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Camera – Media Highlights

By Steve

Posted on October 28, 2016

Camera – Media Highlights

Media Minimizes Palestinian Terror Celebrations

When Palestinian society continually celebrates every terrorist who murders innocent Israelis, why do so many news outlets still refer to the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas’ party Fatah as “moderates”? Read more

British Labour Party’s Jewish Problem

WATCH: Dave Rich speaks on “Antisemitism and Labour: where has this crisis come from, how has it impacted the UK Jewish community, what must the party do now to put things right?” Read more

How BBC News Portrays Israelis And Palestinians

CAMERA’s BBC Watch reviews the BBC News website’s coverage of Israel and the Palestinians in the third quarter of 2016. Headlines and reports themselves continue to avoid the term “terror.” Read more

Washington Post Turns Anti-Terror Raid Into
Anti-Israel Article

“In a story about IDF attempts to curb violence, the Washington Post could have stuck to reporting the facts. Instead, it provided an example of how to twist a story and color it with anti-Israel bias.” The latest from CAMERA’s Sean Durns. Read more

Vox Docs Reinvent History And Legitimize Bigotry

Vox’s slick and attractive videos, purporting to explain Jewish presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, can’t hide the fact that the “documentaries” distort history, ignore facts, and legitimize bigotry. Read more

No Negotiating Partner For Middle East Peace

“If some Israelis are concerned about a lack of a ‘negotiating partner on the other side,’ one could hardly blame them,” writes CAMERA’s Sean Durns in the Washington Post. Read more

After CAMERA Outreach, Washington Post Corrects

An article in the Washington Post incorrectly claimed that the US government considers Israeli settlements “illegal.” After contact from CAMERA, editors have amended the online version of the article to say that the US considers the settlements “illegitimate,” an important distinction. Read more

Debunking A Dangerous UNESCO Myth

“It is crucial to understand the power that the Palestinian lie about Al-Aqsa being threatened by Israel has both in motivating violence and widening the conflict, which is crucial for the Palestinian cause.” Read more

CAMERA’s UK Media Watch Prompts Correction
from The Independent

CAMERA’s UK Media Watch prompted a correction to a misleading Independent story which falsely claimed that Facebook struck a deal with the Israeli government to ban Palestinian news outlets from the social media giant. Read more