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Tamar Sternthal

Tamar Sternthal

Tamar Sternthal is director of the Israel office of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).

The U.N. manipulated unverifiable data, prompting baseless media reports about Palestinians killed by settlers.
Instead of fulfilling its promise to “expand the reach of factual reporting,” AP is contracting that reach by peddling partiality.
By falsely reporting that the longest-ruling Jewish kingdom in Israel fell in fewer than 100 years, the newspaper erodes the legitimacy of the modern Jewish state.
Dueij, 32, who was shot in the leg during a violent riot at the Israel-Gaza border, was a fighter in the Al Qassam Brigade, the terror group’s armed wing.
Like “The New York Times” before it, “The Associated Press” has published a biased and defamatory photo-essay on the May fighting between Israel and Hamas.
“Expand the reach of factual reporting,” promises the news agency, even as it suppresses information contradicting the favored anti-Israel narrative.
How many young lives were tragically lost due to misfired Palestinian rockets? How many were involved with terror groups, and how many died because they were in close proximity to senior Hamas targets?
Instead of exposing the anti-Semitic canard behind secretive artist Banksy’s new “Scar of Bethlehem” piece or choosing not to give the vitriolic message a platform, media outlets uniformly provided warm, approving coverage.
The paper promises its readers “the world’s most trusted perspective.” Yet the complete misreading of a rather blatant political ad exposes, once again, the paper’s failure to deliver up factual reporting.
As for the content of the “correction,” most of Jaffa’s Arab residents fled in 1948; they were not forcibly removed.
The disproportionate focus on criticism of Israel, including its very existence, is hardly a new phenomenon.
Who qualifies as a reliable witness who can shed light on murky or unsubstantiated specific events in a hotly-disputed ongoing conflict? Specifically, who qualifies as a credible witness when it comes to violent clashes at the Israel-Gaza border?