11/27 Update: Prompted by CAMERA's critique, PolitiFact and Poynter reviewed, archived and replaced a story that had misled readers on several counts and suggested there was no merit to the charge that Hamas decapitated Israeli babies.
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
Further sanitizing Hamas’s actions: This is the second of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
Creating a narrative, absolving Hamas: This is the first of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
UPDATE: After communication from CAMERA staff and members of the public, The Los Angeles Times finally corrects the demonstrably false claim that most of the remaining hostages are soldiers. In fact, the overwhelming majority of those then remaining -- 60 out of 73 -- are civilians.
In falsely labelling Kfar Aza a "settlement," CBS' Errol Barnett adopts anti-Israel jargon signaling that the supposedly illegitimate community should be obliterated.
Engaging in vile Oct. 7 denial, France24 "World of the Week" presenter Gavin Lee said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is the person who triggered the conflict in the first place," as if Hamas' orgy of murder, kinocide, rape, kidnapping, torture and maiming never happened.
For the BBC to regain public trust, an independent inquiry into its adherence to editorial standards of accuracy and impartiality in its coverage of Israel and Jewish affairs is crucial.
CAMERA UK and CAMERA Arabic are delighted to have contributed to The Asserson Report, a seminal study exposing BBC's deeply biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
