Following the media's hyperfocus on the ICC’s 2024 request warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant, the press corps has gone quiet on the case's latest hiccups, including the suspension of chief prosecutor Karim Khan.
Haaretz global editor Noa Landau's caricature of American Evangelical Christians is heavy on gloating, strawman arguments and fabrications. Given both Evangelical and Israeli enthusiasm for the Abraham Accords, Landau's argument that the Judeo-Christian radical right is threatened by warming ties with Muslim nations gets a reality check.
Quality journalism requires curiosity, skepticism, and an appreciation for nuance. A good journalist would have cited thoughtful critics of the war, not Carlson, a racist kook whom most Americans, including Republicans, do not view favorably.
Instead of finding reasonable actors to treat the topic of the U.S.–Israeli relationship with a level of seriousness, Newsweek’s Jordan King went to social media, famously an arena of serious conversations and measured opinions.
A fleeting moment of rare clarity appeared in an Associated Press headline: "Netanyahu applauds UN adoption of Trump’s Gaza plan and Hamas rejects it." Undeterred, the New York Times still finds Israel to be the rejectionist party in the way of a diplomatic solution.
Defying the historical record and Reuters' own decades-long coverage, Crispian Balmer claims Netanyahu's "decades-long dream" was to convince the United States to attack Iran. In fact, for decades the Israeli Prime Minister called for a more stringent deal and sanctions, not a U.S. war on Iran.
CAMERA prompts an AFP correction after the wire service misreported that Netanyahu has opposed "any Palestinian governance in the Gaza Strip." In fact, the Israeli Prime Minister has called for "civilian administration run by Palestinians who do not seek to destroy Israel."
The flip side of widespread false reporting last May that Hamas accepted the ceasefire proposal on the table, ABC fabricates that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far rejected President Biden's plan.
CAMERA reviews a new memoir by Ari Harow, Netanyahu's former chief of staff, for the Washington Free Beacon and finds that Israel's war against Hamas in the summer of 2014 foreshadowed tactics that the terrorist group would employ in its war on the Jewish state in 2023-24.
