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In discuss- ing international medical And Media Abuse relief to Armenia after the Anti-Defamation League earthquake, The Lancet omit- Regional Director Richard ted the major contribution by Lobenthal's reflection that Israel. Recently, it published "Anytime a minority group is a picture titled "Palestinian in the news, you will see an hanging," of a naked man. increase of intimidation The accompanying letter was against it" is a point that the devoted only to the Turkish Arab-American community torture of the Kurds. can well attest to. Between 1964 and 1986, on- As a Semitic people, Arab- ly three letters and columns Americans have been on the on the Palestinian conflict receiving end of considerable were published in The Lancet. abuse directly influenced by Since 1987 and the onset of events reported in the media. the intifida, there have been More significant, though, is 21 publications. Unfortunate- the fact that abuse is more ly, this journal is not alone. often precipitated by the Medical and nursing journals slanted and stereotypic man- from New Zealand to Scan- ner in which those reports are dinavia have published created and disseminated. similar types of articles. We must not only confront Physicians for Human Rights and challenge the small- has published a highly minded bigots in our society critical report of Israel who carry out the physical medical services in the ter- act, we also must hold accoun- ritories and refused to include table those individuals in their report the Israeli responsible for inciting this Health Ministry's response. despicable element by whip- This same group has targeted ping up emotions through the Israel for investigation and kind of character assassina- has extensively publicized its tion we so often see in subjec- highly critical report on tive reporting. Israel, while ignoring Syria, When someone pulls the Egypt, Libya, Jordan, trigger • of a gun, he is not Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and alone in his guilt when so- Iran. Some journals engage in meone else is there encourag- geographical misinformation, ing, in whatever form, the ac- identifying in their titles that tion undertaken. the West Bank is part of Jor- Joseph Borrajo dan — despite King Hussein's Chairman, Arab-American official abandonment of that Voter and Education Committee territory. World Health, an of- ficial magazine of the World Health organization, recently New Group Fights published a map of Africa and the Middle East where Israel Medical Bias was clearly labelled as CAMERA (Committee for Palestine. Accuracy in Middle East In response to these and Reporting in America) has other distortions published in been involved in the monitor- the medical and scientific ing of print and electronic press, I am forming a physi- media for misinformation and cians' group within one-sided coverage of Middle CAMERA's organization. Our East politics. As a physician, objectives are to monitor the I have noticed that the medical and scientific media medical and scientific press for false or misleading infor- has not been immune from mation, to point out to the ap- similar journalistic practices. propriate editors and readers In particular, I wish to call to the discrepancies and to cor- the attention of the greater rect the reporting. Our mis- Detroit-Ann Arbor medical sion is not to offer political community the widely read solutions or to advocate a par- British journal The Lancet, ticular policy. which has engaged in misin- Interested health profes- formation and biased re- sionals may write me in care porting on the Arab-Israeli of CAMERA, P.O. Box 428, conflict. The journal's bias Boston, MA 02258. against Israel is evident in its Dr. Seth Corey frequent publication of letters on the road could begin. The Michigan Supreme Court upheld the decision of the ar- bitration board. Both Lathrup Village and Pleasant Ridge unsuccessfully then sought reversal of the route award in federal court.