The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Friday, February 6, 2026

By: Jennifer Kouzi February 6, 2026

Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.

Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.

Provided below are three important, but underreported, stories from the week bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know.

1) Antisemitism at Qarnegie Mellon University

On Jan. 6, 2026, a Pennsylvania federal district court unsealed court documents in a lawsuit by Yael Canaan, described by the court as a “Jewish-American of Israeli descent,” who alleged a campus culture of antisemitism and campaign of antisemitic abuse by faculty and administration at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Interim rulings issued on Dec. 17, 2024 and Dec. 5, 2025 by Judge W. Scott Hardy in Canaan v. Carnegie Mellon University revealed not only shocking allegations by Canaan, but Qatar’s probable influence over how the school handles complaints of antisemitism at the Pittsburgh campus. A Jan. 28, 2026, op-ed by Kenneth L. Marcus at the Wall Street Journal referenced the case in, “Does Qatar Fund Antisemitism at American Campuses?” Over 70 pages of unsealed decisions suggest the answer is a resounding “yes.”

The disgusting conduct Canaan endured should be read in full. In a prominent example, an architecture professor told Canaan the eruv (a small wire boundary extending private domains in religious Jewish communities) she included in a model she designed “looked like the wall Israelis use to barricade Palestinians out of Israel.”  The professor added that Canaan’s time spent on the project “would have been better spent if [Canaan] had instead explored ‘what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.’” Months after filing a complaint, Canaan received no apology from the professor. Instead, she was subjected to further harassment by this professor and retaliation by the professor’s colleagues. The administration was patently unhelpful.

Canaan’s filings point not only to Qatar’s harboring of anti-Jewish terrorists, but critically for purposes of the lawsuit, to the vast sums of money the country funneled to CMU – over one billion dollars according to the Education Department. Judge Hardy found this was likely a source of antisemitic influence on CMU and that a reasonable juror could infer the university was capitulating to Qatar’s antisemitic sway given the scale of the financial contributions.

Additionally, Judge Hardy concluded that Qatar’s control over some of CMU’s hiring and its contribution to salaries, including that of the assistant vice provost for DEI and Title XI coordinator (Elizabeth Rosemeyer) who is charged with, among other things, deciding whether to dismiss or investigate formal discrimination complaints, “make it more probable that CMU’s relationship with Qatar may have influenced . . . how [CMU] handles complaints lodged by students concerning antisemitism . . .”

The story of Qatari funding in American higher education has been woefully underreported in general, let alone its impact or influence on antisemitism on college campuses. Major outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post have been silent on this case, notwithstanding its revelations about Qatari influence in American higher education, a major story they have also consistently underreported.  

2) Australian Grand Mufti Signed Fatwa Encouraging Jihad against the “Zionist Entity” and those “Collaborating” Nine Months Before Bondi Beach Massacre

Only a few Jewish outlets, including The Jerusalem Post and Jewish Onliner, have covered the shocking revelation that nine months before the Bondi Beach Massacre, Australia’s Grand Mufti – the highest-ranking Muslim legal official in a country, appointed to issue fatwas (religious rulings) – signed a fatwa calling for jihad against Israel, Zionists, and their “collaborators.”

On Jan. 27, 2026, Jewish Onliner reported that Australia’s Grand Mufti, Dr. Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, personally signed a fatwa on March 28, 2025, saying it is “obligatory for all Muslims and Muslim nations to engage in jihad against the Zionist entity and all those collaborating with it.” The Grand Mutfi’s signature is third among fifteen signatories – “Members Participating in the Fatwa” – from the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an organization linked both to Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Fiqh and Fatwa Committee is responsible for issuing religious rulings, among which have called for violence against Zionists.

Egyptian-born Dr. Mohammed serves as the country’s Grand Mufti through the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), which has been critical of recent legislative efforts in Australia to combat antisemitism. 

The Jerusalem Post also reported ANIC co-signed a statement pressing the Australian authorities to refuse entry to the country for Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Associated Press have all reported on Australia’s gun and hate speech legislation, yet none have reported on a violent fatwa that threatens not only the members of the eighth largest Jewish community in the world numbering approximately 117,000, but Jews worldwide. The Australian Jewish community is considered strongly Zionist. However, the Australian Online Hate Prevention Institute has explored the issue of “Zionist” as an antisemitic code word for Jew.

The Australian fatwa threatens Jewish physical safety in Australia and all over the world, yet the mainstream media has been silent. One wonders if a fear of being labeled Islamophobic or simply a lack of curiosity has prevented the media from doing its job and investigating serious and life-threatening levels of Jew-hatred.

3) IDF Has Eliminated Noa Marciano’s Terrorist Killer in Response to Hamas Ceasefire Violation

The IDF has demonstrated in recent days that it has no shortage of targets remaining in Gaza as it continues to eliminate terrorists in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas.

Readers may recall that CAMERA wrote about Corporal Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old soldier abducted alive from the Nahal Oz outpost on Oct. 7, 2023. Her body was found by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Nov. 2023, and in Dec. 2025, her father, Avi, shared publicly how she was brutally killed by a medical professional while in Shifa Hospital.

On Feb. 4, 2026, the IDF announced it had eliminated her murderer and head of a Hamas terror cell, Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, in response to what the IDF called a “blatant ceasefire violation.” 

The New York Times briefly included the news in a piece entitled “Israel Launches Deadly Strikes on Gaza, Saying Militants Attacked Its Soldiers,” while Fox News centered the event in its headline, “Hamas terrorist who murdered IDF soldier Noa Marciano eliminated in Gaza.” NBC News buried the update, writing a total of one sentence about it in a lengthy article about Palestinian casualties. Otherwise, coverage was limited to Jewish or Israeli news outlets.

The lack of news coverage on the IDF’s strike on Marciano’s murderer is unsurprising, as western media largely continues to focus predominantly on Gazan casualties and less on the IDF making good on its promise to neutralize all terrorists involved in the Oct. 7 massacre and the holding – and killing – of hostages thereafter.

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