New York Times

June 25, 2006

Prisoners’ Document: Peace Plan or “Phased Plan”?

Much of the media is misreporting the substance of the referendum proposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the so-called Prisoners' Document presented in the referendum. Reports claiming the document is a "peace plan" or that it accepts a two-state solution recognizing Israel are selling an idea of Hamas moderation that has little, if any, basis. While such overenthusiastic extrapolation might be acceptable in an opinion or analysis piece, news stories should stick to reporting the facts.
June 14, 2006

Updated: New York Times Accurately Reports on IDF Investigation

UPDATED: CAMERA has faulted the New York Times for sticking to its blame of Israel for a June 9 Gaza explosion despite evidence to the contrary.  On June 14, the  New York Times  reported  Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz's  press conference about the IDF investigation into the explosion which concluded that Israel was not to blame.  The article by Steven Erlanger and Ian Fisher also accurately attribute the idea of an "errant Israeli shell" being the source of the explosion to Gaza residents.

June 12, 2006

Israel Should Not Be Presumed Guilty of Gaza Beach Deaths

Much has been reported about an explosion on a Gaza beach on June 9, 2006 which killed 7 people, including 3 children. There has been a video shown repeatedly of a young girl wailing with grief there, coming upon the dead body of her father, and photographs from this video displayed in newspapers. The media is reacting to this incident much as they did five years ago with the case of Mohammed Al Dura. But like that case, it is becoming doubtful that the explosion was from an Israeli source.
May 16, 2006

New York Times Publishes Moving Article About Israeli Terror Victim

On May 15, in the wake of the funerals of two more victims of the April 17th Palestinian terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, the New York Times published a powerful and moving human interest story about terror victim Lior Anidzar.  CAMERA criticized the New York Times on May 2nd for its disproportionate emphasis on human interest stories depicting Palestinian suffering with little focus on the human dimension of terrrorism's impact on Israeli lives. With this moving and evocative article, the newspaper has helped offset the imbalance.
May 11, 2006

Human Interest Stories in New York Times Skewed Toward Palestinians

On May 2nd, 2006, the New York Times published a detailed, emotive human interest story on a Palestinian family whose northern Gaza house was hit by an Israeli artillery shell fired in response to Kassam rockets launched from the area. While Israelis have been terrorized by daily Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks, Israeli suffering is generally presented only by dry facts and figures.The Times puts a human face primarily on Palestinian suffering. The result? Skewed emphasis on the Palestinian toll in the conflict.
April 19, 2006

Tony Judt, the New York Times, and the anti-Israel bandwagon

Whom did the New York Times choose to write an op-ed about the controversy over claims by two academics that the "Israel Lobby" distorts U.S. foreign policy to the detriment of U.S. interests? None other than Tony Judt, who has called Israel an "anachronism" which should be done away with.

September 17, 2005

New York Times Reports Palestinian Obligations as Israeli Demands

In his story on upcoming Palestinian elections, "Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs," (Sept. 17, 2005), reporter Joel Brinkley portrayed as a unilateral Israeli demand what is in fact a Palestinian obligation under the Oslo Accords to bar terror groups from elections. In a further display of bias Brinkley ignored all other Palestinian obligations under the various peace plans as well, but did note an alleged Israeli violation of the Road Map.

September 15, 2005

IHT Fabricates Purpose of Bush-Sharon Meeting

The International Herald Tribune, published by the New York Times, has taken a page from the Times' book of journalistic wrongdoing. The Times earlier distorted the Bush Administration's decision to not pressure Sharon about West Bank settlements, and now the Tribune falsely claims that the Bush-Sharon meeting yesterday was "intended to press Sharon to move . . . on the West Bank."
September 9, 2005

The New York Times Sort of Corrects Distorted Rice Interview

In a stunning reversal, with no admission of error, the New York Times has withdrawn its claims that after the Gaza withdrawal the Bush administration will demand further imminent concessions from Israel, and is now reporting the opposite.

September 1, 2005

The Times’ Compromised Coverage of the Columbia Controversy

Since the release last fall of the documentary film Columbia Unbecoming in which students accused professors in the Middle East studies department of academic intimidation, Columbia University has been embroiled in a controversy which garnered international headlines.