Hamas

October 11, 2005

Star Tribune Editors Exonerate Hamas

The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) stands by highly disturbing changes they made to an Associated Press story. The newspaper removed key information so that readers were left with the misleading impression that Israel alone is blamed for a Sept. 23 explosion in Gaza that killed many – an explosion that Palestinian eyewitnesses and even the Palestinian Authority blame on Hamas.
September 17, 2005

New York Times Reports Palestinian Obligations as Israeli Demands

In his story on upcoming Palestinian elections, "Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs," (Sept. 17, 2005), reporter Joel Brinkley portrayed as a unilateral Israeli demand what is in fact a Palestinian obligation under the Oslo Accords to bar terror groups from elections. In a further display of bias Brinkley ignored all other Palestinian obligations under the various peace plans as well, but did note an alleged Israeli violation of the Road Map.

August 27, 2005

New York Times Interviewers Cook Rice Statements

When New York Times reporters Joel Brinkley and Steven Weisman interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a few days ago, she apparently didn't say what they wanted to hear regarding Israel. So the enterprising reporters twisted her words to fit their own political agenda.
July 1, 2005

Washington Post Sanitizes Hamas

Errors of emphasis, omissions, imbalance, and lack of context make a story by the Post's new Israel correspondent highly misleading, and show that a new correspondent is not enough; the paper needs a new paradigm in its Arab-Israeli coverage.
May 31, 2005

New York Times Misrepresents Hamas

By misprepresenting in a May 26 story the long-term mission of Hamas, the New York Times propagated a media pattern of minimizing the motivations, actions, and goals of anti-Israel terrorist groups.
January 22, 2005

CAMERA Action Prompts Improvement at ABCnews.com

ABCnews.com features a permanent interactive item which provides background information on Hamas. The article had originally whitewashed the group's goals and sources of funding from abroad. Editors are to be commended for making the following changes after having heard from CAMERA staff.
December 15, 2004

Hamas Preacher Says BBC Correspondent is ‘Hamas Man’

A leading Hamas preacher was caught on tape saying that a BBC correspondent slants his reports to favor Muslims. A story in the Israeli daily Haaretz reports that Fathi Hamad, a preacher responsible for Hamas' communications system in Gaza, said "that Hamas man Faiz Abu Smala works for the BBC, 'and that way he writes the story in favor of the Islam [sic] and Muslims'" (Arnon Regular, "Leading Hamas preacher warns of clash with Islamic Jihad," 12/15/04).

September 2, 2004

Providing a Platform for Propaganda

After carrying out double suicide bombings which killed 16 and wounded over 100, Hamas distributed leaflets calling the attacks a message to Israel that her military efforts against the organization have failed. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Reuters provided a platform for the terrorist group's propaganda, blindly disseminating Hamas' bravado as fact.