Instead of equivocating on the target and source of the violence, the media should consider the role that the many false stories about Israel that have circulated since the start of the war have played in inciting such violence.
In two articles, the Journal creates an impression that Israel’s aggression in Gaza has caused hostility to Jews around the world, including Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky.
The false accusation of genocide is made for one reason: to attempt to pressure Israel to end the war without removing Hamas from power, so that the terror organization can rebuild and attack Israel again, as it has pledged to do and as history shows it has a record of doing.
The music magazine has improved its reporting on Gaza casualties, but its account of recent events at Columbia University quotes four anti-Israel students and no pro-Israel students.
As a music magazine, Rolling Stone has no obligation to cover these events at all. Yet it not only chooses to do so, it chooses to do it in a manner that misinforms and misleads its readers. This is the last of a three-part series.
Further sanitizing Hamas’s actions: This is the second of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
Creating a narrative, absolving Hamas: This is the first of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
