This March 31, 2026 Op-Ed by CAMERA’s Tamar Sternthal appeared in The Washington Examiner.
Why is the legacy media parroting Iranian propaganda justifying war crimes?
Home Front Command rescue and recovery forces operate at a missile impact site at a home in northern Israel March 31, 2026 (Photo courtesy of IDF X account)
The city of Dimona “is home to Israel’s nuclear program,” CNN’s Jessica Dean falsely described the southern Israeli city hit on March 21 in an Iranian missile strike that injured dozens, including a 12-year-old boy in serious condition.
“Israel says Iranian missile struck town housing nuclear facility,” was AFP’s radioactive headline.
The Washington Post also chimed in about “Dimona, which is home to a sensitive nuclear facility.”
“An Iranian missile wounded dozens in Dimona, a city believed to house Israel’s nuclear weapons program,” a New York Times subheadline likewise claimed. In a correction subsequently prompted by media watchdog CAMERA, the Gray Lady backtracked that Dimona is not home to the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, which lies some 9 miles to the southeast.
Like the ballistic missile that slammed into the heart of the desert neighborhood, the media falsehood casting the residential city of Dimona as housing a legitimate nuclear target hit squarely home.
In the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Israeli homefront has played an extraordinarily outsized role.
Read the rest of Tamar Sternthal’s Op-Ed in The Washington Examiner.