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.
Overview of Recent NPR Bias
Listeners asked to donate to NPR should consider its continuing, slanted coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as its lopsided reporting about Jewish American and Muslim American concerns.
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."
Ha’aretz’s ‘Quiet’ Myth
"Since the 1996 elections in Israel, and almost through the end of Ehud Barak's government, there was quite a long period of quiet on the security front. There were almost no terror attacks," asserts Ha'aretz's Danny Rubinstein today. In this so-called period of quiet, some 63 Israelis were killed in more than 40 terror attacks including stabbings, bombings and shootings.
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.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Failures in Coverage of Hezbollah Continue
Gideon Levy’s Hot Air on Prisoner Releases
As the facts dramatically underscore that Israel's release of some 10,000 prisoners in the last two decades has yielded no "dizzying political change," Gideon Levy's claim in Ha'aretz that a prisoner release could yield "a breath of fresh air" is nothing more than stale hot air.