After last week’s “Jew hunt” in Amsterdam, anti-Israel activists rushed to excuse the brutal assaults. If Israelis and Jews across the city were beaten down and kicked while lying defenseless and unconscious, the focus, they insisted, should be on Jewish behavior. The media soon joined in.
Although United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 calls for the disarming of Hezbollah through Lebanon, the New York Times misinforms readers by citing only the part of the resolution calling on the terror group to evacuate southern Lebanon.
Anti-Israel terror groups reliably have their apologists. And so doubts have been raised about whether Nasrallah really made two antisemitic statements. He did.
Some do a better job at informing readers of Nasrallah’s reign of terror and destruction, others do worse, but few are as egregiously distorted as CNN's obituary.
Iran and its proxies are likely to appreciate a New York Times report on Iran and its proxies, since it embraces the language of the terrorists axis of resistance.
But they are also aimed at history. If factual news reports on the pager and walkie-talkie attacks are the first rough draft of history, then revisionism by less scrupulous journalists are a malicious attempt at a second draft.
One allegation. One U.N. investigation into the allegation. But when the allegation goes into the magician’s hat, an altogether separate investigation gets pulled out. It might not be magic. But it’s certainly not journalism of the “highest possible standards.”
When Hamas halved its casualty figures following an Israeli strike on three of its senior leaders most major media outlets followed suit. But CBS News chose to leave readers in the dark.
