November 11, 2005

Michigan Muslim Leader Defends Iranian President’s Call to Wipe Out Israel

The Detroit News carried an op-ed by Mohammad Elahi, Imam of a large mosque in Dearborn Heights, that defends and attempts to justify Iranian President Ahmedinejad's call to wipe out Israel. Imam Elahi's column is laced with outright falsehoods and unsubstantiated accusations against Israel and compares the Iranian President's words to the American Declaration of Independence.
November 10, 2005

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.

November 8, 2005

WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: From “Militant” to “Military”

In recent months the Washington Post has moved from typically referring to Palestinian terrorist groups as "militants," Unfortunately, the Post now typically refers to the "military leaders," "military wings," and "military" or "offensive operations" of these "armed groups" – Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah.
November 4, 2005

On BBC Website, Israeli Noise More Serious than Palestinian Terrorism

Following a long pattern of presenting stories which cast Israelis as aggressors responsible for Palestinian suffering rather than as victims of Palestinian violence, a November 3 BBC Web site article discussed the alleged threat to Palestinian women and children in Gaza by Israeli noise, never once mentioning the Israeli women and children who are daily threatened with death by Palestinian mortar and rocket attacks.
November 1, 2005

UPDATED: Washington Post: Hadera Terrorist Attack Report Accompanied by Photo of Terrorist’s Grieving Family

In an article about a terrorist bombing targeting Israeli civilians in Hadera, the Washington Post chose to illustrate the murders with a photo sympathetic to the terrorist (bomber's mother holding his photo) instead of photographs of the bomb scene and Israeli victims. Three days after CAMERA's Oct. 27 alert, the paper's ombudsman wrote a column stating that running that photo was a bad choice.
October 30, 2005

UPDATED: Student Editors Apologize for Anti-Semitic Column

Editors at Portland State University's campus paper have apologized for an Oct. 18 column by staff member Caelan MacTavish which blamed the Jews themselves for anti-Semitism, disparaged the Jewish people, and included a number of absurd factual errors about Judaism and Israel.

October 28, 2005

LA Times’ Uncritical ‘Review’ of Corrie Play

In his Los Angeles Times review of the British play "My Name is Rachel Corrie," David Gritten describes Rachel Corrie as "a relatively obscure name in her native U.S," one of several distortions about the American who interfered in a closed military area in the Gaza Strip and was killed accidentally.