AP’s ‘Palestine’ Correction Reaches Dozens of News Outlets
Lesson learned? A CAMERA-prompted AP correction on "Palestine" terminology appearing in an education story reaches more than 30 secondary media outlets.
Independent
Guardian joins NGO campaign to libel Israel
The Guardian and the Independent joined a campaign coordinated by pro-BDS NGO Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders that libels Israel as deliberately killing journalists. Relying on inflated, terror-linked casualty lists and copy-pasted NGO claims, their reporting amounted to churnalism: advocacy dressed up as journalism.
British outlets bury terror affiliation of Anas Al-Sharif
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
Contextless Headlines on Funeral Clashes Highlight Anti-Israel Tilt
Like polluting empty plastic bottles strewn about, international media headlines devoid of key facts litter the information landscape and diminish public enlightenment.
Independent Arabia Ends Practice of Calling Gaza Area Israeli Communities “Settlements”
After extended communication with CAMERA Arabic, Independent Arabia decides to end its practice of erroneously referring to Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip as "settlements."
‘Tel Aviv Considers All of Jerusalem Its Capital’: Arabic Media and the ‘Non-Stop City’
Arabic-speaking journalists display a particular penchant for misidentifying Tel Aviv as Israel's capital, leading to patently absurd formulations including “Tel Aviv considers all of Jerusalem its capital” and "Tel Aviv's anthem."
Independent Arabia Columnist Fabricates Jews Who Live ‘Ordinary Lives’ Across The Arab World
Writing about a fictional Ramadan series, Independent Arabia's Amjad As-Sa'eed also resorts to fiction, falsely alleging thriving Jewish communities with "an ordinary life" in Syria, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt Algeria and Sudan.
Introducing CAMERA UK!
In response to rising antisemitism in the UK and continuing media bias against Israel, we’ve launched a new interactive website, CAMERA-UK, which will replace and combine content from CAMERA's UK Media Watch and BBC Watch.