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hings are heating up —
again — between Na-
tional Public Radio and
CAMERA (the Commit-
tee for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America).
The pro-Israel media watch-
dog group has again called re-
porting from Israel by NPR's
Linda Gradstein biased, in-
complete and pro-Arab — and
at least one NPR official seems
to have lost his patience with
the organization.
In a news release last week,
Andrea Levin, CAMERA's na-
tional president, said NPR's cov-
erage of Israel is "shaped almost
invariably to fit a political agen-
da in which that nation is the
victimizer of oppressed Arabs.
Coverage of Baruch Goldstein's
massacre of 29 Arabs at prayer
was no exception."
Ms. Levin faulted NPR for
not presenting the killings as
"the fanatic act of a single Jew
— an aberration," but as "a log-
ical development in the fable of
Arab good and Israeli evil."
Ms. Levin was particularly
exercised at recent dispatches
from Ms. Gradstein. In one, she
interviewed young Arab stu-
dents who "expressed solidari-
ty with Palestinians in the ter-
ritories and resentment of
Israel," followed by Ms. Grad-
stein listing their grievances:
Arabs "say they are treated as
second-class citizens. They say
Jews don't want to hire them.
... In the Israeli Parliament, six
of the 120 members are Arabs,
but they are prevented from
serving on certain committees,
such as intelligence. There has
never been an Arab cabinet
minister."
Ms. Levin commented that
"trusting listeners [of NPR]
were not ... reminded of the re-
markable irony that of 200 mil-
lion Arabs in the Middle East,
the 800,000 living as citizens
among 4 million Jews enjoy the
greatest political freedom, vot-
ing in the sole democracy and
electing representatives to sit
in its parliament."
Of allegations that Ms. Grad-
stein deliberately — and mali-
ciously — overlooked freedoms
that Arabs enjoy in Israel, es-
pecially compared to those lack-
ing in Arab nations, John
Dinges, NPR's editorial direc-
tor, said, "In a three-minute re-
port [as Ms. Gradstein filed],
you're not required to talk about
a continent-wide phenomenon."
Ms. Levin also complained
that Ms. Gradstein had mis-
translated Arab chants at the
funeral for Anton Shamili, a
member of the Popular Front
for a Liberated Palestine shot
by Israeli soldiers. CAMERA
states that Ms. Gradstein told
listeners that mourners were
shouting, "Anton, Anton, you
were murdered. We promise to
continue your struggle," when
they were actually chanting,
"With fire and blood, we will lib-
erate Palestine."
Mr. Dinges explained that
the mistranslation occurred be-
cause NPR technicians in
Washington failed to follow Ms.
Gradstein's instructions about
how to splice her taped com-
ments about events in the field
with her taped "feed" of those
actual events.
He said such glitches happen
"from time to time," and specu-
lated that it occurred in this in-
Ms. Levin faulted
NPR for not
presenting the
killings as "the
fanatic act of a
single Jew."
stance because no one at NPR
headquarters knew Arabic and
could translate the chanting at
Mr. Shamili's funeral.
Mr. Dinges said NPR "stands
behind" Ms. Gradstein, whose
reporting he called "unassail-
able, by any standards of jour-
nalism."
He now refuses to respond di-
rectly to CAMERA about its
criticism of NPR since "we've
defended ourselves repeatedly
in letters to CAMERA and it's
refused to reprint any of these
rebuttals in its newsletter.
CAMERA says it will give us
space in its newsletter if we give
them airtime. That's outra-
geous."
Mr. Din ge,s was not entirely
accurate. In its Jan. 4, 1993,
newsletter, CAMERA printed
excerpts from a three-page let-
ter from him rebutting a recent
study by CAMERA that con-
cluded that NPR was biased
against Israel.
Although the network had
requested that CAMERA
reprint the letter "unedited and
in full," the media group re-
sponded that such a request
was against its "usual practice."