Lebanon Wars

BACKGROUNDER: Hezbollah’s Media Weapon

Over the past six years, Hezbollah's use of the media against Israel has intensified. In addition to Al Manar television, the organization's official propaganda instrument, Hezbollah utilizes other Arab news stations and even the international press. CAMERA describes how Hezbollah has employed the media to convey its message to the world.

ITV News report on Lebanon abandons even the pretense of journalism

By ignoring Hezbollah’s likely role in the incident they reported, while failing to provide viewers with the Israel’s response to the incendiary accusation that that the army intentionally struck a hospital, ITV News violated the Accuracy clause of the UK's broadcast media regulator.

Sky News fails to challenge pro-Hamas guest

Sky News presenter Yalda Hakim interviewed Jeremy Scahill, a “journalist” with Drop Site News, known for promoting pro-Hamas and pro-Iranian regime propaganda, and failed to challenge any of his extremist views.

The Guardian’s post-Oct. 7 coverage in one image

A propagandistic Guardian cartoon about destruction in Lebanon and Gaza erases terror groups entirely, and is a perfect illustration of the outlet's myopic coverage of the war which began when Hamas carried out their barbaric pogrom on Oct. 7.

NPR Hides Hezbollah Tactics by Luxury-Washing

NPR carefully avoids placing an iota of responsibility for the damage to southern Lebanon on Hezbollah. In a recent story designed to make it appear as if Israel was destroying homes for no reason, one man NPR interviewed told listeners that nice houses don't house weapons.

BBC News framing of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire continues

Remarkably, Torbey – who only utters the word Hezbollah once in her entire report – has nothing to tell BBC audiences about the terrorist organization’s rejection of Lebanon’s direct negotiations with Israel or the threats toward the Lebanese president and government from Hezbollah officials that have been voiced both before and since the ceasefire came into effect.

The Times calls slain terrorist a civilian ‘medic’

Writing in The Times, Beirut-based Sally Hayden seemed to go out of her way to avoid the topic of Hezbollah fighters killed in the war. One man mentioned by name, described by Hayden only as a "paramedic," is actually identified as a "martyred jihad fighter" in the tombstone on the accompanying photo.