Andrea Levin

Andrea Levin is director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a pro-Israel American nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Boston. The New York Times has described CAMERA as a "muscular pro-Zionist media monitor." [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/weekinreview/24okrent.html?scp=4&sq=%22If+Americans+Knew%22++&st=nyt "The Hottest Button: How The Times Covers Israel and Palestine", Daniel Okrent, April 24, 2005] ] Levin was born in the mid-1940s in Manhattan, grew up as an "Army brat", once taught English in the Philadelphia public schools, and later worked at the Kennedy School of Government as an associate editor of the "Journal of Policy Analysis and Management". [http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/manager/features/display_message.asp?mid=593 "Blaming the Messenger", Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Globe, Feb. 9, 2003] ]

Involvement at CAMERA

Levin's involvement in CAMERA began in 1988 when she wrote an article for the Boston-area weekly "The Tab", critical of the "Boston Globe"'s coverage of the first Palestinian intifada. In an interview in 2003, she told the "Globe", "I was not very acquainted with the established Jewish community," but began receiving calls after her piece was published.

Levin, a former associate editor of the "Journal of Policy Analysis and Management", has been quoted on the issue of media bias in various sources. ["A Violent World: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War", Nitzan Ben-Shaul (2007), p. 124] ["Jesus and the Culture Wars: Reclaiming the Lord's Prayer", C. J. Conner (2007), p. 161] ["A Diary of Four Years of Terrorism and Anti-Semitism: 2000-2004", Robert R Friedmann (2005), p. 143]

Levin told an interviewer, "I think pro-Israeli media watching has an importance beyond the cause of Israel. Efforts that induce better adherence to ethical journalism in one subject area are positive generally in helping to strengthen American democracy, especially, again, as there are no enforceable codes of professional conduct in the media." [ [http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-33.htm Interview with Andrea Levin, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 1, 2005] ]

Publications

"Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter's "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" by Andrea Levin, Alex Safian, and Gilead Ini

ee also

*Commentary on Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

External links

* [http://www.camera.org/ CAMERA] Official website.
* [http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1273 Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter's Palestine Peace Not Apartheid]
* [http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-33.htm "CAMERA: Fighting Distorted Media Coverage of Israel and the Middle East: An Interview with Andrea Levin"] (Exec. Dir. of CAMERA) at Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Authors.aspx?GUID={87935FBD-8440-4BEA-BE91-AF0A9643D083} FrontPage Magazine: Andrea Levin Recent Articles]

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