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Double Standards in Headlines

Many headlines continue to present violence against Israelis differently from that against Palestinians. The latest examples were headlines that appeared following the killing of 7-month-old Shaked Avraham who was shot by a Palestinian terrorist on the Jewish New Year.

BBC-WATCH: BBC Blames Israel Again

The two homicide bombings that rocked the Middle East on August 19, 2003 – targeting in Baghdad UN workers who had come to rebuild the country, and in Jerusalem Jewish families with young children returning from prayer at the Western Wall – elicited early sympathetic reaction on BBC. But it didn’t take very long for the network’s Web site to start implying fault on Israel’s part.

New Web Feature: CAMERA Inaugurates BBC-Watch and Washington Post-Watch

Located under "Action Items" on the CAMERA home page is a new feature focusing on two leading news organizations, the BBC and The Washington Post. BBC-Watch will help expose the severe anti-Israel bias in BBC news coverage. CAMERA's Washington Post-Watch feature also will help spark quick reader responses to coverage in one of America's leading daily newspapers.