Yahoo! Takes Sides with Kevin Sites
Despite pledges of impartiality, the internet reporter features subjects on both sides of the conflict who share the same view of Israeli brutality and Palestinian victimization
Intimidation of Journalists
‘Honor Killing’ or Robbery?
According to multiple media accounts, young Yusra al-Azami, an engaged student from Gaza, was executed several days ago in an "honor killing," and her fiancé and future-brother-in-law were brutally beaten by members of Hamas' "vice and virtue" unit. Ha'aretz, often considered Israel's "leading daily," passed the "honor killing" off as a robbery.
Arafat Loyalists Intimidate the Press
Jerusalem Post correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh has chronicled the difficult circumstances journalists face in the Palestinian-run territories. Recently he reported that the Arafat-affiliated Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) warned Palestinian journalists to stop covering street marches by gunmen in Gaza and clashes between rival groups.
CAMERA Op-Ed: CNN’s Compromise
CNN executive Eason Jordan's dramatic acknowledgment in a New York Times op-ed ("The News We Kept to Ourselves," April 11, 2003) that for more than a decade his network concealed gruesome information about Saddam Hussein's regime lifts the rock a notch off the dark underside of media collaboration with barbarous dictators.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Media’s Selective Martyrology
Coverage of the story of Rachel Corrie, the American college student and Palestinian advocate killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza while attempting to block a house demolition, followed predictable trends.
Reporting Under Repression
In a surprisingly candid op-ed (“The News We Kept to Ourselves”) in the April 11, 2003 edition of the New York Times, CNN's chief news executive, Eason Jordan, reveals that due to the real threat of torture and death to his staff and sources, CNN has for years been sanitizing its reporting from Iraq, rarely exposing the severely brutal nature of the Iraqi regime.
Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh Threatened by Palestinian Official
On September 24, 2002 the Jerusalem Post's reported that a senior aide to Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Ahmed Qurei was arrested in Jerusalem for threatening Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh over an article he wrote.
Despite Terror Attacks, NPR Maintains Blacklist of Leading Terror Expert
"The foreign terrorist threat in the United States is one of the most important issues we face as a society today ... [there are] distinct possibilities of mass civilian murder the likes of which have not been seen since World War II." These were the prescient words of Steven Emerson, testifying before the Senate almost four years ago...
PA Blocks Coverage of Palestinians Cheering 9/11 Attacks
CAMERA Op-Ed: Arafat’s Incitement, Lies, and Videotape
In May, days before a Palestinian suicide terrorist murdered a score of Israelis, most of them young teenage girls, Yasir Arafat delivered yet another of his propaganda screeds, this time before the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Qatar. While repeatedly lauding Palestinians for "irrigating the land with their blood" in the struggle for "Palestine" he let loose a tirade of lies against Israel.