May 16, 2006

New York Times Publishes Moving Article About Israeli Terror Victim

On May 15, in the wake of the funerals of two more victims of the April 17th Palestinian terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, the New York Times published a powerful and moving human interest story about terror victim Lior Anidzar.  CAMERA criticized the New York Times on May 2nd for its disproportionate emphasis on human interest stories depicting Palestinian suffering with little focus on the human dimension of terrrorism's impact on Israeli lives. With this moving and evocative article, the newspaper has helped offset the imbalance.
May 11, 2006

Human Interest Stories in New York Times Skewed Toward Palestinians

On May 2nd, 2006, the New York Times published a detailed, emotive human interest story on a Palestinian family whose northern Gaza house was hit by an Israeli artillery shell fired in response to Kassam rockets launched from the area. While Israelis have been terrorized by daily Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks, Israeli suffering is generally presented only by dry facts and figures.The Times puts a human face primarily on Palestinian suffering. The result? Skewed emphasis on the Palestinian toll in the conflict.
May 4, 2006

WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Editorial Hits Target

The Washington Post s May 2 editorial about Sami al-Arian deserves not only praise but wider notice. In five paragraphs it accurately and informatively comments on an important terrorism case, one that lasted for years.
April 19, 2006

Tony Judt, the New York Times, and the anti-Israel bandwagon

Whom did the New York Times choose to write an op-ed about the controversy over claims by two academics that the "Israel Lobby" distorts U.S. foreign policy to the detriment of U.S. interests? None other than Tony Judt, who has called Israel an "anachronism" which should be done away with.

April 7, 2006

AP Rewrites History of Moroccan Jews

When AP covers Palestinian refugees, the stories often uncritically present Palestinian grievances about purported Israeli "crimes." So why is it that when the wire service discusses Jewish refugees from Morocco, only glowing accounts of the Arab-Jewish relationship are cited, while the discrimination and pogroms faced by the community are overlooked completely?
April 7, 2006

Washington Times Publishes CAMERA Letters

Washington Times recently published two CAMERA letters, one correcting two factual errors in a Times news story, and another addressing an inaccurate description of Hamas in a Times Op-Ed.
April 6, 2006

BBC’s Hardtalk Host Harangues Halevy with Hostile Questions

An April 3rd interview with former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy by BBC's "Hardtalk" host David Jessel is emblematic of the BBC's infamous anti-Israel bent. The host's questions are breathtaking in their hostility toward Israel and their one-sided, prejudicial nature.
April 4, 2006

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Publishes CAMERA Op-Ed

After two opinion pieces in the Post-Intelligencer celebrated Seattle's hosting of a play about International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Rachel Corrie, a CAMERA guest column pointed out that the ISM's extremist ideology distorts understanding of the Middle East. The newspaper's summary of CAMERA's column reads: "Her death was tragic, but the group mentoring Corrie was geared toward more toward building hatred against Israel than toward forwarding peace."
March 31, 2006

USA Today Publishes CAMERA Letter

A CAMERA letter in USA Today points out flawed logic in an earlier editorial that suggesting that "fresh violence" by Hamas would be the result of Israeli actions. The letter also asks why that newpaper cautions Israel not to target terrorists, but instead improve their cash flow.