When it comes to encouraging terrorists and terrorism by disguising murder by other names, no one can beat USA Today. In a February 10 report headlined “Palestinian militants are undeterred: Israel`s crackdown feeds anger, ranks of militias,” I counted 16 different ways to distort language by calling terrorism against Israelis by any other name. A […]

As the world’s most important daily newspaper, the New York Times is disproportionately influential in framing the public and diplomatic discourse on many issues, both in the U.S. and beyond. This is particularly true with regard to the Middle East, given how much space it allocates to the subject. One of the great myths of […]

The international organization “Journalists Without Borders” (RSF) is taking Israel’s side. The group says that Kuwait is making it difficult for Israeli journalists who have come to cover the war preparations. RSF has sent a letter to the Kuwaiti Minister of Information saying that Kuwait “would do honor to itself if it were to stop […]

If you’ve ever thought you detected a certain anti-Israel bias in the reportage of NBC’s longtime Israel bureau chief Martin Fletcher, there’s good reason: Despite being Jewish, married to an Israeli and the father of three Israeli sons, Fletcher considers Israel worse than South Africa in the days of apartheid and won’t even say whether […]

HonestReporting.com, a watchdog organization that reports incidents of anti-Israel bias in the world media, noted a particularly glaring example in The New York Times yesterday. Six Hamas terrorists were killed on Sunday while packing a drone with explosives and preparing to detonate it in an Israeli town or city. The Times’ article on the item, […]

CNN’s Web site carries a “Special Report” box on the Mideast (appearing with articles about the Middle East) consisting of an “Interactive Timeline” and “> Special Report: Mideast.” (To access the timeline without an article, go to the “>Special Report,” scroll down to “Timeline” in the left column.) CAMERA has been in contact with CNN […]

Sharon’s caption reads: A lifelong hawk who has fought for Israel since 1948, Sharon has reinvented himself as a centrist, at least by his Likud Party’s standard. But he hasn’t forgotten how to fight. As over 400 Israelis died in terrorist attacks in 2002, Sharon’s soldiers killed more than 1,000 Palestinians — some combatants but […]

In Jenin, too, the army has withdrawn its forces from the terrorist stronghold neighborhood in which the fierce battles of the previous two weeks took place. The soldiers continue to surround the area. After almost two weeks of “Jenin Massacre!” headlines, the world press has been forced to face the truth: There was none. Journalist […]

Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993, and most especially since the outbreak of violence in September 2000, Palestinian spokespersons and the Palestinian media have launched a barrage of lies against Israel and the Israeli Army. Here is the story of one that did not fly… On March 31, 2002, I was […]

Below are copies of articles about inadvertent deaths caused by unexploded bombs in Afghanistan and Gaza from two newspapers. Miami Herald 11-23-01, pages 1A and 3A “5 Palestinian Boys Killed by Shell Explosion in Gaza” New York Times 11-23-01, pages 1A and 3A “5 Palestinian Boys Die in Blast in Gaza” Miami Herald 11-23-01, page […]