CAMERA Prompts Correction on “Banned” Weapons
Shortly after running a headline that wrongly claimed Israel used "banned" shells during its war with Hezbollah, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a correction.
Lebanon Wars
Makdisi Op-Ed in LA Times Replete with False Charges Against Israel
UCLA professor Saree Makdisi weighed in on the Israel/Hezbollah war with an LA Times Op-Ed. filled with false charges against Israel.
Video: Casualty Count Distortions and Hezbollah Propaganda
A video companion to CAMERA's work exposing the Hezbollah propaganda campaign of this summer. The terrorist group had claimed that in the fighting against Israel which it started, most of the Lebanese casualties were civilians, and that few Hezbollah fighters had been killed. In fact, the evidence suggests that most of those killed were Hezbollah fighters.
AFP Buries UN Criticism of Hezbollah, Highlights Criticism of Israel
Agence France Presse, an international news service that last year covered up U.S. demands on Syria to stop supporting Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, is again doctoring news about Hezbollah.
BACKGROUNDER: Hezbollah’s Media Weapon
Over the past six years, Hezbollah's use of the media against Israel has intensified. In addition to Al Manar television, the organization's official propaganda instrument, Hezbollah utilizes other Arab news stations and even the international press. CAMERA describes how Hezbollah has employed the media to convey its message to the world.
New York Times Mangles Sheba Farms Issue
In this Sunday's New York Times, reporter Craig Smith wrote 1179 words on the so-called Sheba Farms issue, and after presenting the basics more or less accurately, still managed to omit virtually every key fact. For example, if Sheba were turned over to Lebanon, Hezbollah has already claimed other land in Israel as belonging to Lebanon, and therefore in need of "liberation."
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Failures in Coverage of Hezbollah Continue
CAMERA and Human Rights Watch: An Exchange
After a CAMERA article criticized Human Rights Watch for implying Hezbollah did not use the Lebanese towns of Srifa and Marwaheen as staging areas to attack Israel, HRW contacted CAMERA to challenge several of the assertions in the article. The HRW letter and CAMERA's response follow.
Christian Century Stonewalling on Star Columnist’s Error
Christian Century magazine, the house organ for mainline Protestantism in the United States, has refused to correct an incontrovertible misstatement of fact in a column written by its star columnist, James M. Wall.
Questioning the Number of Civilian Casualties in Lebanon
The perception that Israel's response to Hezbollah attacks was disproportionate, and that indiscriminate force was aimed at the Lebanese population, was largely a result of media reports on the casualty breakdown in Lebanon. But there is plenty of reason to doubt often repeated claims that almost all Lebanese casualties were civilians.