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U.S. group accuses Irish Times of bias

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CONN CORRIGAN,
IrishCentral.Com StaffWriter

Published Thursday, April 2, 2009, 4:31 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:05 PM

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A new report from a pro-Israeli media monitoring organization has accused a leading Irish newspaper of bias in its Israeli-Palestine coverage.

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) has also said that the Irish Times is a “champion” of the Palestinian side in its Middle East coverage. The Irish Times is considered by many as the “paper of record” in Ireland.

CAMERA, which is based in the U.S., carried out a study of all articles in the Irish Times on Israel-Palestine, over a six-week period from December 2008 to January 2009, when Israel had launched a major bombardment of Gaza.

According to the World Health Organization, from December 27 to January 19, 1,366 Palestinians were killed in what the Israeli military called, “Operation Cast Lead.” During the same period, 14 Israelis lost their lives in the conflict.

The CAMERA study examined the reporting of three Irish Times journalists: Lara Marlow, Michael Jansen, and Mark Weiss, who together wrote 85 news articles on the conflict. Articles from other news sources, such as Reuters and the Guardian, were also included.

CAMERA concluded that “multiple instances of false information and unverifiable assertions leads one to question the overall veracity of the Irish Times' news content."

“Missing from the coverage was Hamas' anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda – its charter's anti-Semitic content, its rejection of a diplomatic end to the conflict, and its goal of seeking to replace a Jewish state with an Islamic caliphate,” the report says.

“Also missing was the context of Israel's complete withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 – and Hamas' decision to use the territory as a launching pad to attack Israeli civilians instead of building an infrastructure and economy to improve Palestinian lives there.”

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