Haaretz

March 21, 2005

BBC and Ha’aretz Journalist Whitewash Palestinian Incitement

Akiva Eldar, the Ha'aretz journalist who recently transformed Palestinian propagandist Hanan Ashrawi into the "Enemy of Incitement," weighs in again on Palestinian incitement. In a BBC interview March 15, he repeats the old canard that the offending Palestinian texts are outdated Jordanian and Egyptian books, and concludes that anyway, "the focus on incitement is very wrong and it's in a way irrelevant as long as we are fighting."
March 13, 2005

Ha’aretz Gives Hanan Ashrawi a Makeover

In a news feature item in the Thursday edition of Ha'aretz, Akiva Eldar discusses Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi, her organization MIFTAH, and incitement. Interestingly, his only mention of the word "propaganda" relates to "Israeli propaganda" originating from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and the Ha'aretz writer has not a word to say about incitement originating from Ashrawi and MIFTAH themselves.
February 28, 2005

Ha’aretz Keeps ‘Quiet’

In a Feb. 10 Op-Ed about the current status of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ha'aretz writer Sefi Rachlevsky alleged that there had been "four years in which the Palestinians preserved nearly absolute quiet." Ha'aretz has ignored CAMERA's request for substantiation of this claim.
February 18, 2005

BBC Admits to Mistakes, Apologizes

The BBC has admitted on Feb. 17, 2005 to airing an unsubstantiated allegation against Israel without fact checking it, and has apologized.
February 6, 2005

Ha’aretz Refuses to Correct Prominent Front Page Error

On Jan. 26, the influential Israeli daily Ha'aretz, considered a trusted source by Western correspondents, ran a five-column color Reuters photograph above the fold on the front page. The caption, however, was wrong and a Ha'aretz editor refuses to correct though he doesn't dispute the facts.
February 1, 2005

Ha’aretz Feature Explores Media Monitoring

In a Ha'aretz feature today, Nathan Guttman explores the impact of media monitoring on coverage of the Middle East conflict ("Enough already from those pro-Israel nudniks"). He interviews NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin, CAMERA executive director Andrea Levin, Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler, and Los Angeles Times foreign news editor Marjorie Miller.
January 31, 2005

Ha’aretz Prints CAMERA Letter, But No Correction

In an important exposé that has been cited by other major media outlets, Ha'aretz Magazine wrongly reported that there is "no possibility of compensation or appeal" with respect to the 1950 Absentee Property Law. Though CAMERA provided editors with indisputable data disproving the claim, the paper refused to correct. Instead, Ha'aretz Magazine ran the following letter from CAMERA in the Jan. 28 edition:

November 27, 2004

CAMERA Column: Fast and Loose with Facts at Ha’aretz

Ha'aretz, which describes itself as "an independent newspaper with a broadly liberal outlook," allows its writers to espouse extremist views unfettered by the facts. Editors have refused to correct the many errors in a column by Gideon Levy, including a fabricated Golda Meir quote.