The Professor’s Truth Demolition
Israeli-American Jeff Halper tours campuses and publishes Op-Eds castigating Israel. His facts don't check out.
Hezbollah Revisionism at the AP. Again.
A May 11 Associated Press dispatch about a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon minimizes Hezbollah's history of violence against Israel.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Hate Indoctrination and Media Blindness
The wish to see a resolution of the grueling Arab-Israeli conflict is both understandable and perilous for journalists. During the Oslo period, wishes all too often stood in for facts, with a constant blind eye turned to the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate industry spawned by Arafat and the Palestinian Authority.
Reporting Through A Palestinian Prism at Knight Ridder
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson makes little pretense of offering readers a balanced view of what Mahmoud Abbas is facing -- and accomplishing. She opts for a view through the prism of Palestinian sentiment.
The Washington Post on Syria in Lebanon
While Syrian troops reportedly completed their withdrawal from Lebanon on April 26, ending their 29-year occupation, the >Washington Post foreign news coverage avoided the "o" word – occupation – in regard to Syrian forces in Lebanon almost completely.
Daniel Okrent’s False Symmetry
Daniel Okrent is soon to conclude his tenure as the New York Times' Public Editor (ombudsman). In his post, he often listened seriously to reader comment and on occasion concurred with criticism of the paper.He also encouraged systematic corrections on the opinion pages. Given this independent-minded approach, Okrent's April 24 commentary on Middle East coverage disappointed on many counts, omitting or glossing over tough issues and resorting ultimately to platitudes about how difficult it is for the paper to "walk down the middle."
AP Claims that Israeli Politicians Exploit Holocaust
In an April 13 Associated Press story on a German film about Hitler currently being screened in Israel, reporter Josef Federman includes a shockingly inflammatory statement alleging Israeli manipulation of the memory of the Holocaust.
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.
‘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.
CAMERA Letter in Los Angeles Times Educates On West Bank Contiguity
A CAMERA letter published in the Los Angeles Times points out that the expansion of Maale Adumim would not affect north-south contiguity for West Bank Palestinians, nor would it isolate Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem.