Terrorists are not journalists. But some in the media would have you think otherwise.
In the Israel-Islamist conflict, there is a longstanding trend of news outlets portraying terror operatives as reporters. In doing so, they diminish the work of, and endanger, real journalists who are often doing dangerous work.
An April 1, 2025 article in Foreign Policy magazine embodies the problem. FP claims that the latest war between Israel and Hamas “has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia, the post-911 war in Afghanistan combined.”
The publication cited a new report by Brown University’s Costs of War project for proof. But there’s a problem with this claim: it’s a lie.
(Read the rest of CAMERA’s April 30, 2025 Op-Ed in the Algemeiner)