BY SIMON PLOSKER While its neighbors such as Syria demonstrate a particular malevolent disregard for human life, why is it that Israel continues to be singled out with uniquely evil attributes? Take The Independent, which has published a series of front page articles exposing how some banks have invested in companies that produce cluster bombs. [...]

Leo Rennert In its Aug. 16 edition, the Washington Post features a dispatch by Jerusalem correspondent Joel Greenberg about Israel’s decision to proceed with construction of 277 homes in the West Bank town of Ariel (“Israel announces new construction in West Bank” page A7). Here’s how Greenberg begins his article: “Israel on Monday announced approval [...]

by Steven Stotsky A review of 22 New York Times news and opinion articles on the abortive second Gaza flotilla between June 2 and July 8, 2011 reveals a pattern of whitewashing the extremist agendas and backgrounds of the participants. Statements and charges made by the flotilla participants were usually reported without editorial comment, while [...]

Bronner’s Flotilla Bias The New York Times seems less and less concerned about factual coverage of Israel, as Ethan Bronner’s July 2, 2011 column titled “Setting Sail on Gaza’s Sea of Spin” underscores. Bronner begins his “news analysis” piece by comparing the latest Gaza flotilla, led by radical anti-Israel extremists and terrorist groups, with the [...]

June 28, 2011 by Tamar Sternthal The Los Angeles Times, which recently gave a platform (yet again) to a Hamas leader, now gives space to an Israeli-American participant of the Gaza flotilla in support of Hamas. The Hebrew word “borer,” refers to the act of selection, and that is exactly what USC linguistics professor Hagit [...]

Extended to June 20, 2011 Earn $1000 and Travel to Israel with Fellow Activists CAMERA seeks committed undergraduate students with excellent communication skills who can organize pro-Israel events on campus. Students earn $1000 and travel to Israel when they become CAMERA Fellows Representatives. CAMERA Fellows Reps will: • Organize 3-4 programs during the school year [...]

by Yishai Goldflam, Tamar Sternthal May 19 Update: Following Ynet’s failure to correct, CAMERA’s Israel office filed a complaint with the Israel Press Council, which has agreed to rule on the matter in its Ethics Court next month. Stay tuned. March 2 Update: Translation of Arabic Proves the Scene is Staged March 1 — Once [...]

May 20, 2011 by CAMERA staff In a May 19 policy speech, President Barack Obama, referring to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, said the “1967 lines” should be the basis of a future border between Israel and Palestine. Major media organizations subsequently announced, wrongly, that Obama referenced “1967 borders.” Diplomatic implications aside, President Obama correctly used [...]

by Alex Safian, PhD Glenn Beck of FoxNews presented, in his programs on March 14 and 15, a moving and obviously heartfelt analysis of the murders of Udi and Ruth Fogel, and their children Yoav (11), Elad (4), and Hadas (3 months old), residents of the Israeli community of Itamar. On the first segment Beck [...]

by Alex Safian, PhD Vittorio Arrigoni was, in plain terms, a terror tourist. He wandered the world looking for radical causes that would give his life meaning, eventually hooked up with the like-minded and pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, and found his calling in supporting not just Palestinians, but specifically the extremist terrorists of Hamas. Inevitability [...]