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CiF Watch (renamed [[UK Media Watch]] and then [[CAMERA-UK]]) is a website purportedly dedicated 'to monitoring and exposing antisemitism on the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Comment is Free’ blog'.<ref>CiF Watch, [http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/08/24/cif-watch-website-launched-to-combat-antisemitism-on-the-guardian-newspaper%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98comment-is-free%E2%80%99-blog/ CiF Watch Website Launched to Combat Antisemitism on the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Comment is Free’ blog], ''Harry's Place'', 24 August 2009</ref>  
 
CiF Watch (renamed [[UK Media Watch]] and then [[CAMERA-UK]]) is a website purportedly dedicated 'to monitoring and exposing antisemitism on the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Comment is Free’ blog'.<ref>CiF Watch, [http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/08/24/cif-watch-website-launched-to-combat-antisemitism-on-the-guardian-newspaper%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98comment-is-free%E2%80%99-blog/ CiF Watch Website Launched to Combat Antisemitism on the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Comment is Free’ blog], ''Harry's Place'', 24 August 2009</ref>  
  
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However, its main tasks appears to be to anonymously smear such anti-Zionists as Seth Freedman, Antony Lerman etc.<ref>See for example: Joy Wolfe, [http://cifwatch.com/2010/01/23/despicable-seth/ Despicable Seth], ''CiF Watch'', 23 January 2010 and Israelinurse, [http://cifwatch.com/2010/01/22/altogether-now/ Altogether Now], ''CiF Watch'', 22 January 2010</ref> Despite its frequent uses of slurs to defame critics of Israel, it has received the endorsements of [[Harry's Place]],  and of [[Emanuele Ottolenghi]] on the Commentary Blog.<ref>Emanuele Ottolenghi, [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/ottolenghi/78142 Sweden’s Double Standard], ''Commentary'', 25 August 2009</ref>
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However, its main tasks appears to be to anonymously smear such anti-Zionists as Seth Freedman, Antony Lerman etc.<ref>See for example: [[Joy Wolfe]], [http://cifwatch.com/2010/01/23/despicable-seth/ Despicable Seth], ''CiF Watch'', 23 January 2010 and Israelinurse, [http://cifwatch.com/2010/01/22/altogether-now/ Altogether Now], ''CiF Watch'', 22 January 2010</ref> Despite its frequent uses of slurs to defame critics of Israel, it has received the endorsements of [[Harry's Place]],  and of [[Emanuele Ottolenghi]] on the Commentary Blog.<ref>Emanuele Ottolenghi, [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/ottolenghi/78142 Sweden’s Double Standard], ''Commentary'', 25 August 2009</ref>
  
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CiF Watch is a project of [[Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America]] (CAMERA).<ref name="aboutcifwatch">[http://cifwatch.com/about/ About], CiFWatch, acessed 15 January 2015</ref>
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CiF Watch is a project of [[Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America]] (CAMERA).<ref name="aboutcifwatch">[https://web.archive.org/web/20150215103006/http://cifwatch.com/about/ About], CiFWatch. From the Internet Archive of 15 February 2015</ref>
  
 
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==People==

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CiF Watch (renamed UK Media Watch and then CAMERA-UK) is a website purportedly dedicated 'to monitoring and exposing antisemitism on the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Comment is Free’ blog'.[1]

However, its main tasks appears to be to anonymously smear such anti-Zionists as Seth Freedman, Antony Lerman etc.[2] Despite its frequent uses of slurs to defame critics of Israel, it has received the endorsements of Harry's Place, and of Emanuele Ottolenghi on the Commentary Blog.[3]

CiF Watch is a project of Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).[4]

People

In January 2015

Notes

  1. ↑ CiF Watch, CiF Watch Website Launched to Combat Antisemitism on the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Comment is Free’ blog, Harry's Place, 24 August 2009
  2. ↑ See for example: Joy Wolfe, Despicable Seth, CiF Watch, 23 January 2010 and Israelinurse, Altogether Now, CiF Watch, 22 January 2010
  3. ↑ Emanuele Ottolenghi, Sweden’s Double Standard, Commentary, 25 August 2009
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 About, CiFWatch. From the Internet Archive of 15 February 2015