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.
Land Issues:
Israeli, Palestinian and Bedouin
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.
The Professor’s Truth Demolition
Israeli-American Jeff Halper tours campuses and publishes Op-Eds castigating Israel. His facts don't check out.
BBC Correspondent Demonstrates Bias
BBC airs a weekly programme, "From Our Own Correspondent," presenting the personal perspectives of the network's news reporters on the stories they cover. What the BBC does not acknowledge is that the programme is frequently used as a platform for propaganda – a means for partisan BBC correspondents who cover world conflicts to champion the position of the side they favor.
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.
Washington Post Distorts Building in Jerusalem
Washington Post correspondent John Ward Anderson has
teamed up with Israel’s critics in a Post "investigation"
indicting the Israeli government and Jewish groups for "consolidating
their grip on strategic locations." The result is a highly distorted account of
construction in Jerusalem with the broad implication that Jews
have no right to move into or build in predominantly Arab neighborhoods regardless of
historical and legal claims to property.