In October, The Washington Post's foreign news operation airbrushed terrorists included in the Gilead Shalit-Palestinian prisoner exchange. Early November coverage was "all hole, no bagel." And three major articles in late November and early December went downhill from there. 
CAMERA staff this week elicited a correction at the Washington Post which had published an illustration falsely stating that Israel controls all of Gaza's borders. The error and correction follow:
Five Washington Post articles on Israel-related news in the first half of November highlight a continuing foreign desk problem: Palestinian-centric reporting misses the forest and a lot of the trees as well.
CAMERA staff elicited the following correction on a Washington Post blog post which erroneously stated that the settlement freeze that Prime Minister Netanyahu imposed last year was six months:
The Washington Post prides itself on reporting news in depth, not merely transcribing what sources say. But when it followed up Palestinian terrorists exchanged for Sgt. Gilad Shalit, The Post's depth was shallow. Compare The Washington Post's coverage of the Gilad Shalit/Hamas prisoner exchange to that of The Los Angeles Times. The Post stenographically copies Palestinian language -- "resistance," "military wing" and avoids telling details of Palestinian terrorism. The Los Angeles Times does better. Washington Post syndicated columnist David Ignatius echoed the Palestinian claim to be "frustrated by the U.S. inability to budge" Israel on a two-state deal. CAMERA's National Treasurer Carol Greenwald corrected the record with a Post letter to the editor. J Street, the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobby often pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel, and the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center's Theater J, which has staged anti-Israel agitprop in the name of art, get sanitized in the same Washington Post edition. A recent Washington Post book review and a column about a memoir by King Hussein's CIA handler both do the same thing: omit chunks of relevant Arab-Israeli history, leaving Israel to blame for the absence of peace. The Washington Post's reputation for investigative journalism, from 1970s Watergate coverage on, is well known. But when it comes to the story behind the much-hyped "Gaza aid flotilla II," The Post doesn't want to know. Late June reporting was a poor example for journalists and a disservice to readers.