It’s extremely dispiriting that, with all Max Hastings’ erudition, he nonetheless succumbed to mind-numbingly banal cliches and ahistorical arguments about the root cause of violence and instability in the Middle East.
It’s horribly dispiriting – particularly given the tsunami of antisemitism in Britain since the Oct. 7 massacre – that Telegraph editors not only allowed such a toxic trope to be published, but actually defended it.
Sadly for Channel 4 News viewers, Cathy Newman not only failed to cross-examine or shame Dalton like she tried to do with Jordan Peterson, but treated him with kid gloves, thereby legitimizing the former ambassador’s diatribe about the West that was akin to what you’d expect to hear on Iran’s Press TV.
For all the FT’s putative sophistication, it continues to get drawn-in to Tucker Carlson-style narratives evoking the "Israeli tail wagging the US dog" trope.
The BBC's Sarah Montague advances the canard that the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is all “Palestinian territory” and takes a thinly veiled swipe at diaspora Jews who make aliyah and choose to live there.
How a piece advancing the conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, based on zero evidence, got past Times of London editors represents more evidence that, when it comes to Israel, their reporters are not held accountable for egregious breaches of basic journalistic standards.
The Times (London) did a profound disservice to readers and the Jewish community by whitewashing the role played by anti-Zionist extremists in fueling Jew-hatred in Australia leading up to the Bondi Beach massacre.
The Guardian's two Allied cemetery stories represent an apt illustration of the outlet’s broader post-Oct. 7 coverage: providing succor for the Palestinian perpetrators of the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust while doubling down on their hatred of the victims.
The damage to Israel and the global Jewish community by the Guardian's propagandistic – and, at times, simply cruel – re-writing of one of the most barbaric massacres of Jews in history into a story in which Jews are the perpetrators, while the terrorist mass murderers and their moral supporters in the pro-Palestinian movement escape opprobrium – is all too real, and, as we’ve demonstrated, is only getting worse.
In Graham-Harris’ Guardian-style narrative, only Israelis are the “extremists” and peace “obstructionists,” not Hamas, whose refusal to disarm is intentionally obfuscated by the writer’s use of passive language.
