Remember the recent controversy involving the hateful tweets of potential UIUC Professor Steven Salaita? We do, too. Salaita is a former Virginia Tech professor who was offered a tenure-track position at UICU. The appointment was withdrawn after Salaita’s tweets blaming Israel for anti-semitism and conflating Israel with Nazism came to...
CAMERA Wins Hasby Award
The following post has been reposted from CAMERA’s blog, Snapshots: CAMERA is delighted that popular blogger Elder of Ziyon has selected CAMERA as the 2014 winner of the Hasby Award in the category of Best Mainstream Media Watchdog. Elder writes: Besides having a stellar year with dozens of articles showing bias in the...
CAMERA Partners with Drexel Hillel on Birthright Trip
CAMERA’s Gilad Skolnick just returned from a wonderful Birthright Reunion at Drexel University. This is our second year in a row of working with Drexel’s Hillel in sending students on Birthright. Unique aspects of this partnership include having Israeli soldiers stay for the full 10 days of the Birthright trip...
The Tripod: CAMERA Links in Three Languages—August 8
More BBC whitewashing of ‘Al Quds Day’ A BBC guide to Iran’s Al Quds day presents it as an eccentric local custom. (BBC Watch ) Manipulating BBC audience opinions with pictures The caption to a photograph showcased by the BBC omits vital context and includes a politically loaded adjective. (BBC...
The Tripod: CAMERA Links in Three Languages—August 7
BBC Weather doesn’t know in which country Jerusalem is located On the BBC Weather website, Jerusalem is presented as not being in any country. (BBC Watch) BBC’s Knell misleads on entry of construction materials to Gaza Once again, the BBC fails to inform audiences why restricting the entry of dual-purpose...
The Tripod: CAMERA Links in Three Languages
BBC Persian Service promotes anti-Semitic Holocaust denier Atzmon The BBC’s promotion of Gilad Atzmon is not novel, but translation into Farsi for broadcast in Iran is a new low. (BBC Watch) BBC resurrects Knell’s ‘one-state’ campaigning article An old article promoting the ‘one-state solution’ as a panacea to the troubles...
The Tripod: CAMERA Links in Three Languages—July 31
What are BBC audiences being told about ME talks? Taking a look at what the BBC is telling its audiences about the Middle East peace talks. (BBC Watch) Can’t Find A Referendum? You Must Be Gidon Levy Gidon Levy claims democracies don’t use referendums. (Presspectiva) Guardian falsely claims that most...
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...