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.
For the second consecutive day, CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction in Ha'aretz. Today's clarification concerns a mistranslation which introduced the false claim that IDF officers must spend a week protecting illegal outposts. In response to communication from CAMERA, Ha'aretz today commendably corrects, in Hebrew and English, Gideon Levy's false claim that according to Amnesty International "only 92 Palestinian fighters" were killed in Cast Lead. CAMERA's Israel office has prompted a Ha'aretz correction today on a story in last week's print edition which wrongly stated that the United Nations recognized Palestine as a full-fledged member. CAMERA's Israel staff prompts corrections on Ha'aretz's coverage of the Ethiopian birth control controversy. Last week's English edition falsely reported that an Israeli official confirmed that Ethiopian women may have received coerced injections. Ha'aretz corrects online the latest example of "Lost in Translation." The English edition, though not the original Hebrew, wrongly stated today that 477 Palestinian prisoners were released in the Shalit deal. The actual figure is 1,027. Following Presspectiva's complaint to the Israel Press Council, Ha'aretz today runs two corrections. One article wrongly stated that Israel violated a High Court injunction by evacuating Palestinian protesters. Another blamed Israel for a Gazan's death, though the IDF denied involvement. Following communication from CAMERA's Presspectiva, Ha'aretz English editors revise an online story which blamed the Israeli army for killing Gazan Mustafa Abu Jarad, despite disputed circumstances. Another article has yet to be corrected.
The Guardian has commendably corrected the false claim that Israel's violated a High Court injunction by evacuating Palestinian protesters from their tent encampment. Why won't Ha'aretz, which boasts "the best English-language journalism in Israel," likewise correct?
Following communication from Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew branch, Ha'aretz has corrected a column by Anshel Pfeffer which had wrongly blamed Israel for the death of four-year-old Gazan Mahmoud Sadallah. CAMERA's Israel office prompted a correction in Ha'aretz on a photo caption which had wrongly placed a "Nakba Day" clash in Ramallah, when it actually took place at the Ofer military prison outside of Ramallah.