Abbas in U.N. Wonderland; Media Miss Cheshire Cat
Alice in Wonderland, Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations. News media didn't quite get the connection.
Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian Groups Ahead of ISIS in Destroying Antiquities
The Islamic State's (ISIS) destruction of pre-Islamic Middle Eastern antiquities is nothing new. Palestinian Arabs have been doing the same to Jewish sites for years—but without drawing news coverage like ISIS.
Incitement over Temple Mount Leads to Palestinian Violence, Again
Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Authority media incite Temple Mount violence. News coverage misses old and deadly pattern.
Note to Foreign Desk–Washington Post Editorial Reports News
Newspaper editorial pages may be among the least read. That's too bad when, as in the case of a recent Washington Post editorial on Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, they report news the foreign and national desks often downplay.
Washington Post Ops for Pop Psychology over Hard News on Palestinian U.N. Moves
A Palestinian leadership is “frustrated” by failure of talks with Israel, or it caused negotiations to fail? The Washington Post opts for pop psychology over hard news in coverage of evasive Palestinian diplomacy.
Mahmoud Abbas at Paris March. Media Don’t Ask Why
What was Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas doing at the Paris march for free speech and against Islamic terrorism? News media didn't ask, or didn't want to.
Omissions Distort Washington Post’s ‘Palestinian U.N. Statehood Showdown’
The Washington Post fell for the hoary “Palestinian frustration” diagnosis to explain Mahmoud Abbas’ latest “statehood-without-peace” maneuver at the United Nations. CAMERA fills in the paper’s misleading omissions.
CAMERA Letter Corrects Baltimore Sun on Jerusalem Murders
The Baltimore Sun said murders at a Jerusalem synagogue deserved “the world’s unequivocal condemnation.” Then it equivocated. CAMERA did not.
New York Times Suppresses Kerry Condemnation of Palestinian Incitement
Secretary of State John Kerry said Palestinian incitement was directly responsible for yesterday's brutal murder of Jews praying in a Jerusalem synagogue. His comments were initially reported but later scrubbed by a newspaper historically adverse to covering Palestinian incitement.
After Jerusalem Massacre, New York Times Covers Up Abbas’ Incitement
The New York Times continues to cover up calls for violence by relating to incitement by the Palestinian leadership as a claim on the part of right-wing Israelis instead of providing straight reports of incitement by Mahmoud Abbas.