Among the organizations and works that have been criticized by CAMERA are:
National Public Radio CAMERA's 2001 report "A Record of Bias: National Public Radio's Coverage of the Arab–Israeli Conflict: September 26 – November 26, 2000" asserted 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 said that Jenkins had a long record of partisanship in favor of Palestinian views, and let his personal views tilt NPR's coverage. CAMERA also said Jenkins compared Israel to Nazi Germany in his writings and referred to it as a "colonizer". NPR's then-Ombudsman,
Jeffrey 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."
"Israel's Jewish Defamers" In October 2007, CAMERA organized a conference called "Israel's Jewish Defamers", in which a panel of discussants accused Jewish critics of Israel, as well as one of Israel's leading newspapers,
Haaretz, of distortions and falsehoods about Israel. CAMERA director Andrea Levin said the Jewish critics—who included
Richard Falk of
Princeton University, 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—were 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.
Haaretzs editor-in-chief,
David Landau, refused to comment on the conference, calling it "a matter of policy and principle" not to respond to CAMERA, which he called "McCarthyite".
Tikkun editor Michael Lerner also rejected the notion that he was anti-Israel.
Quotation misattributed to Moshe Ya'alon In 2009, CAMERA investigated 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". The quotation was attributed to a 2002
Haaretz interview, but Ya'alon never said it. CAMERA tracked publications that printed the quotation, such as
The New York Times, the
Chicago Tribune,
Boston Globe, the
Toronto Star, and
Time, which later issued corrections.
The New York Timess coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict In 2012, CAMERA released a monograph analyzing six months of
The New York Times's coverage of Israel, calling it "a disproportionate, continuous, embedded indictment of Israel that dominates both news and commentary sections". ==Reception==