Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson makes little pretense of offering readers a balanced view of what Mahmoud Abbas is facing -- and accomplishing. She opts for a view through the prism of Palestinian sentiment.
In an April 13 Associated Press story on a German film about Hitler currently being screened in Israel, reporter Josef Federman includes a shockingly inflammatory statement alleging Israeli manipulation of the memory of the Holocaust.
After Israel approved building a new neighborhood in Ma'aleh Adumim, a few miles east of Jerusalem, many news reports wrongly indicated that such building would prevent Palestinians from controlling "contiguous territory" in the West Bank.
In the wake of student allegations against Joseph Massad and the grave criticisms of him by Columbia's Ad Hoc Committee, the New York Times publishes a puff piece calling Massad "a fan of free speech."
The Associated Press once again downplays Palestinian terror. A March 18, 2004 ;article by Mohammed Daraghmeh not only equates Israeli demonstrators with Palestinian terrorists, but minimizes the activities of those terrorists.
After the Portsmouth Herald publishes an error-filled opinion column claiming that Israel is the only obstacle to Middle East peace, CAMERA corrects some of the false assertions, setting the record straight with an op-ed of its own.
CAMERA's letter highlights that according to numerous United Nations resolutions, Israel's security fence does not run through Palestinian territory, and the "Green Line" is not a border.