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More on CAMERA and Wikipedia

May 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics and Policy

Journalistic colleagues - in the Jewish and general American media - have emailed me to thank me for my recent column on CAMERA’s apparent efforts to slant Wikipedia articles. The notes came with comments like “batten down the hatches” or “hope they don’t throw eggs at your house.” I felt like the kid who took [...]

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CAMERA: Committee for Agitprop in Middle Eastern Reporting

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics and Policy

CAMERA, which claims to monitor the accuracy of reporting on Israel in the American media, doesn’t feel obligated to be all that truthful itself, as I explain in my new column at the American Prospect. A CAMERA staffer organized activists to work as a group to edit Wikipedia articles on Israel - while hiding their [...]

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Telling the Story and Doubting It, Too

March 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

On Shabbat afternoon I walked over to the Ramban synagogue in the Greek Colony to attend the popular weekly talk by Rabbi Binyamin Lau. This week’s topic was Daniel.
Daniel, as related in his eponymous biblical book, was a boy from a family exiled by Nebuchadnezzar from Judea to Babylonia. He is educated in the school [...]

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