CAMERA Asks Christian Century to Correct Wall’s Errors
CAMERA asked the Christian Century to correct the errors of its longtime columnist. The magazine's editor and publisher, Rev. John M. Buchanan, refused. Christian Issues
CAMERA asked the Christian Century to correct the errors of its longtime columnist. The magazine's editor and publisher, Rev. John M. Buchanan, refused. CAMERA Clarifies Sabeel’s Agenda in Jewish Advocate
CAMERA Christian Media Analyst Dexter Van Zile clarified Sabeel's true agenda in a letter to the editor in the January 18, 2007 edition of the Jewish Advocate.
The Bethlehem Formula — Using the Christmas Story to Defame Israel
During the 2006 holiday season, Israel's Christian critics used Bethlehem, the scene of Jesus's birth, as a centerpiece for a distorted narrative that portrays Israel as an aggressor nation and the Palestinians as blameless victims. Rev. Wall Fails to Disclose Connection to Carter Campaigns
In a piece defending Jimmy Carter’s book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Rev. James Wall, senior contributing editor of Christian Century, fails to disclose that he ran the former president’s political campaigns in Illinois during the 1976 and 1980 elections. CAMERA Petitions Presiding Bishop for Web Corrections
The Episcopal Church's Executive Committee approved a resolution urging Hamas to acknowledge Israel's right to exist and to abide by previous agreements, but distortions remain on the church Web Site. Rev. Wall Soft-Pedals Hamas Extremism
James M. Wall, star columnist for Christian Century, the house organ for mainline Protestantism in the U.S., downplays Hamas rejectionism when he insists Israel and the United States should accept Hamas's hudna at face value. CAMERA Challenges Episcopal Church on Distorted Narrative
CAMERA sent letters to officials at the Episcopal Church expressing concern about Church's one-sided and distorted narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Episcopal Church’s Anti-Israel Media Campaign
The Episcopal Church's leaders and constitutive bodies routinely issue one-sided anti- Israel statements, and church publications portray Israel as exclusively responsible for violence in the region. The church has also provided substantial support for anti-Israel activists in both the U.S. and the Middle East. Its so-called peace activism amounts to an ad hoc anti-Israel media campaign that serves to delegitimize Israel's rightful place amongst the nations of the world.
Arab Christian Groups Villify Israel
Palestinian Christian leaders are offering a distorted narrative of the recent round of fighting between Israel and its adversaries, Hamas and Hezbollah, demonstrating once again their propensity to denigrate the Jewish homeland to Western audiences.
Mainline Christian Churches Respond to Hamas and Hezbollah Aggression
Mainline Christian churches and their umbrella organizations have routinely characterized the Arab-Israeli conflict as a consequence of Israeli intransigence and have ignored Arab refusal to accept the existence of a Jewish State in the Middle East. This trend persists in the face of recent attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah.