See Nov. 5 update: Questionable LA Times report. Inflammatory allegations against Israeli security officials by Mohammed Omer are outrightly denied. Discrepancies in Omer's accounts of the incident raise questions about his honesty.
The following letter was published in the August 1, 2005 edition of the New Statesman. The magazine would not publish a formal correction to the factual error addressed in the letter. An editor told CAMERA that the magazine's policy is to publish letters instead of corrections to rectify errors. But according to a news database, the magazine publishes a fair number of corrections.
Written and Presented by John Pilger
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53 minutes Australian-born, London-based journalist and filmmaker John Pilger does not pretend to deliver an objective view of his subject matter. In Pilger's world, events are seen through a lens in which America and Israel are foremost villains. And Pilger's 2002 film, "Palestine is Still the Issue," is devoted to villifying Israel as a terrorist state.