CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and The Guardian treated Saleh al-Jafarawi, "Mr. Fafo," as a legitimate journalist. If al-Jafarawi is a "journalist" in the same way their reporters are, then why should the public trust anything these outlets report?
Hamas in Gaza mirrors Hezbollah in Lebanon, and failed media coverage of the former mirrors failed media coverage of the latter. This flawed media coverage, ignoring Arab violations of the ceasefire and casting Israel as an unprovoked bully, is full of mirrors — none of them clarifying.
Matthew Cassel’s Guardian film, “‘Our Genocide’,” is an egregious example of a propagandist—under the guise of journalism—telling readers exactly what they want to hear about Israel’s putative villainy.
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.
The Guardian and the Independent joined a campaign coordinated by pro-BDS NGO Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders that libels Israel as deliberately killing journalists. Relying on inflated, terror-linked casualty lists and copy-pasted NGO claims, their reporting amounted to churnalism: advocacy dressed up as journalism.
The Guardian’s “83% civilian” claim depends on the bizarre premise that if a Palestinian killed in Gaza is not marked as dead on a particular IDF list of named terrorists, they are necessarily a civilian. Ignoring thousands of unnamed fighters killed and omitting key context, the paper spun Hamas propaganda as fact.
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
The images of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, and the plight of the rest of the hostages cruelly held by their terrorist captors for 668 days, have not gone viral. Instead, much of the media have self-conscripted themselves to a disinformation campaign that serves the interests of a Palestinian movement that’s not only pathologically hostile to Jews, but to the West as well.
Novelist Sally Rooney, a BDS supporter who refused to allow her novel to be translated into Hebrew, took to the pages of the Guardian to spread misinformation about the soon to be proscribed group Palestine Action.
After the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear sites, the Financial Times and Guardian pushed the toxic trope that Israel manipulated President Trump into war. Adam Levick exposes how this narrative revives antisemitic conspiracy theories under the guise of foreign policy analysis.
