CAMERA BLOG
Dozens of Corrections Published After AP Erases Convicted Prisoner’s Deadly Crime
February 12, 2025

CAMERA’s Israel office yesterday prompted correction of an Associated Press article which had erased the deadly crime of released Palestinian prisoner Imad Abu Aliya, resulting in nearly 50 additional corrections in media outlets across North America and beyond. Dozens of secondary media outlets which use AP content published the wire service’s significant correction, clarifying that the terrorist was convicted for intentional manslaughter and incitement, not simply affiliation with Hamas…AP editors agreed with CAMERA that a correction of the misinformation was in order, and commendably amended the passage to accurately report that “Imad Abu Aliya, was freed Saturday after serving four and a half years for a conviction of intentional manslaughter and anti-Israel incitement…” READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Yale Professor Exposes New York Times’ Systematic Minimization of Hamas, Palestinian Violence in Gaza War A recent analysis by a Yale professor claimed The New York Times‘ coverage of the Gaza conflict downplayed Israeli losses after the Hamas terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion…The study — published last month and conducted by Edieal Pinker, a professor and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management — examined 1,561 articles published by the Times between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024. It concluded that the newspaper’s reporting adhered to a “specific narrative” in which Israel was largely portrayed as the primary aggressor while Palestinian suffering received dominant coverage.