Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America

Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) [1] is a powerful pro-Israel lobby group that tries to suppress criticism of Israel on US media. It uses its enrmous financial and political clout to force media elements to tow Israel's party line. Founded in 1982, the organization claims to be "a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East". According to its website, it "systematically monitors, documents, reviews and archives Middle East coverage" and its staffers "directly contact reporters, editors, producers and publishers concerning distorted or inaccurate coverage, offering factual information to refute errors".[2]

CAMERA on Campus

CAMERA on Campus is a publication of CAMERA that tries to monitor and silence criticism of Israel on the campuses of various American institutions. In 2005 CAMERA on Campus played a prominent role in the attack on MEALAC department at Columbia University, and even ran interviews with one of the chief crusaders, Prof. Alan Dershowitz of Harvard [3], who himself was busy fending off accusations of plagiarising Joan Peter's 1984 hoax From Time Immemorial [4][5], and trying to suppress Norman Finkelstein's book in which the charge has been thoroughly documented.