Media outlets such as The Guardian and BBC have been misrepresenting Palestinian prisoners who are to be released as part of the peace negotiations. There are several problems with their articles, particularly the fact that they minimized the criminal activity of the prisoners, exaggerated their sentences, and failed to state...
The Tripod: CAMERA Links in Three Languages
The Guardian Asks if 4.9 Million Palestinian “Refugees” Will “Return” to Cities…Where They Never Lived Those who get their news from the Guardian could be forgiven for falsely believing that there are nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees from the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War. The truth is that there are closer to...
From the Campus Director’s Desk: CAMERA’s Amazing Student Trip to Israel
CAMERA just completed its 7th Annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Mission in Israel. Our CAMERA Fellows, who were chosen to represent CAMERA on campus for the 2012-2013 academic year, participated in the all-expense-paid trip, along with student activists who are members of our CCAP-supported pro-Israel organizations. Twenty-three Jewish and non-Jewish...
The Tripod: CAMERA Links in Three Languages—July 29
Pre-Oslo Prisoners and Their Crimes To understand the sensitivity of the debate over Israel’s decision to release convicted Palestinian terrorists, one must know who these prisoners are and what crimes they committed. CAMERA provides a list. (CAMERA) Another Perspective on Middle East Peace Emanuele Ottolenghi describes the “six mistaken assumptions...
Glorifying Hate
Does a true partner for peace honor those who committed acts of terror? In history, there have been only a few Jewish terrorists who murdered Palestinians. Israel has given all of these people lengthy prison sentences, and has refused to release them early. On the other hand, the ruling Palestinian...
The Importance of CAMERA to the Sustainability of Israel
I am grateful that CAMERA provided me the opportunity to see Israel in an entirely different way than ever before. It was incredible to listen to so many well-informed speakers and visit various important historic sights ranging from the Western Wall to north in the Golan. After the trip, I...
800,000 missing Jews: Guardian ‘refugee’ history includes glaring omission.
It’s one thing to re-write history, but quite another to pretend as if a major historical event – involving a well-documented case of ethnic cleansing – never occurred. A July 25th edition of the Guardian’s Data Blog, edited by Mona Chalabi, was titled ‘What happened to history’s refugees?‘. Here’s the...
An Unlikely Friendship
Every country has at least one ally, if not more, and while at times it seems as though Israel’s only ally is the United States, there is another western country that has held out its hand to Israel. It may seem, to the untrained eye, that Panama has no stake...
