Former Russia Today anchor Liz Wahl, who was last seen on air delivering an unexpected resignation in 2014, spoke to UCF students about her reasons for quitting on March 28. She discussed the importance of media literacy, particularly in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While Wahl said Israel is not blameless in the conflict, she...
Letter: Israel Reporting Biased
“Hurt me with the truth, but never confront me with a lie,” read a poster held by a 20-something-year-old college student. The March for Truth began at Harvard Science Commons and dropped a mass of passionate ralliers at the British Consulate in Cambridge. Students from Brandeis University, Clark University, Boston University,...
Media Inaccuracies and their Influence
Recently, Israel has undergone a slew of terrorist attacks that have affected hundreds of people. These attacks have mostly been lone-wolf stabbings carried out by young Palestinian teenagers and have been almost daily occurrences on Israeli streets and at Israeli holy sites. There have been dozens of attacks that have...
The Greatest Threat to Israel
One of the greatest threats to Israel today doesn’t come in the form of rockets, bombs, or bullets. Though Israel is attacked frequently in horrific terror attacks, so too she is attacked in the worldwide media. In the modern age of easily disseminated news, Israel is vilified in all different...
Binghamton University Zionist Organization (BUZO) Hosts Gil Cohen-Magen
Binghamton University Zionist Organization (BUZO), the pro-Israel student group at Binghamton University, united with multiple student groups– including the Arts Club– to host Gil Cohen-Magen, an Israeli photojournalist who has documented key occurrences in Israel. Cohen-Magen discussed the difficulties of living in Israel during a war. Since the event was co-sponsored...
Pro-Israel Students (Including our CAMERA Fellow!) at SUNY Buffalo Monitor Biased Coverage
Last month, CAMERA’s Fellow at SUNY Buffalo, Logan Woodard, worked with his board to craft a letter to The Spectrum, SUNY Buffalo’s student paper. The pro-Israel group at the university, Students for Israel, worked with StandWithUs to host an event on campus, which was to be covered by The Spectrum. The...
Presspectiva Analyst Speaks at Cornell
On September 30, CAMERA’s own Yishai Goldflam spoke about media bias against Israel at Cornell University! The content of this event included discussing specific instances of bias and inaccuracy in mainstream media that occurred over the course of this past summer, especially during Operation Protective Edge. According to our Cornell CAMERA Fellow, Reut Baer, feedback...
Illini CAMERA Fellow Demands Accuracy– And Gets It!
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...