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Updated: CAMERA Prompts <i>New York Times</i> Corrections on Effect of E1 Corridor
In response to discussion with CAMERA staff, the New York Times corrected inaccurate claims about the E1 corridor cutting off Palestinian cities from Jerusalem and bisecting the West Bank. For a more analysis on the subject, read CAMERA's "Media Embrace E1 Falsehoods."
  
Facts About Hamas
 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) is considered a terrorist organization by much of the non-Arab international community including Israel, the U.S., Canada, Japan, the U.K., Australia and the European Union. Its declared goal is to destroy the Jewish state and replace it with an Islamic one. Indeed, its enmity is directed not only toward Israel but toward Jews, in general.
Another Front-Page Gaffe at Ha'aretz
December 18, 2012
Weeks after Ha'aretz published, and then corrected, the wildly inaccurate front-page apartheid poll article, the English edition runs an egregiously mislabeled map and a tendentious headline. Where are the editors?
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The Threatened Use of Poison Gas in the Middle East
December 14, 2012
Alarm over reports that the Syrian regime is preparing to use chemical weapons offers an opportunity to provide some clarity about what lies at the core of the Middle East's instability.
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CAMERA's Letter to the Editor in USA TODAY
December 11, 2012
USA TODAY ("Netanyahu's arrogance threatens peace prospects," December 6) blamed Israel and its prime minister, instead of repeated Palestinian rejections, for the absence of peace. CAMERA's December 11 letter to the editor spotlights the editorial's pretzel logic.
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Media Embrace E1 Falsehoods
December 10, 2012
Instead of investigating activist claims that the building in E1 bisects the West Bank and cuts off access to Jerusalem, much of the media has simply echoed the false accusations.
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CAMERA Letter in Baltimore Sun Responds to Unfair Criticism of Israel
December 7, 2012
A Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, using Israel's "Pillar of Defense" operation against Hamas as news peg, blamed Israel for a host of Middle East ills. CAMERA's letter to the editor "Criticism of Israel ignores the facts" set the record straight.
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CAMERA Prompts CNN Correction on Soccer Petition
December 7, 2012
Following communication from CAMERA staff, CNN has corrected and clarified inaccurate claims that a soccer star signed on to an inaccurate anti-Israel petition.
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New CAMERA Monograph: Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
December 5, 2012
A new monograph about CAMERA's six-month study of The New York Times details how the newspaper treats Israel with a harsher standard, omits context, and shows a clear preference for the Palestinian narrative.
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Sun Sentinel Columnist Gets Facts Wrong
December 5, 2012
Pierre Tristam gets a number of facts wrong in an op-ed published in Florida's Sun Sentinel. He falsely claims Gazans can't fish in the Mediterranean (they can) and that they cannot trade with the outside world. They do.
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UPDATED: CNN Duped by Anti-Israel Soccer Petition
December 5, 2012
Everything about CNN's claim that soccer star Didier Drogba joined 61 other players to protest the killing of Gaza teens playing soccer is false. Drogba signed nothing, there were fewer than 62 signatories to the petition, and Israel didn't kill 4 people playing soccer. UPDATE: CNN has corrected.
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PBS Corrects Erez Crossing Error
December 1, 2012
In response to CAMERA and public complaint, PBS Newshour corrected its inaccurate reference to Erez as the only crossing point between Israel and Gaza.
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Updated: PBS Gaza Coverage Partisan, Shoddy, Unbalanced
December 1, 2012
PBS’ "Newshour" aired back-to-back stories about Gaza and Israel resuming normal life. The Gaza segment is filled with civilians and devastation. In contrast, viewers do not see a single Israeli victim of Hamas rockets, nor is there one shot of destruction in southern Israel.
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Memo to the Media: Check Those Civilian Casualty Claims
November 30, 2012
In Operation Pillar of Defense, some media, relying on Palestinian sources, exaggerate the proportion of civilian casualties in Gaza. They give less weight to Israeli figures and ignore the fact that 2 out of 3 fatalities are men between ages 18-40.
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Ha'aretz Corrects Article Wrongly Blaming Israel for Boy's Death
November 29, 2012
Following communication from Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew branch, Ha'aretz has corrected a column by Anshel Pfeffer which had wrongly blamed Israel for the death of four-year-old Gazan Mahmoud Sadallah.
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Michael Oren: Media Perpetuate Hamas Strategy
November 29, 2012
In a Washington Post op-ed, Israel's ambassador to the United States writes, “Hamas knows that it cannot destroy us militarily but believes that it might do so through the media."
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Ha'aretz Lost in Translation: Whitewashing a Stabbing
November 28, 2012
Ha'aretz's translators again downplay Palestinian violence, this time transforming the stabbing of Yael Shalom into an "assault," her 20-something-year-old Palestinian assailant into an "Arab teen," and one of his weapons, a crowbar, into a "stick."
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Hamas' Smuggling Tunnels and What National Geographic Does Not Want You to Know
November 28, 2012
Following Hamas' use of long-range missiles to target Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, National Geographic editors chose to run a partisan article glorifying Palestinian smugglers while ignoring their malignant role in Iran/Hamas' war against Israel.
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Salama, Shalamah, Shamalah, Shamallakh... and Why David Carr is Wrong Regardless
November 27, 2012
The many criticisms of a recent New York Times article by David Carr might feel like a confusing blur of names. But regardless of whose name is spelled how, the reporter did a dramatic disservice to readers by ignoring facts and context in his indictment of Israel.
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Backgrounder: The Palestinian "Non-Member State" Drive at the UN
November 26, 2012
Mahmoud AbbasPalestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas plans to gravely violate the Oslo Accords and move towards statehood by getting the United Nations to upgrade the PA's status to "non-member state."
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Jon Lovitz Understands What Some Christian Peacemakers Do Not
November 26, 2012
Comedian Jon Lovitz demonstrated a greater capacity for moral discernment and reasoning than some Christian peacemakers during the Pillar of Defense Operation.
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CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction: 'Palestinian Journalist' Was Islamic Jihad
November 25, 2012
Following communication from CAMERA staff, the Los Angeles Times has clarified an article which wrongly identified Ramez Harb, an Islamic Jihad leader killed last week in an Israeli air strike, as a "Palestinian journalist."
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Ten Things The Huffington Post Got Wrong About Gaza (Actually Thirteen, but Who’s Counting?)
November 21, 2012
On a regular basis, The Huffington Post is a wasteland of biased and context-free reporting about Israel. During the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, The Huffington Post has hit a new low.

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Yahoo! Corrects: Israelis Taking Cover are Not 'Gaza's Children'
November 21, 2012
Following communication from CAMERA staff and readers, Yahoo! News editors have changed a photo montage headline which falsely identified Israeli children fleeing rocket attacks as "Gaza's children caught in crossfire."
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Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome in the Media
November 20, 2012
Some in the media are fixated on blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for whatever goes wrong in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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NPR's Leila Fadel: Israel Targeting Journalists
November 20, 2012
NPR's Leila Fadel, a victim of harassment by Egyptian authorities, raises the false charge of Israel targeting journalists. She states Israel "struck a media building," without noting that Israel hit equipment belonging to Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV and Al-Quds TV.
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The Facts About Gaza Rocket Fire
November 20, 2012
Hamas Rocket FireThe media often present a narrative biased against Israel, counterfactual and lacking in context. This is especially true now, as the world focuses its attention on Israel and Gaza. These are the facts.

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CNN's Jim Clancy: Maligning Israel at Every Opportunity
November 19, 2012
Jim ClancyWhile CNN's Jim Clancy is clearly immersed in Middle East issues, the unfortunate reality is that in his error-filled commentary Israel can usually do no right and the Palestinians no wrong.
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CBS Contradiction on Gaza's Civilian Casualties
November 18, 2012
Besides contradicting itself about Gaza's civilian casualties, CBS also covers up Hamas' use of human shields, downplays the sophistication of Hamas' weaponry smuggled from Iran and Russia, and gives no indication that Hamas is a terror organization. 

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Updated: In Gaza, Macabre Manipulations of a Child Victim
November 18, 2012
Once again, media outlets categorically blame Israel for the death of a Palestinian child killed in "hotly disputed" circumstances. AFP and AP captions ignore information pointing to an errant Palestinian rocket as the culprit, and Reuters issues a commendable clarification.
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The New York Times Still Spinning the News
November 17, 2012
The New York Times continues to spin the news about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through its framing and placement of stories. Take, for example, the Saturday, Nov. 17 edition.
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On U.S. Radio, BBC Reporter Misinforms to Defend Hamas Use of Human Shields
November 16, 2012
One day after a BBC reporter grossly exaggerated the proportion of Palestinian civilians killed, another provides false information defend war crimes by terrorists.
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The New York Times Evades the Facts to Blame Israel
November 15, 2012
The mindset at The New York Times is to indict Israel and let no facts stand in the way. This is made clear—yet again— in the newspaper's editorial about Israel's latest military operation to stop rocket fire. The column uses any kind of evasion to arrive at its desired message:  "Blame Israel."
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"Assassination" or "Killing"? AP's Double Standard on Counter-Terror
November 14, 2012
When describing the CIA's program of anti-terrorist drone strikes, the Associated Press acknowledges that critics call them assassinations, officials disagree, and avoids weighing in. But when Israel strikes, such nuance disappears.
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Timeline of Gaza-Israel Cross-Border Violence
November 14, 2012
The Israeli Defense Forces "Pillar of Defense" Operation., was launched with the targeting of Ahmed Jabari, the leader of Hamas' terrorist wing. Many media outlets, however, forget the sequence of events that led to this operation.  CAMERA provides a timeline of events. We will continue to update this timeline.
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Bennis and Smiley Bashed Israel With Distortions and Anti-Jewish Canard
November 12, 2012
Phyllis Bennis, again working at bashing Israel, teamed up with PBS’ Tavis Smiley on Oct. 11, 2012 to misinform viewers about the Jewish nation. Smiley’s show is aired daily (generally at midnight) in major cities.
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CAMERA Prompts CNN.com Correction on Jerusalem
November 11, 2012
Following communication from CAMERA staff, CNN editors corrected an online article which had wrongly stated that Israel captured Jerusalem in 1967. The error and correction follow:
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UPDATED: CNN Ignores Hit Jeep, Injured Israelis
November 11, 2012
In response to communication from CAMERA, CNN editors vastly improve yesterday's egregious coverage of Gaza violence which had omitted mention of Israeli injured, had stated that an Israeli army jeep was "target[ed]" whereas it was actually hit, and had reversed cause and effect.
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Cheap Shots: Tamimi Girl Ups the Ante
November 6, 2012
Two months ago, a CAMERA  Op-Ed described  the lead role two young girls took in  the violent Nabi Saleh demonstrations against the Israeli army. It turns out that pro-Palestinian activists pay children from Nabi Salih and tnearby villages to confront the soldiers.
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CAMERA Prompts ABC Correction on Gaza Settlements
November 4, 2012
Following communication from CAMERA, ABC News corrected an online column which had wrongly stated Gaza settlements were causing friction between Obama and Netanyahu. Israel completely dismantled Gaza settlements years before Obama took office.
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Former Ha'aretz Editor Marmari Speaks Out on 'Apartheid' Poll Scandal
November 4, 2012
Hanoch Marmari, a former editor-in-chief of Ha'aretz, details the multiple failures of Gideon Levy and his editors with respect to the publication of the "apartheid" poll article and its paltry clarification. If only the current editor would speak out.
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Christian Leaders Seek to Blacken Israel’s Name
November 2, 2012
In a letter sent to Congress early last month, Christian leaders engaged in an obvious attempt to blacken Israel's name.
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Diana Buttu is at it Again, Harvard Edition
November 1, 2012
The Harvard Kennedy School provided a platform for notorious anti-Israel detractor Diana Buttu. The results — including a string of demonstrable falsehoods — were predictable.
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In Today's 'Apology,' Gideon Levy Just Doesn't Get It
October 29, 2012
One day after the Ha'aretz clarification, Gideon Levy himself also published an apology for his column claiming that most Israelis support an apartheid regime. The partial apology indicates that Levy has no understanding of what he did wrong to elicit such a forceful backlash.
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The Los Angeles Times and Temple Mount Provocations
October 28, 2012
Edmund Sanders article today in the Los Angeles Times about a purported increase in attempts by Jewish worshipers to pray on the Temple Mount unnecessarily exacerbates tensions by publishing false Palestinian accusations as fact.
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Will Inquiry Follow Ha'aretz 'Apartheid' Clarification?
October 28, 2012
Days after a false headline alleging that the majority of Jews support apartheid in Israel, Ha'aretz buries a clarification on page 5. This is the second time within two months that Ha'aretz corrected an erroneous page-one headline. Will editors conduct an internal inquiry?
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ReVista de Medio Oriente, CAMERA's Spanish site, Prompts El País Correction
October 26, 2012

ReVista de Medio Oriente staff have elicited a correction from El País on an article published in the Spanish daily describing Gilad Shalit as an “Israeli soldier involved in the Gaza Massacre.”

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Ha'aretz's Apartheid Campaign Against Israel
October 25, 2012
Do most Israelis support an apartheid regime in the country and do they advocate discrimination against Arabs? An article by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz highlighted with sensational but distorted headlines twists facts to promote the apartheid canard against Israel.
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The Straight Facts About the Palestinian Authority and Fighting Terrorism
October 25, 2012
A popular narrative in the media contends that the Palestinian Authority has been exemplary in its cooperation with Israel, while Israel and Jewish settlers are responsible for the stalled peace process.
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Minority Report: Akiva Eldar Responds
October 23, 2012

Akiva Eldar responds to the Presspectiva/CAMERA exposé concerning his false report that the Israeli government has acknowledged that Jews are the minority between the river and the sea. He partially acknowledges the falsehood, and also introduces a new distorted figure.

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Karl Vick Conceals Abbas's Rejection of Negotiations
October 22, 2012
Time Magazine's Karl Vick doesn't bother to tell readers that Abbas chose not to negotiate with Israel, and describes 800 rockets targeting Israel in 10 months as attacks that happen "from time to time."
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Claims in Doubt: The Islamic Society of North America
October 19, 2012
CAMERA's Special Report about the Islamic Society of North America suggests news outlets should look behind the society's self-portrait as the “largest mainstream Muslim community-based organization” in the United States.
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Wall Street Journal Corrects Map Calling West Bank 'Palestine'
October 17, 2012
In response to communication from CAMERA staff, Wall Street Journal editors promptly correct a map which referred to the West Bank as "Palestine." They also correct a caption which likewise identified the Gaza Strip as "Palestine."
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Other Features 



C-SPAN Watch

Susan SwainWashington Journal, a daily phone-in program, is a platform for the defamation of Israel and Jews. C-SPAN executives Susan Swain and Rob Kennedy, like network founder Brian Lamb before them, stonewall public complaint. …More

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REVISTA: Spanish-Language Media Analysis




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PRESS-Pectiva: Hebrew-Language Media Analysis




Luntz/CAMERA Poll Affirms Strong American Jewish Support for Israel
Some news media accounts have tended to amplify a vocal fringe in the American Jewish community that espouses extreme views and policies far out of the mainstream. This poll clarifies what American Jews actually feel and believe.


CAMERA Campus Activist Project






Eyes On Israel:
CAMERA's Free Media Curriculum
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CAMERA Monographs

Dershowitz The Case for Moral Clarity





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Hamas Charter

(Click for a translation of the Charter.)
 
Why has Hamas never ceased to target Jewish civilians within Israel even after Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip more than three years ago? The answer lies in its governing charter.

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