U.S. media outlets repeatedly push claims that Israel has provided “no evidence” of UNRWA-Hamas ties. These claims are easily disproven by publicly available information. Ultimately, these reports serve to shield UNRWA from scrutiny.
NBC News reported that the entire Gaza Strip was still at risk of starvation despite the IPC's own reports and the recent United Nations' acknowledgment that 100% of food needs in Gaza have been met.
Stories of the abuse of Israeli hostages continue emerging, Iran's interference in Iraqi elections grows, and Israel and India to ink a major defense deal. Plus: as the horrors in Sudan finally start making the headlines, we recall another time the world overlooked atrocities elsewhere to fixate on the Jewish state.
The UN’s latest “genocide” report recycles disproven claims about the percentage of those killed in Gaza who are civilians, a lie used to buttress their accusation. By citing the Guardian’s farcical statistic while erasing Hamas’s atrocities, the Commission’s report represents propaganda dressed up as law.
A non-exhaustive list of 15 major lies made or uncritically amplified by CNN's Catherine Nicholls in her coverage of a UN commission's "genocide" report.
BBC coverage of the IPC Gaza famine report leaned heavily on UN and NGO claims while failing to provide critical context. Five separate reports repeated unverified Hamas figures, ignored Israeli statements, and failed to address issues such as aid theft, black-market profiteering, or UN distribution failures.
If the data shows that getting food into Gaza isn’t the problem, then what is? While its policies on aid delivery are open to fair criticism, attempts to portray Israel as solely at fault for hunger in Gaza conflict with reality and do little to actually remedy the situation.
Where is the line between journalism and propaganda? Reuters blurs it in its June 10 article, “Israel commits 'extermination' in Gaza by killing in schools, UN experts say,” by Francois Murphy, which uncritically amplifies the United Nations’s Commission of Inquiry’s (COI) flawed and biased claims of Israeli war crimes.
Which armed terror operative does the United Nations mischaracterize as a civilian? All of them. Every single senior Hamas terror leader, Islamic Jihad gunman, and Aqsa Martyrs Brigades IED thrower killed in action since 2008.
Merriam-Webster defines the term “kangaroo court” as “a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.” There is no more apt term for the United Nations’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) against Israel, which has long dispensed with any pretense of being fair, impartial, or objective. So why did CNN’s Niamh Kennedy and Muhammad Darwish treat the COI as if its conclusions carried any respectability?
