Iran’s missile barrages into Israel have killed 24 Israelis, all civilians. But in stark contrast to its coverage of Israeli warfare, the paper has been uninterested in exploring whether ballistic missile fire into Israeli residential buildings violates international law.
Is Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip illegal under international law? Ignoring the U.N.'s unequivocal finding that the blockade is legal and militarily justified, AP leaves readers to believe the answer is blowing in the wind.
Conflating illegal forced displacement with Israel's temporary evacuation of civilians for their own safety, Deutsche Welle casts Israel's evacuation of Gaza Strip residents from combat areas for their protection as no less than a potential crime against humanity.
As a music magazine, Rolling Stone has no obligation to cover these events at all. Yet it not only chooses to do so, it chooses to do it in a manner that misinforms and misleads its readers. This is the last of a three-part series.
After CAMERA prompts a significant correction of AP's absurd assertion that "[i]nternational law gives Palestinian refugees and their descendants the right to return to their homes," several dozens secondary media outlets correct.
The so-called "right of return" has been a fundamental Palestinian demand ever since the initial effort to eliminate the nascent state of Israel failed 76 years ago, but now AP has upgraded the unfulfilled aspiration into international law.
A recent report cited unnamed sources who claimed that Hezbollah is using Beirut airport to store weapons. But as CAMERA tells the Washington Examiner there’s a long history of Hezbollah using ports of entry to store weapons.
Media outlets, including CNN, cannot simply treat UN and ICC figures as neutral, unbiased sources whose claims can be left uncontextualized or unchallenged. In times of war, journalists must be extra careful, too. To do otherwise is to risk playing a part in Hamas’ cynical use of human shields and civilian deaths.
