COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
Following communication from CAMERA Arabic, BBC Arabic once again corrected a reference to Jewish communities inside Israel’s internationally recognised territory as “settlements” (before/after): “Militants…
A post by CAMERA Arabic Following a series of communications with CAMERA Arabic, three media outlets – including BBC Arabic – have corrected false…
Sky News Arabia – a joint venture of Comcast (the American owner of UK-based Sky News) and Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation – has a…
An article in The Times (“Missile from Syria explodes near Israeli nuclear reactor”, April 22) by their Middle East correspondent Richard Spencer included the…
Following a mid-June series of communications (both private and on social media) between CAMERA Arabic and Independent Arabia correspondents and editors, it was agreed…
A post by CAMERA Arabic On July 1st, as the BBC was busy promoting the narrative that extension of Israeli sovereignty to parts of…
The political premise of the recent UN blacklist of companies doing business in the West Bank, which represents conventional wisdom in the mainstream media, is that Israeli ‘settlements’ represent the biggest obstacle to peace. Yet, this conclusion regarding the ‘root cause’ of the conflict simply doesn’t hold up to critical scrutiny.
Last week’s round of hostilities between Israel and Islamic Jihad saw hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli communities – the “Gaza envelope”…
Editors upheld our complaint after we provided evidence demonstrating that between the late 1970s and 2016, there was not one president or secretary of state who labeled the settlements “illegal”. Rather, most – other than Ronald Reagan, who explicitly rejected the view that they were illegal – have characterised them as politically “illegitimate”, or an obstacle to peace, without taking a position on their legal status.
Whilst this blog takes no position on Israeli communities across the green line, we do take a strident position on holding British media outlets accountable to the accuracy clause of the UK Editors’ Code of Practice. So, over the past several days, we’ve pushed back against multiple outlets – including the Guardian, Independent, Economist, Telegraph and Financial Times – that have misrepresented longstanding US policy on settlements in the context of reports on the new US decision that they are not illegal.