The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Monday, June 22, 2026
U.S. media outlets ignore significant stories about UN rapporteurs and about UNRWA's latest scandal.
Francesca Albanese
CAMERA Op-Ed: Kristof and the Self-Sabotaging World of Journalism
Trust in journalism is at an all-time low because journalists are debasing their own noble profession, CAMERA's David Litman writes at JNS. Journalists should be the first to challenge the dishonesty in Nicholas Kristof's piece alleging systemic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.
Hezbollah Escorts NPR in Lebanon
NPR surveyed the damage in southern Lebanon while escorted by a Hezbollah propagandist. Its report ignored Hezbollah's human shield strategy, attacks on Israel and how the terror group's tactics mirror those of Hamas.
British Vogue lauds terror defender and rape denier, Francesca Albanese
Though the headline of a Francesca Albanese profile published at British Vogue, “Francesca Albanese Wants The World To Wake Up”, is a reference to her new book’s 'insight' into injustices against Palestinians, her long record of hateful rhetoric suggests what she wants “the world to wake up” to is the threat posed by Jews.
El País Post-Oct. 7: From Structural Bias to Militant Activism
CAMERA Español's critical review of El País coverage since Oct. 7 reveals that the problem with the paper runs far deeper than what was corrected under pressure.
NY Times Gushes Over, And Resembles, UN Extremist Francesca Albanese
The New York Times’ glowing profile of Francesca Albanese, a UN official who has trafficked in antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories, recasts an extremist as an “optimist,” transforming a dark record into light and journalism into hagiography.
AP Polishes Resume for Hateful Rapporteur
Yesterday’s Associated Press story about UN-appointed rapporteur Francesca Albanese doesn’t list an author. But the piece might as well have been written by Albanese herself.
Rapporteurs Without Principles: Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, bangs the table as she misrepresents the facts.
Fifty-Two UN “Experts” and Seven Major Lies
Fifty-two UN experts either didn’t bother to fact check their own statement or had no qualms about spreading lies about the Jewish state in order to accuse it of all manner of evils.
Tracing the Dubious Allegations of Sexual Violence Made Against Israeli Forces
The only source for the allegations of sexual violence by Israeli forces that several United Nations "experts" were willing to point to was a public report by an organization called Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC). Given that this is all the public has to go on to scrutinize the allegations, it is worth examining WCLAC’s report.
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