Why are legacy news outlets assisting released Palestinian terrorists in getting away with actual murder?
Habbes Bayoud (in framed photograph) participated in brutal Ramallah lynching of two Israeli reservists who took a wrong turn in 2000. AP erased his crime (Screenshot from Palestinian Media Watch)
Using the current Israel-Hamas ceasefire as their cue to place Palestinian terrorists on equal footing as innocent Israeli hostages, some underperforming journalists are sanitizing the bloody records of hardcore terrorists.
“This is not about politics or strategy. It’s about humanity and the shared belief that no one should be left behind in darkness,” Moran Stella Yanai, an Israeli hostage released in the November 2023 ceasefire deal, told the Associated Press in anticipation of the release of more hostages (“Hamas OKs draft agreement of a Gaza ceasefire and the release of some hostages, officials say,” Jan. 15).
The leading wire service boasts to have “done more than any organization in the world to expand the reach of factual reporting.” But recent ceasefire coverage indicates that the news service’s prowess in advancing the faux humanity of terrorists, while obscuring terror victims in darkness.
Read the rest of Tamar Sternthal’s Jan. 29 Op-Ed in the Algemeiner.