E-1 Building

April 19, 2005

Updated: The “Contiguity” Double Standard

After Israel approved building a new neighborhood in Ma'aleh Adumim, a few miles east of Jerusalem, many news reports wrongly indicated that such building would prevent Palestinians from controlling "contiguous territory" in the West Bank. 
August 30, 2026

Dear CNN, The Map Never Lies 

Following communication from CAMERA, CNN cosmetically tweaked its report on the E1 settlement plan, leaving its core falsehood intact: that new construction would sever the West Bank and render a contiguous Palestinian state "virtually impossible." CAMERA breaks down why boundaries, infrastructure, and the map itself tell a different story.
August 28, 2026

BBC Misleads on E-1

The BBC has duties to its audience, set down in clear editorial guidelines. The pressing question is why does it continually break them on reporting around Israel, and why do those failures only tend in one direction.
The logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
February 24, 2026

The BBC and the one-sided land dispute

In order to meet its obligations to provide audiences with balanced and fair reporting, the BBC would have to consider the Palestinian people as equally capable of being political actors in their own right, something which unfortunately happens all too rarely.
January 8, 2026

E-1 Contiguity Crock Enjoys Journalistic Revival

A right-wing Israeli minister and anti-settlement activists on the opposite end of the political spectrum agree that Israel's E-1 construction plan would slice the West Bank in two. Despite this novel alignment, the map hasn't changed. The journalistic fallacy remains as false today as it was in 2012 when The New York Times issued a significant correction.
October 13, 2021

Haaretz Gets Lost On E-1 Construction, Contiguity

Contradicting its own previous coverage as well as the actual geography, Haaretz erroneously reports that construction in the E-1 area, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim to the east, would divide the West Bank in two.
January 9, 2013

E-1 Building Does Not Cut West Bank in Two

CAMERA letter in the Washington Jewish Week rebuts claim by J Street's Alan Elsner that building in the "E-1" corridor linking Jerusalem with Ma'ale Adumim "would cut the West Bank in two."
December 11, 2012

CAMERA’s Letter to the Editor in USA TODAY

USA TODAY ("Netanyahu's arrogance threatens peace prospects," December 6) blamed Israel and its prime minister, instead of repeated Palestinian rejections, for the absence of peace. CAMERA's December 11 letter to the editor spotlights the editorial's pretzel logic.
December 10, 2012

Media Embrace E1 Falsehoods

Instead of investigating activist claims that the building in E1 bisects the West Bank and cuts off access to Jerusalem, much of the media has simply echoed the false accusations.