Christian Science Monitor

CAMERA Prompts CSM Correction: Efrat Not an Outpost

In a July 9 "Reporters on  the Job" segment, the Christian Science Monitor erroneously described the West Bank town of Efrat as a "settler outpost." In response to CAMERA's July 14 email about the error, the paper's International Editor thanked CAMERA for "bringing it to [his] attention," and today the paper printed the following correction:

Monitor Muddles Terrorism and Fence Building

A Christian Science Monitor article treats the Israeli victims of a terrorist attack as an afterthought. To the Monitor, the tragedy seems to be -- not that two civilians were killed -- but that the suicide bombers “threatened to undermine the Palestinian Authority’s campaign to stop Israel’s barrier.”