HonestReporting challenges some of the misconceptions surrounding Israel’s Gaza operation. As Israeli operations in Gaza continue to occupy the international media, Palestinian PM and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, is somewhat surprisingly given op-ed space in the Washington Post to pin the blame for the current crisis solely on Israel. In a direct appeal to Americans, […]

The media refer to a plan in which Israel is recognized and violence eschewed. But does the plan really say that? Much of the Western media has been referring to a document signed by Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails as a breakthrough in the peace process. A New York Times headline “Palestinian Leader Plans a […]

On May 2nd, 2006, the New York Times published a detailed, emotive human interest story on a Palestinian family in Beit Hanoun whose northern Gaza house was hit and whose son was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli artillery shell fired in response to Kassam rockets launched from the area.(“Where Rockets Exit, Shells Enter and […]

American media outlets—including the influential Associated Press (AP) wire service—rarely discuss the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees who fled under duress from Arab and Muslim countries. By contrast, news reports certainly don’t shy away from discussing Palestinian refugees and relaying their narrative. Take, for instance, AP’s May 15, 2005 story, “Palestinians hold rallies to […]

The AP gives credibility to a mother who is proud of her terrorist sons The Associated Press describes Um Nidal, also known as Mariam Farahat, as the “mother of three Palestinian Martyrs” in the caption of a photograph about her candidacy. Um Nidal, mother of three Palestinian martyrs delivering a speech at a celebration at […]

A familiar quality of unreality pervades much of the news and commentary about the ascendance of Hamas in recent Palestinian elections. Note is endlessly made of the fact that Hamas, with its clinics and other welfare operations, is less “corrupt” than the old-guard Fatah chieftains, providing needed services the Palestinian Authority neglected. And many news […]

Despite its victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, Hamas remains the same old organization committed to Israel’s destruction. Hopes that an election campaign would force the terrorist group to moderate were repeatedly dashed by Hamas leaders, who made little attempt during the run-up to elections to hide the group’s ambition to destroy Israel. News consumers might […]

Our fifth annual Big media was clearly on the defensive in 2005. Dan Rather left the CBS News anchor desk under a heavy cloud while other executives were fired in the wake of Memogate. The use of anonymous sources put journalists like Judith Miller and the NY Times in an uncomfortable spotlight. Newsweek’s erroneous report […]

Dear HonestReporting Subscriber, As HonestReporting has repeatedly stated, pictures are central aspects of news stories. The decision of which photograph should accompany a report is an editorial matter of tremendous importance. It can completely change the way an textual story is understood by the reader. On Saturday (Nov. 5), a Palestinian child playing with a […]

For more than two decades, CAMERA has followed media coverage of Israel and the Middle East closely, contacting countless outlets with questions about factual accuracy and in many instances eliciting corrections. Virtually every major media outlet in America and some beyond U.S. shores have corrected errors in response to CAMERA, in accordance with professional journalistic […]