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.
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.
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."
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?
The U.S.-based, non-governmental organization (NGO), Human Rights Watch, is a self-appointed arbiter of human rights abuses around the world. Theirs would be a noble and worthy mission if it were carried out objectively, without regard to political or ideological agenda. Regrettably, this is not the case.
“Public Health News” is a British weekly print and online journal distributed free of charge to British public health
professionals, with a circulation of over 14,000. A collaborative project of such eminent professional
organizations as the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Chartered Institute
of Environmental Health, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the
Faculty of Public Health, and others, it provides news and features on the
latest issues in this medically-related field. It is puzzling and disturbing that such a publication would turn – not
to a health professional – but to an anti-Israel activist for an article
on health issues in the West Bank and Gaza. The author, Sarah Irving, is part
of the notorious International Solidarity Movement, a group that justifies
terrorism and supports “armed struggle” against Israel.
The Cape Cod Times whitewashes the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in its July 5, 2004 feature "Mideast sojourn inspires activist" by Karen Jeffrey. The article lionizes the group and one of its activists, Neal Ahern. While the piece notes that a member of the Canadian Parliament nominated the organization for a Nobel Peace Prize, it does not include a single mention of the many controversial statements or actions of ISM and its members.
A poisonous anti-Israel road show is making its way across America for a second year, this winter landing in eighteen cities. Jeff Halper, coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and Salim Shawamreh, a Palestinian whose house has been torn down by Israel because of zoning violations, have brought accusations of Israeli apartheid, Nazism and racism to universities, churches, community groups and even the occasional synagogue and Hillel. Newspapers and radio talk-shows too have been enlisted to reach the public...
