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Christians for Fair Witness is Concerned about America Magazine's Omissions and Misrepresentations in the Israeli/Palestinian ConflictChristians for Fair Witness on the Middle East ("Fair Witness") is concerned about the unbalanced manner in which the weekly Jesuit publication America Magazine has covered the conflict in the Middle East.

A careful review of America's coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict over the past fourteen months (September 2008- October 2009) revealed repeated omissions and misrepresentations which invariably resulted in Israel's actions being portrayed in a particularly negative light while the relative culpability of Palestinian militants and their political leadership was seriously downplayed.

This is in contravention of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications' instruction that:

 

Communication must always be truthful, since truth is essential to individual liberty and to authentic community among persons . . . (Ethics in Communications, IV, June 4, 2000)

and the Councila's caution to the media against:

 

. . . fostering hostility and conflict, demonizing others and creating a mentality of "us" against "them" . . . (Ethics in Communications, III(13))

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