CAMERA Arabic prompts correction at Al Hurra after the U.S. news outlet republished an Arabic AFP article which failed to report that two Palestinian fatalities were members of Islamic Jihad, a designated terror group.
Ashraf Ibrahim, killed in a gunbattle with Israeli troops, was a Palestinian intelligence officer. He also moonlighted as a fighter with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a designated terrorist organization affiliated with Fatah. News stories reported the former work while leaving out the latter.
Weaponized usage of a single key word can propagate an insidious blood libel. CAMERA prompts correction after Reuters mischaracterized confirmed terrorist leaders targeted by Israel as "alleged Islamic Jihad commanders."
CAMERA prompts quick improvements after AP initially buried the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade affiliation of three fighters killed this morning near Nablus and underreported the number of combatants killed earlier this month in Gaza.
CAMERA Arabic prompts Reuters corrections in both English and Arabic after misreporting about Palestinian fatalities in an Israeli military raid in Nablus understated the number of combatants and overstated the number of civilians.
CAMERA prompts correction after Haaretz's English edition erroneously stated that a Palestinian gunman fired on two Israeli men. In fact, the Huwara gunman fired on David and Rachel Stern, a husband and wife couple.
CAMERA prompted corrections after a caption mistakenly referred to a deadly terror attack in Kiryat Arba as "attempted." In fact, as the accompanying article itself made clear, the Palestinian terrorist succeeded in fatally shooting Israeli Ronen Hanania.
CAMERA prompts improvement of AP captions about a Palestinian killed at a checkpoint after the texts initially omitted the army's information that Abdullah Qalalweh attempted to attack a soldier and ignored warning shots to retreat.
Israeli Arab terrorists Karim and Maher Younis were convicted of the 1980 kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg. It's amazing how many facts about this case were misreported. With Arabic and English corrections at Reuters, AFP, France 24 and more, only The Jerusalem Post remains impervious to requests to set the record straight.
"It's true that we live in an era where the facts are less and less relevant. But there is someone who insists on them," writes Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini. In 2022, CAMERA buckled down on the facts, prompting a record 245 corrections in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
