital gave birth while her taxi was delayed for two-and-a-half hours at an Israeli checkpoint, leading to the death of the baby.