The following CAMERA letter-to-the-editor published today in the Orlando Sentinel refutes Ray Hanania's claim that Israel had a hand in the founding of the Hamas terrorist organization.
Ray Hanania is a syndicated columnist whose articles regularly appear in the Chicago Daily Herald. CAMERA has frequently received complaints about the writer's work and has, on occasion, published critiques of it. Below is Mr. Hanania's response to a CAMERA critique:
Ray Hanania's July 4 column contained several serious errors...The fence being built between Israel and the West Bank to protect Israelis from terrorists has nothing to do with Gaza and nothing to do with the death of Rachel Corrie.
On January 10, 2003, the Chicago Daily Herald ran a column by Ray Hanania ("Israel's nuclear program should bother Americans") that was replete with distortions and inaccuracies. Below are some of the distortions Hanania presented in his column, followed by the facts.