Deconstructing Baltimore Sun’s Praise of Al-Jazeera’s Gaza Coverage
The Baltimore Sun’s television critic had high praise for Al-Jazeera America’s coverage of Israeli-Hamas fighting in Gaza. Goes to show you can’t believe everything you see … Eric Rozenman
The Baltimore Sun’s television critic had high praise for Al-Jazeera America’s coverage of Israeli-Hamas fighting in Gaza. Goes to show you can’t believe everything you see … ‘Premature Palestinian Empathy Syndrome’ — CAMERA Op-Ed
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Almost at the start of Operation Protective Edge some journalists fixated on noncombatant fatalities in the Gaza Strip and a mistaken interpretation of “proportionality” in warfare. A CAMERA Op-Ed in five Jewish weeklies helped provide perspective. Daoud Kuttab’s Delusional Mahmoud Abbas Apologia in Washington Post
Daoud Kuttab’s Washington Post Op-Ed, “The end of Abbas’s peace policy” (July 17) attempted to whitewash Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ evanescent unity government with Hamas and blame Israel for Palestinian inability to make peace. Here’s the CAMERA rebuttal The Post didn’t print:
Exhibit B: USA Today Gaza Commentary an Inch Deep
USA Today’s editorial page writers apparently weren’t reading their paper’s news coverage of Israel's “Operation Preventive Edge” against Hamas’ attacks. An editorial and Op-Ed made similar, dangerously foolish points. CAMERA Highlights ‘False Equivalence’ in Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun’s editorial “A dangerous turning point in Israel” (July 8) early in “Operation Protective Edge,” erroneously posited mirror-image “growing vigilantism in Israel and the occupied territories.” A CAMERA letter, “False equivalence” (July 12) corrected those distortions.The West Bank — Jewish Territory Under International Law
“Occupied territory.” “Palestinian territory.” “Illegally occupied West Bank.” These and similar terms occur constantly in coverage of Israeli-Palestinian news. You'd never know that the West Bank is Jewish territory under international law, as Prof. Eugene Kontorovich argues. NY Times, Boston Globe Defend Anti-Israel “Death of Klinghoffer” Opera
The only major newspapers to editorially comment following New York’s Metropolitan Opera cancellation of the international simulcast of "The Death of Klinghoffer," The New York Times and Boston Globe, are either unwilling or incapable of acknowledging the stark truth that demolishes their argument for support of the opera. Max Fisher Undone by ‘Occupation’ Obsession
Max Fisher, a former Washington Post blogger now blogging for former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein at Vox Media -- and legacy media's a bit incestuous? -- is undone by his obsession with "the occupation." CAMERA corrects: It's not the Israeli occupation, stupid, it's Palestinian rejectionism. Washington Post Correction Policy and Reality Clash
The Washington Post says it 'is committed to correcting errors that appear in the newspaper.' Two recent articles suggest that commitment appears to hinge on the meaning of 'errors' and 'correcting.' UPDATED: Met Cancels Simulcast, Now Should Reject Antisemitic Opera
New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Opera, under the leadership of Peter Gelb (pictured), on June 17 cancelled plans to simulcast the John Adams/Alice Goodman opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” on theater screens around the world, reducing the potential audience for this antisemitic work by hundreds of thousands. This comes immediately after CAMERA’s successful campaign which led to a deluge of protests via letters and phone calls to The Met, to the media, and to sponsors of the simulcast and the simulcast company.