Days after Oct. 7th, 2023, the Guardian began centering the story on the putatively "disproportionate" Israeli military response to the Hamas massacre, rather than on the genocidal terror group’s mass murder, sexual violence, torture and mutilation itself.
Matthew Cassel’s Guardian film, “‘Our Genocide’,” is an egregious example of a propagandist—under the guise of journalism—telling readers exactly what they want to hear about Israel’s putative villainy.
The UN’s latest “genocide” report recycles disproven claims about the percentage of those killed in Gaza who are civilians, a lie used to buttress their accusation. By citing the Guardian’s farcical statistic while erasing Hamas’s atrocities, the Commission’s report represents propaganda dressed up as law.
The Guardian and the Independent joined a campaign coordinated by pro-BDS NGO Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders that libels Israel as deliberately killing journalists. Relying on inflated, terror-linked casualty lists and copy-pasted NGO claims, their reporting amounted to churnalism: advocacy dressed up as journalism.
The Guardian’s “83% civilian” claim depends on the bizarre premise that if a Palestinian killed in Gaza is not marked as dead on a particular IDF list of named terrorists, they are necessarily a civilian. Ignoring thousands of unnamed fighters killed and omitting key context, the paper spun Hamas propaganda as fact.
A Channel 4 presenter echoed a Hamas conspiracy theory that Israel and the US set up fake food aid to kill Palestinians—propaganda more at home on Iranian state TV than a British public broadcaster.
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
An ITV News video report on Gaza by international editor Emma Murphy erased Hamas from the story, framing the destruction solely as “the war that Israel is waging here.” Viewers were not told about Hamas’s use of civilian buildings for military purposes, its booby-trapping of structures, or the Oct. 7 massacre that started the war.
The images of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, and the plight of the rest of the hostages cruelly held by their terrorist captors for 668 days, have not gone viral. Instead, much of the media have self-conscripted themselves to a disinformation campaign that serves the interests of a Palestinian movement that’s not only pathologically hostile to Jews, but to the West as well.
