CAMERA Column in Ynet: Peace Now’s Margin of Error
Ynet.com, the English Web site of the Israeli daily newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, has published a CAMERA Op-Ed on the lack of reliability of Peace Now's claims about Israeli settlements.
Peace Now’s Blunder: Erred on Ma’ale Adumim Land by 15,900 Percent
Peace Now claimed in an October 2006 report that Israeli settlements are situated mostly on “private Palestinian land,” and in particular that the territory of the largest settlement, Ma’ale Adumim, is 86.4 percent “private Palestinian land.” Turns out they were a little off. “Israel Lobby” Professors Appear at Event of Radical Islamist Group CAIR
Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, a largely discredited report alleging that the "Israel lobby" has distorted the foreign policy of the United States to the point of serious damage to U.S. interests, appeared at a panel discussion sponsored by the radical Islamist group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations).
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Publishes CAMERA Op-Ed
After two opinion pieces in the Post-Intelligencer celebrated Seattle's hosting of a play about International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Rachel Corrie, a CAMERA guest column pointed out that the ISM's extremist ideology distorts understanding of the Middle East. The newspaper's summary of CAMERA's column reads: "Her death was tragic, but the group mentoring Corrie was geared toward more toward building hatred against Israel than toward forwarding peace."
Guardian’s False Apartheid Charges—Part II
Part two of CAMERA's investigation into Chris McGreal's Guardian feature comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa reveals more erroneous and distorted reporting by the newspaper's Middle East correspondent.
The Anti-Iraq War Movement’s Anti-Israel ANSWER
CAMERA asks: Why has the anti-war movement become so intertwined with anti-Israel acitvism?
LA Times’ Uncritical ‘Review’ of Corrie Play
In his Los Angeles Times review of the British play "My Name is Rachel Corrie," David Gritten describes Rachel Corrie as "a relatively obscure name in her native U.S," one of several distortions about the American who interfered in a closed military area in the Gaza Strip and was killed accidentally.
Chicago Tribune Public Editor Lauds Sabeel
In his October 20th column, Chicago Tribune public editor Don Wycliff weighed in on the debate surrounding Sabeel, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian Christian organization which is accused of reviving the anti-Semitic "teaching of contempt" dogma long repudiated by most of the Christian world. Wycliff stated that the organization does "classy work."
The Academic Blacklisting of Israel, the Tantura Affair and Ilan Pappe
Academic boycott of Israeli universities by the British Association of University Teachers, among the first to jump onto the BDS bandwagon, was based in large part on charges relating to Zionist ideologue Ilan Pappé's unscholarly promotion of a contested claim of an Israeli-perpetrated massacre of Arabs in Tantura. What were the claims? How did Pappé promote them? And how was it used as a pretext for boycott?