The May issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine features an article, "Jerusalem by the Book," in which the author returns to Jerusalem with a guidebook written by his parents in 1951. Unfortunately, when he ventures into territory liberated by Israel in 1967, the author steps into politics and outside the confines of journalistic accuracy.
While a page-one headline refers to "Nakba Day marked with clashes," the page two jump headline states: "NAKBA: Quiet day." Also, a photo caption wrongly places the rock-throwing Palestinians in Palestinian-controlled Ramallah.
CAMERA's Israel office prompted a correction in Ha'aretz on a photo caption which had wrongly placed a "Nakba Day" clash in Ramallah, when it actually took place at the Ofer military prison outside of Ramallah.
C-SPANs chronic Israel/Jewish problem continues as host Steve Scully once more indulges the disinformation and conspiracy-mongering of former CIA bin Laden unit head Michael Scheuer. His latest C-SPAN appearance is on May 6, 2012.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren writes, "Having failed to destroy Israel by conventional arms and terrorism, Israel's enemies alit on a subtler and more sinister tactic that hampers Israel's ability to defend itself, even to justify its existence." And he's right.
BBC's shoddy, prejudicial treatment of Israel and Jewish issues continued in a May 8 Hardtalk segment with Sarah Montague that featured anti-Jewish, Israel-basher Norman Finkelstein as commentator on American Jewish attitudes towards Israel.
CAMERA's Israeli staff prompted a timely correction of the latest case of "Lost in Translation." The original Hebrew edition correctly reported on the "Nakba Law," while English translators recreated it as something much more sweeping than it actually is.
A Baltimore Sun commentary properly criticized support among some in the Presbyterian Church USA for divestment from companies doing business in Israel. But a CAMERA letter spotlighted the writer's mistaken equivalence of Palestinian and Israeli grievances.
Aside from a photograph contradicting Amira Hass' claim that the Samouni family could not remove casualties for two weeks, there's another problem with her story: a key passage is plagiarized from B'Tselem. And, in yet another egregious ethical breach, Ha'aretz quietly scrubs its online article.
A Washington Times columnist, Arnaud de Borchgrave, tied a possible Israeli attack on Iran's presumed nuclear weapons program to the U.S. presidential election, and cited an Israeli source as downplaying the Iranian threat. CAMERA's letter to the editor supplied the missing, and contradictory, context.
PM says he wants peace, but Palestinians are not reciprocating; Iranian uranium enrichment must stop completely, Netanyahu declares; former IDF intelligence chief encourages 'third option' on Iran.