As sure as the calendar moves toward spring, National Public Radio stations turn to a fresh season of fund-raising. For listeners wondering about the status of the network’s longstanding bias against Israel, a snapshot of coverage in early 2005 offers few signs of positive change. Instead, the tilt toward Arab positions continues. Network gestures of […]

Accountability is a foreign concept at Ha’aretz, Israel’s influential English-language daily. The Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics calls on journalists to ‘clarify and explain news coverage and invite dialogue with the public over journalistic conduct.’ But the Society is American, and ethics concerning accountability haven’t yet penetrated at Ha’aretz. In a Feb. 10 […]

Washington Post correspondent John Ward Anderson has teamed up with Israels critics in a Post investigation indicting the Israeli government and Jewish groups for consolidating their grip on strategic locations and deliberately scuttling peace efforts by having Jews move into Palestinian neighborhoods. The result, presented on February 7, 2005 in a Washington Post article entitled […]

Jewish officials are angered by the use of a Web site to create online hate communities, but they are taking different approaches on how to confront the issue. Orkut.com is one of several social-networking services available on the Internet. Created and run by Google, it offers users the opportunity to join communities where topics of […]

On November 9th, Wissam Tayam (sometimes spelled Tayem), a Palestinian seeking passage at an Israeli checkpoint near Nablus, was observed playing his violin. According to Horit Herman Peled, a member of Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch, a group that monitors Israeli soldiers’ behavior at checkpoints) who videotaped the incident, Tayam was forced to play the violin […]

An October 14th segment on NPR’s “All Things Considered” typifies NPR’s consistent pro-Palestinian news coverage. Part of a Pattern In 2000, a two-month CAMERA study of NPR noted that “entirely one-sided programs were commonplace;” that there was “a disproportionate reliance on Arab/Palestinian and pro-Arab speakers compared to Israeli and pro-Israeli speakers;” and a “chronic amplifying […]

CNN’s Newsnight on Oct. 20 aired a poignant segment on the rescue of elderly and destitute Iraqi Jews who had been largely forgotten by the outside world until they were visited and helped by Rachel Zelon, a senior official of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Traveling to Iraq, Zelon used hand drawn maps to find […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested a claim by the New York Times that there were six months of relative quiet prior to this weeks suicide bombing when in fact there were at least 420 terrorist attacks against Israel during those six months. The relative quiet claim was the opening […]

In covering the recent charges against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, several media outlets downplayed the relationship between Hamas and terrorism, saying only that it is blamed for or accused of attacks against Israel. This language is misleading in light of the fact that Hamas itself regularly takes credit for attacks. NPR: […]

Once again the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, well-known for its anti-Semitic foundation and its hostility to the Jewish State of Israel featured a story entitled: “Israeli Extremists Feared: Security Official Warns of Rising Settler Militancy” by who else?, a Jewish reporter named Josef Federman of the Associated Press. Let\u2019s examine the twisty spin of the story and […]