Land Issues:
Israeli, Palestinian and Bedouin
WASHINGTON POST WATCH: Washington Post Defends ‘Arab Jerusalem’
UPDATE: Peace Now Map Based Only on Palestinian Claims
Israeli official: Leaked Peace Now map regarding "private Palestinian land" was based only on Palestinian claims and was used to keep track of those claims, many of which have been debunked. Peace Now’s Report on Settlement Land
How credible are the data and analysis in a new Peace Now report claiming that "a large proportion of the settlements built on the West Bank are built on privately owned Palestinian land"? Yitzhak Laor Pushes Land Lies in Ha’aretz
A far-left radical, Laor fabricates claims of Israeli misconduct and Ha'aretz readily prints them without regard to accuracy.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Almost All Right on Lebanon
Student Op-Ed in Carnegie Mellon Paper Gets Failing Grade
Hanadie Yousef, a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, published a column Oct. 17 in the school newspaper, the Tartan. The column, "Pullout from Gaza City is a Charade," repeated numerous falsehoods and canards which have earlier appeared in mainstream media outlets, some of which were subsequently corrected for the record. CAMERA awaits word as to whether the Tartan will correct as well.
Trouble in Philly with Errors, Imbalance and Editorializing
The Philadelphia Inquirer violates its own ethics code calling for 'accuracy and fairness'
Updated: The Globe and Mail’s False Witness
Carolynne Wheeler, a freelancer for the Globe and Mail, writes as if she were on the scene of the Sharon-Abbas meeting, stating "Palestinian leaders left the meeting in Mr. Sharon's flag-draped residence in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City grim-faced." Only, she couldn't have been there, because the summit actually took place in the western part of the city, not the Old City. Other journalists have been fired pretending to attend events.
USA Today Errs on Jerusalem Home Demolitions
USA Today presents a misleading, one-sided picture of home
demolitions in Israel's capital in “Jerusalem's future banging on
residents' doors; Several dozen Palestinian homes slated for demolition,”
June 21.