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The '''Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)''' is a powerful Bostonwas founded in 1982 to "respond to the Washington Post’s coverage of Israel’s Lebanon incursion, and to the paper’s general anti-based [[lobby group]] that tries Israel bias" according to curb criticism of the organization's website.<ref name=history>CAMERA [[Israel]] in Uhttps://www.Scamera. [[mediaorg/about/history/ History]].organizational site, accessed May 3, 2019</ref>

Founded by a powerful Boston-based [[Charles Jacobslobby group]] in the wake of Israel's 1982 invasion that tries to curb criticism of [[LebanonIsrael]], CAMERA claims to be "a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East"in U. 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 errorsS." [http://www.camera[media]].org/index.asp?x_context=24]

Founded by [[Winifred Meiselman]], CAMERA 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 Executive Directorwebsite, what sets it apart from other media watch-dog groups is "systematically monitors, documents, reviews and archives Middle East coverage" and its staffers "sizable payingdirectly contact reporters, editors, producers and publishers concerning distorted or inaccurate coverage, activist membershipoffering factual information to refute errors." <ref>CAMERA [httphttps://www.jcpacamera.org/phasabout/mission/phas-33.htmMission]organizational site, accessed May 3, 2019</ref>

According to an interview with [[Andrea Levin]] Executive Director of CAMERA, other media-watching groups that do not focus on Israel are "in no way comparable to CAMERA with its sizable paying, activist membership."<ref>Manfred Gerstenfeld [http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-33.htm Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism] Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed May 3, 2019</ref> CAMERA is widely regarded as a pro-Israeli lobby group that as put by Journalist journalist and author Robert I. Friedman - "CAMERA, the A.D.L., AIPAC and the rest of the lobby don't want fairness, but bias in their favor. And they are prepared to use McCarthyite tactics, as well as the power and money of pro-Israel PACs, to get whatever Israel wants."<ref>Robert I. Friedman, "The lobby: Jewish political power and American foreign policy", ''The Nation'', June 6, 1987, page 244.</ref>