Inside Israel’s Army (2009)
Produced by Michal Zilberman and Michele Mitchell
NOW (PBS) Host: David Bracaccio
60 minutes
Aired on July 17, 2009
This review looks at two incisive documentaries: that aired on PBS, one about efforts to build peace in Jenin and the other about Israeli reservists who served during war with Lebanon and Gaza.
This review looks at two incisive documentaries: that aired on PBS, one about efforts to build peace in Jenin and the other about Israeli reservists who served during war with Lebanon and Gaza.
CAMERA's letter in the Columbia Journalism Review noted that news organizations across the world bungled the story and misled audiences by treating as fact disproven rumors that Israeli soldiers shot unarmed women in Gaza. 
Ha’aretz again launches a campaign of erroneous accusations about Israel, this time concerning restrictions on goods entering the Gaza Strip. Among this week's falsehoods: Israel prohibits the entry of diapers and toilet paper and has just one crossing to transfer goods.
The BBC Trust's ruling that its Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen violated the broadcaster's ethical guidelines calling for impartiality and accuracy amplifies concerns that BBC News coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict is largely biased against Israel. 
George Bisharat, a law professor at UC Hastings, has the very unfortunate habit of leveling blatantly false charges in his anti-Israel op-eds, which just as unfortunately sometimes get published in major newspapers. 
The New York Times' unfair overemphasis on allegations of Israeli misdeeds relative to similar, and sometimes more credible, stories about Americans is, simply put, discrimination against the Jewish state. 
While rumors that a Palestinian mother and her children were deliberately killed have been discredited, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights claims that Abir Hiljeh's story proves the allegation. But their own documents don't support her story.