Ricki Hollander

July 27, 2006

New York Times Story on UN Position Hit by Israel Omits Crucial Context

A July 27 article in the New York Times about four UN officers killed in an outpost hit by Israeli fire ("U.N. Says It Protested to Israel for 6 Hours During Attack That Killed 4 Observers in Lebanon" by Warren Hoge), omitted crucial context about Hezbollah firing from or near UN positions.
July 17, 2006

BBC Does Not Give “Full and Fair Account” of Middle East Conflict

An independent panel commissioned by BBC's Board of Governors stated that the BBC does not consistently give a full and fair account of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Nowhere is this more evident than in the network's reporting on the latest crisis in Israel, Lebanon and Gaza.
July 12, 2006

New York Times Tilts Toward Palestinians

The New York Times seems to be slipping back into a pattern of coverage skewed toward Palestinian perspectives in its headlines, human interest stories and characterizations of terrorist actions and counter-actions.
June 29, 2006

BBC News or BBC Propaganda?

The BBC is not only overtly partisan in its Web site article choices, it  misleads readers with a false, propagandistic version of the situation.  A  recent article entitled "Palestinians back prisoner release call" fails to inform readers that the protagonist interviewed was himself imprisoned for attempting to kidnap an Israeli soldier and that his wife had been imprisoned for planning a suicide bombing. 
June 26, 2006

New York Times Apologetics for Terror

CAMERA has repeatedly faulted the New York Times for whitewashing and excusing Palestinian terrorism and repeating terroristsí¢â‚¬™ claims at face value. Faced with a newly published volume ("Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad," by Matthew Levitt, Yale University Press, 2006) that exposes the Hamas organizationí¢â‚¬™s single-minded goal of jihad against Israel, the Times review of the book once more rationalizes the terrorist nature of the organization.
June 26, 2006

Charles Enderlin: Further Cover-Up of Al Dura Affair?

Faced with criticism of his coverage of the recent Gaza beach explosion which killed seven members of a Palestinian family, France 2 Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin, is once more retreating behind a shield of lies. According to Metulla News Agency, Enderlin distorted facts to discredit an investigation that indicated the journalist had misrepresented the entire incident.
June 14, 2006

Updated: New York Times Accurately Reports on IDF Investigation

UPDATED: CAMERA has faulted the New York Times for sticking to its blame of Israel for a June 9 Gaza explosion despite evidence to the contrary.  On June 14, the  New York Times  reported  Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz's  press conference about the IDF investigation into the explosion which concluded that Israel was not to blame.  The article by Steven Erlanger and Ian Fisher also accurately attribute the idea of an "errant Israeli shell" being the source of the explosion to Gaza residents.

June 12, 2006

Israel Should Not Be Presumed Guilty of Gaza Beach Deaths

Much has been reported about an explosion on a Gaza beach on June 9, 2006 which killed 7 people, including 3 children. There has been a video shown repeatedly of a young girl wailing with grief there, coming upon the dead body of her father, and photographs from this video displayed in newspapers. The media is reacting to this incident much as they did five years ago with the case of Mohammed Al Dura. But like that case, it is becoming doubtful that the explosion was from an Israeli source.
May 16, 2006

New York Times Publishes Moving Article About Israeli Terror Victim

On May 15, in the wake of the funerals of two more victims of the April 17th Palestinian terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, the New York Times published a powerful and moving human interest story about terror victim Lior Anidzar.  CAMERA criticized the New York Times on May 2nd for its disproportionate emphasis on human interest stories depicting Palestinian suffering with little focus on the human dimension of terrrorism's impact on Israeli lives. With this moving and evocative article, the newspaper has helped offset the imbalance.
May 11, 2006

Human Interest Stories in New York Times Skewed Toward Palestinians

On May 2nd, 2006, the New York Times published a detailed, emotive human interest story on a Palestinian family whose northern Gaza house was hit by an Israeli artillery shell fired in response to Kassam rockets launched from the area. While Israelis have been terrorized by daily Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks, Israeli suffering is generally presented only by dry facts and figures.The Times puts a human face primarily on Palestinian suffering. The result? Skewed emphasis on the Palestinian toll in the conflict.