The
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
(CAMERA) is a Boston
-based, 501 nonprofit,
pro-Israel
- see, e.g., "Rally in Philadelphia will support America and
Israel. Press release. Committee for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America (Greater Philadelphia District). January 18,
1991.
A coalition of local groups will hold a rally at the
Liberty Bell on Sunday, Jan.
20, in support of American and Israeli military
policies in the Persian Gulf crisis.
"We'll be coming out on Sunday to say 'God bless
America and Israel," said Bertram Korn Jr., executive director of
the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, one
of the sponsors of the rally.
"The criminal Iraqi war machine must be permanently
disarmed," he added.
- Zara Myers. The Name of the Game? Advocacy for Israel.
Jewish Exponent. Philadelphia: Nov 25, 2004.
To encourage effective advocacy on behalf of Israel,
the Center for Israel and Overseas of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia will host a daylong program -- its inaugural
advocacy event -- on Sunday, Dec.
5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Hillel at the University
of Pennsylvania, Steinhardt Hall, 215 S.
39th St. in Philadelphia.
In the morning will be a panel featuring
representatives from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America and the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, all of which will discuss
"Methodologies on How to Advocate for Israel...Dr. John Cohn, a
local physician named Camera's "No.
1 Letter-Writer" in 2004, will serve as moderator of
the panel.
- CAMERA Articles For Students. Apply NOW to Be A CAMERA Student
Representative—EARN A FREE TRIP TO ISRAEL AND $1000!
Posted on CAMERA website, September 25, 2007.
CAMERA is looking for fifteen passionately committed
undergraduate students with excellent communication skills who can
organize pro-Israel events on campus.
Students earn $1000 and a free exclusive trip to Israel
in June by becoming a CAMERA Fellows Representative.
- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. CAMERA:
Fighting Distorted Media Coverage of Israel and the Middle East: An
Interview with Andrea Levin. Posted on JCPA website, June 1,
2005.
Their work undoubtedly has impact, but the
non-Israel-related groups do not have the same activist
focus.
They produce studies and polls.
It is for this reason that I think pro-Israeli media
watching has an importance beyond the cause of Israel.
Efforts that induce better adherence to ethical
journalism in one subject area are positive generally in helping to
strengthen American democracy, especially, again, as there are no
enforceable codes of professional conduct in the
media.
– CAMERA Executive Director Andrea Levin.
- The New York Times. MIDEAST TURMOIL: THE NEWS OUTLETS; Some U.S.
Backers of Israel Boycott Dailies Over Mideast
Coverage That They Deplore. Posted on NYTimes website, May 23,
2002.
While the the pro-Israeli Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America, or Camera, studies newspapers for
evidence of bias, Palestine Media Watch has been monitoring the
coverage of newspapers like The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York
Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
media watchdog group CAMERA: About CAMERA which was founded in 1982 "to
respond to the Washington Post's coverage of Israel’s Lebanon
incursion, and to the paper’s general anti-Israel bias".
CAMERA has been noted for its pro-Israel media monitoring and
advocacy. CAMERA releases reports to counter what it calls
"frequently inaccurate and skewed characterizations of Israel and
of events in the Middle East" that it believes may fuel
anti-Israel and
anti-Jewish prejudice. The group mobilizes
protests against what it describes as unfair media coverage by
issuing full-page ads in newspapers,
U.S. newspapers catching flak for Mideast war
coverage: Media caught in the cross fire as both sides complain of
bias
He said the network has been targeted by the Committee
for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, which ran a
full-page New York Times ad calling NPR's coverage "false" and
"skewed" against Israel. The advertisement also urged NPR's
financial backers to stop supporting the network.
organizing demonstrations,
Guardian Unlimited: The readers' editor on ... a
ruling in favour of freedom of expression
It has, for instance, been involved in a long-running
battle with NPR, National Public Radio, in Washington, over its
Middle East coverage, organising demonstrations outside NPR
stations across the US and seeking to persuade NPR's supporters to
withhold funds.
and encouraging sponsors to withhold funds.
Gershom Gorenberg says CAMERA is "
Orwellian-named" and that "like others engaged in
the narrative wars, it does not understand the difference between
advocacy and accuracy". Other critics have described CAMERA as a
special interest group fighting for a pro-Israeli bias.
In May 2008, five
Wikipedia editors
involved in a secret CAMERA campaign to edit Wikipedia were
sanctioned by Wikipedia administrators, who wrote that the
project's open nature "is fundamentally incompatible with the
creation of a private group to surreptitiously coordinate editing
by ideologically like-minded individuals".
History
CAMERA
created chapters in major US cities and Israel, including New York City
, Chicago
, Fort Lauderdale
, Los
Angeles
, Miami
, San Francisco
, Philadelphia
, and in 1988 a Boston
chapter and
headquarters, founded and led by Andrea
Levin; Charles
Jacobs became deputy director of the Boston
chapter.
In 1986,
Florida
International University
political science
professor Cheryl A.
Rubenberg noted CAMERA was
“Another pro-Israeli organization that was formed after 1982 to
monitor the media...” Cheryl A. Rubenberg:
Israel and the
American National Interest: A Critical Examination, University
of Illinois Press, 1986. ISBN 0-252-06074-1, p.339Another
pro-Israeli organization that was formed after 1982 to monitor the
media is the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
(CAMERA). She further stated that CAMERA was one of several ‘new
groups’ which constituted the
“Israeli lobby” at the
time.Rubenberg, p.353-54,
The term “Israeli lobby” loosely refers to the
approximately thirty-eight major Jewish groups that concern
themselves with Israel and with influencing US Middle East policy
to serve the interests of the Jewish state. (Since the 1982 war in
Lebanon, there has been a proliferation of new groups, in addition
to the thirty-eight, such as ASFI, CAMERA, and others.)
Writing in The Nation in 1987,
journalist Robert I. Friedman similarly described CAMERA as
having been formed in the wake of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon
"to keep the U.S. press in line," noting that the organization's
activities at the time included publishing a newsletter and placing
advertisements in The
Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic in support of
Israel's West
Bank
settlement
policies.
In 1988, Edward Said, a political
activist and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University, argued that
not even the Israeli government
has ventured arguments as extreme as CAMERA, and that "surely, the
Israeli lobby can find better propaganda methods than this!"
In 1991, Levin succeeded Winifred
Meiselman as executive director of CAMERA. According to the
organization's website, CAMERA’s membership grew from 1,000 in 1991
to 55,000 in 2007 The director of the Washington office of CAMERA
is Eric Rozenman.
Structure, staff, and activities
On its official website, CAMERA describes itself as "a
media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to
promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle
East" which "fosters rigorous reporting, while educating news
consumers about Middle East issues and the role of the media."
CAMERA further describes itself as a "non-partisan organization"
which "takes no position with regard to American or Israeli
political issues or with regard to ultimate solutions to the
Arab-Israeli conflict." CAMERA complained in 2008 that
the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations (of which it is a member) did not consult it
before disinviting Republican vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin to an
anti-Ahmadinejad rally. CAMERA
has also criticized the Israeli non-governmental organization
B'Tselem for some of its reporting on
Israel.
CAMERA staff members monitor media coverage of the Middle East, and
directly contact media organizations and reporters to "refute"
information the organization perceives as "distorted or
inaccurate." The organization also publishes monographs about
topics relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
CAMERA is a member of the Israel Campus Roundtable, which
includes the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Anti-Defamation League, The David Project
Center for Jewish Leadership, and other pro-Israel
organizations. As a member of this Campus Roundtable, CAMERA
operates on college campuses to combat what it perceives as
"propagandistic assaults on Israel . . . creating harmful
misperceptions of Israel" and "publishes a student-focused
magazine, CAMERA on Campus, containing specialized information
useful in countering misinformation."See "CAMERA on College Campuses":Increasingly, campuses
have been the scene of propagandistic assaults on Israel. Distorted
literature, extreme speakers and false, inflammatory images are all
too common, creating harmful misperceptions of Israel. This hostile
environment can be intimidating to students seeking fair and
objective information on Middle East issues.
CAMERA publishes a student-focused magazine, CAMERA on Campus,
containing specialized information useful in countering
misinformation. CAMERA also provides one-on-one assistance to
students who encounter Middle East distortions in campus
publications, flyers, rallies and classroom teaching. The managing
editors of CAMERA On Campus is Deborah Passner. For
undergraduates willing to write op-eds and organize pro-Israel
events on campus, CAMERA has offered student representative
positions which include compensation and training in Israel.
Criticism by CAMERA
Among the organizations and works that have been criticized by
CAMERA are:
ABC News anchor Peter Jennings
"We've long considered him anti-Israel", CAMERA's founder Andrea
Levin has commented of Peter
Jennings, after an incident in which CAMERA, and eventually
also the Columbia Journalism
Review, took issue with Jennings and ABC
News for balking at correcting a misquote of Benjamin Netanyahu .
National Public Radio
CAMERA's report, "A Record of Bias: National Public Radio's
Coverage of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: September 26 – November 26,
2000" (2001) asserts that National
Public Radio's "coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict has long been
marred by a striking anti-Israel tilt, with severe bias, error and
lack of balance commonplace." CAMERA supported a boycott of NPR,
and demanded the firing of NPR's foreign editor, Loren Jenkins.
CAMERA charged that Jenkins has a long record of partisanship in
favor of Palestinian views, and that he has let his personal views
tilt NPR's coverage. CAMERA charges that Jenkins has linked Israel
to Nazis in his writings, and referred to Israel as a
"colonizer."
NPR's then-Ombudsman, Jeffrey A. Dvorkin, said in a 2002 interview
that CAMERA used selective citations and subjective definitions of
what it considers pro-Palestinian bias in formulating its findings,
and that he felt CAMERA's campaign was "a kind of McCarthyism, frankly, that bashes us and causes
people to question our commitment to doing this story fairly. And
it exacerbates the legitimate anxieties of many in the Jewish
community about the survival of Israel."
Encarta
In an article originally published in the Jerusalem Post and posted on the official
website of CAMERA, Andrea Levin, the Executive Director of CAMERA,
describes Microsoft's digital multimedia encyclopedia Encarta as "a troubling mix of solid
information, bias and error." In particular, Levin points to the articles
written by Shaul Cohen of the University of Oregon
, which Levin claims "blurs Arab aggression against
the Jews from the Mandate period to the present, repeatedly
equating the violence by the parties."
Steven Spielberg's film Munich
In her film review of Munich
(2005), posted on the official website of CAMERA, Andrea Levin
claims that the film (a collaboration of director Steven Spielberg and
playwright–screenwriter Tony Kushner)
promotes "its thesis of Israeli culpability" and that "Israel's
action battling its adversaries is cast as aberrant, bloody and
counterproductive." Levin continues: "indeed, it is stunning to
watch Munich and realize that its director [Spielberg] brought
Schindler's List to the
world. Where that was artistry drawn from truth, Munich is
cinematic manipulation rooted in lies."
Mearsheimer and Walt
CAMERA
published a detailed critique by Alex
Safian of Harvard
University
professor Stephen Walt
and University of
Chicago
professor John
Mearsheimer's The Israel Lobby and
U.S. Foreign Policy
paper. Safian argued that it is "riddled with errors of fact, logic
and omission, has inaccurate citations, displays extremely poor
judgement regarding sources, and, contrary to basic scholarly
standards, ignores previous serious work on the subject. The bottom
line: virtually every word and argument is, or ought to be, in
'serious dispute.' In other words, a student who submitted such a
paper would flunk."
God's Warriors
CAMERA published a critique of Christiane Amanpour's CNN documentary series God's
Warriors, calling it "one of the most grossly distorted
programs to appear on mainstream American television", "false in
its basic premise", and "a perfect illustration of classical
propaganda techniques". Christiane Amanpour has responded that the
documentary is not meant to compare religions, but rather to show
"that each faith has their committed and fervent believers, and
we're showing how each of those are active in the political sphere
in today's world."
"Israel's Jewish Defamers"
In October 2007, CAMERA organized a conference entitled "Israel's
Jewish Defamers," in which a panel of discussants accused selected
Jewish critics of Israel, as well as one of Israel's leading
newspaper, Haaretz, of distortions and
falsehoods about Israel. CAMERA director Andrea Levin described the
Jewish critics — who included Princeton University’s Richard Falk, writer Norman Finkelstein, New York Review of Books
contributor Henry Siegman, former
New York Times columnist Anthony
Lewis, Trent
University
professor
Michael Neumann, and Tikkun magazine publisher Michael Lerner — of being guilty of
"demonstrably false and baseless defaming of Israel, wildly
distorted out of context accusations against Israel." Among
the panelists were writer Cynthia
Ozick and Harvard psychiatrist Kenneth
Levin, who likened the Jewish critics to chronically abused
children.
In response, Anthony Lewis told the New York Sun that the
conference was "about a nonexistent phenomenon," noting that Jewish
criticism of Israeli policies was not necessarily defamatory.
Haaretz's editor-in-chief, David Landau, refused to comment on the
conference, citing that "it was "a matter of policy and principle"
not to respond to CAMERA, which Landau described as "McCarthyite."
Tikkun editor Lerner also rejected the notion that he was
anti-Israel.
2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict
In response to coverage of the 2008–2009
Israel–Gaza conflict, CAMERA criticized the reporting of the
Los Angeles Times,
CNN,, Ha'aretz,, NPR, the U.N. Relief
and Works Agency, and Norwegian doctors being funded by the
Norwegian ministry who appeared on media outlets such as the
BBC and CBS. CAMERA said that in its view
reporting from the Los Angeles Times "consistently omitted key
information about Gaza Strip sites targeted by the Israeli army"
and gives the false impression that Israel doesn't aim to prevent
civilian deaths. CAMERA criticized Ha'aretz for "confusion
and misinformation on the medical issue" in its "outlining what
medical supplies Gaza is reportedly lacking and ignoring all
incoming medical aid".
Quotation misattributed to Moshe Ya'alon
In early 2009 CAMERA began investigating the dissemination of
a quotation widely
misattributed to Moshe Ya'alon, "The
Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of
their consciousness that they are a defeated people", after the
quotation was cited by Rashid
Khalidi, a Columbia
University professor, in an op-ed article
in the New York Times. The quotation,
and variants, had previously been repeated throughout the world by
news broadcasts, blogs, and in reputable publications such as the
Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Toronto
Star, Time Magazine, and the
London Review of Books. The
belief that Ya'alon, a high-ranking Israeli military official, had
expressed disregard for Palestinian people in this manner
reinforced an opinion among some readers and commentators that
Israel was the aggressor and Palestinians their victims. However,
Ya'alon did not make the statement in the 2002 Haaretz interview generally cited as its source, and
appears never to have made the statement at all. In part due to
CAMERA's campaign, a number of international newspapers, including
the New York Times, issued corrections.
Criticism of CAMERA
Boston Globe
- In a 2003 profile of the organization in the Boston Globe, Mark Jurkowitz observed:
"To its supporters, CAMERA is figuratively - and
perhaps literally - doing God's work, battling insidious
anti-Israeli bias in the media. But its detractors see CAMERA as a
myopic and vindictive special interest group
trying to muscle its views into media coverage. ... To many in the
media CAMERA is ... an advocacy group trying to impose its
pro-Israeli views on mainstream journalism."
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The group has been criticized as not seeking accuracy in reporting
but rather engaging in censorship and fighting for a pro-Israeli
bias:
Journalists
- Journalist and author Robert I. Friedman wrote in 1987 that
"CAMERA, the A.D.L., AIPAC and the rest of the lobby don't want
fairness, but bias in their favor. And they are prepared to use
McCarthyite tactics, as well as the power and money of pro-Israel
PACs, to get whatever Israel wants."
- Writing about criticisms from CAMERA he and his colleagues have
received, Jerusalem-based journalist Gershom Gorenberg wrote "It is
not the press's job to provide PR
for any government. Until CAMERA gets this straight,
self-respecting journalists will regard an occasional snarl from
the watchdog as proof that they're doing their job."
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
- Writing about attempts by CAMERA to get a
local Pasadena,
California
church to cancel an appearance by Palestinian
activist Reverend Naim Ateek, Rob Eshman,
Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Journal of
Greater Los Angeles, wrote "I'm always leery when Jewish groups
ride in from out of town to try to save us from the bad
guys. We have plenty of sharp-eyed Jewish defense groups
locally who can tussle on our behalf. It's just a bit condescending
to think we rubes, out in America's second-largest Jewish city,
don't know how and when to fight. Or whom." Eshman later clarified
that his criticism was directed specifically at CAMERA's handling
of the Ateek visit, and not toward the organization in general. "I
think CAMERA, which in so many cases I find useful and correct, is
in this case making things worse," he wrote.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- In 2005, Donald Wagner, Executive Director of the Center for
Middle Eastern Studies and Associate Professor of Religion and
Middle Eastern Studies at Northpark University, accused the
organization of "extremist pro-Israel propaganda" and argued that
"Israel and its friends at CAMERA claimed "there were no new
settlements" while "not only did the settler population double, so
too did new settlement construction in the 108 new 'settlement
outposts' established between the end of 1992 and 2000".
CAMERA Israeli lobby campaign in Wikipedia
In an April 2008 article, the pro-Palestinian advocacy siteGeorge
S. Hishmeh, Activists under cyber-attack in internet propaganda
war, The Daily Star (Lebanon), Monday, November 11, 2002.
NB: Given the headline, and context it is clear this is
one of the advocacy sites referred to, it is from the press and
this online copy is from the blog of the one of the people running
Electronic Intifada. "Nigel Parry, co-founder of Electronic
Intifada, one of the widely read online publications that has been
subjected to these attacks..."
Electronic Intifada revealed the
existence of a Google group set up by
CAMERA. The stated purpose of the group was "help[ing] us keep
Israel-related entries on Wikipedia from becoming tainted by
anti-Israel editors". Electronic Intifada accused CAMERA of
"orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the
popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian
history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia
administrative structures to ensure these changes go either
undetected or unchallenged".
A veteran Wikipedia editor, who according to Electronic Intifada,
was "colluding with CAMERA, also provided advice to CAMERA
volunteers on how they could disguise their agenda.". According to
the Electronic Intifada website, an e-mail by one member of the
Google group advised that "One or more of you who want to take this
route should stay away from any Israel realted articles for one
month until they interact in a positive way with 100 wikipedia
editors who would be used later to vote you as an administrator."
"There is no need to advertise the fact that we have these group
discussions," another e-mail recommended. The veteran Wikipedia
editor identified, in a 25 March email, another Wikipedia editor,
whom he viewed as an effective and independent pro-Israel advocate.
The veteran editor instructed CAMERA operatives to work with and
learn from the editor perceived to be an effective and independent
pro-Israel advocate. Excerpts of some of the e-mails were published
in the July 2008 issue of Harper's
Magazine under the title of ″Candid camera″. In April 2008,
CAMERA's "Senior Research Analyst" Gilead Ini would not confirm
that the messages were genuine but maintained that there was a
CAMERA email campaign which adhered to Wikipedia's rules. In August
2008, Ini argued the excerpts published in Harper's Magazine were
unrepresenative and that CAMERA had campaigned "toward encouraging
people to learn about and edit the online encyclopedia for
accuracy".
A group of Wikipedia administrators strongly believed an editor on
Wikipedia to be Gilead Ini and blocked that user account
indefinitely. In April 2008 Gilead refused to say whether he was
behind the Gni account, and in May 2008 he denied that the account
belonged to him. Andre Oboler, a Legacy Heritage Fellow at the
Israeli non-governmental organization NGO
Monitor, alleged that groups such as "Wikipedians for
Palestine" have engaged in similar practices. Electronic Intifada
co-founder Ali Abunimah insisted that
his group would never encourage a similar e-mail campaign.
Commenting on the incident, Gershom Gorenberg, of the liberal
magazine The American
Prospect, stated "CAMERA is ready to exempt itself from
the demands for accuracy that it aims at the media. And like others
engaged in the narrative wars, it does not understand the
difference between advocacy and accuracy." Gorenberg criticized
CAMERA for telling members not to share information about the
campaign with media, and he also argued Ini's definition of
accuracy "only means not printing anything embarrassing to his own
side". David Shamah, of The
Jerusalem Post, stated "the vast anti-Israel lobby that
haters of our country have managed to pull together" hate it when
groups like CAMERA mess up "their anti-Israel propaganda with
(gasp!) facts".
Five editors involved in the campaign were sanctioned by Wikipedia
administrators, who wrote that the project's open nature "is
fundamentally incompatible with the creation of a private group to
surreptitiously coordinate editing".
Notes
- "A brief history of CAMERA" on CAMERA's official web
site. Accessed August 14, 2007
- Manfred Gerstenfeld and Ben Green. Watching the Pro-Israeli Media Watchers. Jewish
Political Studies Review. 16:3-4 (Fall 2004).
- Murdoch, Son Differ Sharply Over Israel
- The American Prospect: J Street on the
Map
- New York Times: How Great Were the
Injustices of Arabs to Jews; 'Pacification' of Gaza
- "A brief history of CAMERA" on CAMERA's official web
site. Accessed October 23, 2006.
- CAMERA at Jewish Information and Referral Service.
- See "About CAMERA" and "Our Mission" as
featured on the official website.
- Israel National News: Anti-Palin Jews Shunned
Anti-Iran Rally
- Forward: Sparks Fly Over Decision To Exclude
Palin
- Israel National News: B'Tselem Tries to Steer
United States to the Left
- See "About CAMERA"
- CAMERA website, CAMERA
Publications: Monographs
- CAMERA: Apply NOW for CAMERA Student Rep Positions:
Earn $1000 and FREE TRIP TO ISRAEL!
- History News Network
- CAMERA March 27, 2001, accessed July 21,
2006.
- Press Release. CAMERA Calls on NPR to Fire Foreign Editor Loren
Jenkins. May 3, 2002.
- Pro-Israel Lobbyists Seek to Influence Coverage of
Mideast. Agence France-Presse, May 25, 2002
- Andrea Levin. Just Say No to NPR. The Jerusalem Post,
September 27, 2002.
- Camille T. Taiara. All bias
considered: Bizarre attack on NPR as "anti-Israel" shows how fringe
groups are pushing Mideast debate. San Francisco Bay
Guardian. May 28, 2003. See also Jeffrey A. Dvorkin, "NPR's Middle East 'Problem,'", NPR: Archive
of Ombudsman Columns February 22, 2002, accessed July 21, 2006. [In
June 2006 Dvorkin left the position of NPR Ombudsman to become the
executive director of the Committee of Concerned
Journalists (CCJ), an organization founded by Bill Kovach as part of the
Project for Excellence in
Journalism (CEJ), effective July 1, 2006; see Dvorkin's last
column as NPR Ombudsman,
[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5495702 "Dear
Listeners: Thanks and Farewell,"] and CEJ/CCJ press release, June 19, 2006.]
- "Microsoft's Encarta Muddles the Middle East,"
Jerusalem Post February 12, 2004, CAMERA May 26,
2006.
- "File Review of Munich: Spielberg and Kushner Smear
Israel," CAMERA December 21, 2005, accessed May 18,
2006.
- Alex Safian, "Study Decrying 'Israel Lobby' Marred by Numerous
Errors" ("Updated April 6: Rebutting charges of expulsion and
massacre"), CAMERA March 20, 2006, accessed March 24,
2006. Cf. "Reply to the Mearsheimer-Walt 'Working Paper'" by
Alan
Dershowitz of the Harvard Law School, in his essay "Debunking the Newest–and Oldest–Jewish Conspiracy,"
April 5, 2006, online posting, FrontPage
Magazine, n.d., accessed July 29, 2006 (pdf file); in
posting an excerpt from Dershowitz's "reply" in "Dershowitz Responds to Walt and Mearsheimer
Paper", CAMERA observes that Dershowitz cites "CAMERA's detailed refutation of Walt and
Mearsheimer's claims" (hyperlinking to Safian). See also Glenn
Frankel, "A Beautiful Friendship? In Search of the Truth
about the Israel Lobby's Influence on Washington," The Washington
Post July 16, 2006: W13.
- God's Jewish Warriors -- CNN's Abomination by
CAMERA
- I-Reporters quiz CNN's Amanpour
- Elliot Resnick. Conference Focuses On Israel's Jewish Defamers.
Jewish Press, October 24, 2007.
- Gabrielle Birkner. Conference Focuses On Israel's Jewish Defamers.
The New York Sun. October 19, 2007.
- Ben Harris. Media watchdog blasts ‘Israel’s Jewish
defamers’;Michael Lerner, Ha’aretz editor reject charges.
The Jewish Review, Vol 50, No. 8, October 2007.
- CAMERA: At LA Times, Obscured
Targets
- CAMERA: Who Broke the Ceasefire? CNN's
"Fact Check" Falls Short
- CAMERA: Pulse on Gaza's Medical
Situation
- CAMERA: Palestinian Spokesmen Rely on
Time-Tested Tactic
- CAMERA: Norwegian Doctors in Gaza:
Objective Observers or Partisan Propagandists?
- Mark Jurkowitz, "Blaming the Messenger: When the Pro-Israeli
Group CAMERA Sees News from the Middle East That It Deems Unfair Or
Wrong, It Targets the Media-And Doesn't Let Go," Boston Globe Magazine
February 9, 2003: 10, History News Network (George
Mason University) April 24, 2006.
- Mitchell Kaidy, "CAMERA and FLAME: Pressuring U.S.
Media," Washington Report
on Middle East Affairs July/Aug. 1993: 29, WRMEA
Archive of Back Issues April 10, 2006; cf. CAMERA
on Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
accessed August 13, 2006.
- Robert I. Friedman. The lobby: Jewish political power and
American foreign policy. The Nation 244.(June 6,
1987).
- Gershom Gorenberg. Uncandid CAMERA. Moment Magazine.
Washington: Oct/Nov 2007. Vol. 32, Iss. 5; pg. 14
- Rob Eshman. Butt Out. The Jewish Journal of Greater
Los Angeles January 25, 2008.
- Rob Eshman. Response to CAMERA letter. The Jewish Journal of
Greater Los Angeles, February 1, 2008.
- Hope for the Holy Land Conference: The
Presenters
- Sojourners: Trouble spots
- "Pro-Israel group's plan to re-write history on Wikipedia."
[1]. Electronic Initifada. April 21,
2008.
- CAMERA: CAMERA Letter in Harper's Magazine About
Wikipedia Issues
- The Jewish Week: "Latest Front In Mideast
Wars: Wikipedia"
- Gorenberg, Gershom. The Mideast Editing Wars. The American
Prospect, May 1, 2008.
- Shamah, David. "Digital World: Internet Independence Day",
The Jerusalem Post, May 6, 2008
- Monica G. Prieto, "¿Se puede reescribir la historia? (Is it possible
to re-write history?)", El Mundo, April 23, 2008,
accessed 2008-04-29
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