Accuracy and accountability are among the most important tenets of journalism. In combination, they mean media organizations are expected to publish or broadcast forthright corrections after sharing inaccurate information. The following corrections are among the many prompted by CAMERA’s communication with reporters and editors.
Along with the "tsunami" of emigration is a flood of Israeli media misreporting including factual errors, misunderstanding of demographic concepts and the failure to provide critical context. UPDATE: Ynet deletes erroneous references to a "negative migration balance" and adds key context on the departure of recent immigrants who had fled the Russia-Ukraine war.
CAMERA prompts correction at Haaretz's English edition after the Israeli daily whitewashed arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti's responsibility for multiple deadly attacks as "alleged." The improved digital copy now notes the terror leader's convictions for deadly attacks.
For the second time in four months, and 736 days since Hamas and other terrorists kidnapped 251 Israelis and foreigners, CAMERA prompts correction of Haaretz's mischaracterization of the hostages as prisoners.
CAMERA prompts corrections after Haaretz's English edition misidentified the three kidnapped teens as "settlers" and omitted the fact that the young victims were murdered. The paper also corrects the claim that former MK Haneen Zoabi was "arrested." In fact, she was detained a few hours for questioning.
CAMERA's Hebrew department prompted corrections in both English and Hebrew after the Israeli daily Haaretz erroneously repeated the false canard that the Gaza Strip is the world's most densely populated place.
The Jerusalem Post is to be commended for entirely withdrawing an article which had wrongly reported that Passover hikers passed over the border into Syria. And while Haaretz slightly readjusted its navigational heading, Ynet remains stuck in the mud.
CAMERA prompts New York Times and Haaretz corrections after both media outlets wrongly reported that Israel's decision to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip impacted a wastewater treatment plant. In fact, the lone affected facility was a desalination plant.
CAMERA prompts corrections in both English and Hebrew after Haaretz wrongly reported that Israeli defense officials had estimated that 300 were killed in the Israeli airstrike which targeted Hassan Nasrallah. In fact, an early Israeli estimated cited 300 casualties (not fatalities) and Lebanese officials cited six fatalities.
Haaretz had initially reported Hamas' unsubstantiated claim that Israeli hostages were killed during the successful June 8 rescue operation without noting the IDF denial.
