Post-Oct. 7, one would have at least hoped that there would be some soul-searching among supporters of the Palestinian cause and a reaction along the lines of “this is not how we imagined Palestinian resistance” or a “not in my name” campaign. However, neither distancing nor clarity was to be, CAMERA's Adam Levick writes in JNS.
Financial Times editors upheld a complaint from CAMERA, and amended an article falsely claiming that “Almost all buildings in Gaza have been destroyed by two years of Israeli bombardment."
From the Committee to Protect Journalists to the news outlets sympathetically covering them (with senior journalists on their board), Hamas terrorists have been misrepresented as journalists.
One certainly wonders whether anyone within the FT editorial chain of command so much as raised an eyebrow at Ghattas’ legitimization of the absurd propaganda of the proscribed Islamist terror group.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad reveals more of their operatives killed during the Israel-Hamas war were labeled "journalists." Volkswagen is in negotiations with Israeli defense firm Rafael to produce Iron Dome components in Germany. Two Israelis go viral for their dark humor, "begging" the Iranian regime not to bomb the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station.
For all the FT’s putative sophistication, it continues to get drawn-in to Tucker Carlson-style narratives evoking the "Israeli tail wagging the US dog" trope.
The Financial Times, according to its own Editorial Code, must distinguish between comment, conjecture, and fact. Yet two recent news articles grossly failed to do that, characterizing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as having "failed" as a matter of fact.
On Christmas day nearly every major news site reported the same story: Christmas in Bethlehem returns after two years of war. While naming Israel as the boogeyman, these reports brushed Islamist extremist violence against Christians under the rug despite reports of at least two attacks in the days before Christmas.