ABC should have been prepared for anti-Zionist Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rehearsed answers about Israel. Instead, the network let Mamdani's false definition of Jewishness and misstatements about Israel go unchallenged.
On ABC's The View, Charlamagne tha God reverted back to old antisemitic tropes he had espoused before. The audience applauded and the hosts said nothing.
In an interview with a former Lebanese diplomat and presidential candidate Tracy Chamoun, NPR allowed omissions and lies to guide the conversation. The lack of pushback enabled the promotion of Hezbollah propaganda and revisionist history.
NBC recast pro-terror politician Darializa Avila Chevalier as a "vocal critic of Israel." In reality, she is a co-founder of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an organization that fully supports "Palestinian resistance." As an alumna, she helped organize the Columbia encampments, blocked police from entering Hamilton Hall when protestors commandeered it, and refused to condemn Hamas or their acts on October 7.
CNBC interviewed Palestinian diplomat Husam Zomlot. The hosts deserve credit for pushing back on many of Zomlot's outrageous statements, but there was still a lot that went unaddressed.
ABC News invited two Iranian regime apologists to discuss Iran and Lebanon. The host failed to challenge even one word of their analyses, leaving viewers with a distorted view of how the Middle East functions.
Hamas has retaken hospitals and schools and is using them to torture Gazans. Diplomatic relations between Israel and Brazil are strained. Israeli film director, critical of the Israeli government, is boycotted from a French film festival.
NPR added to its repertoire of soft or sympathetic interviews of perpetrators, leaders and supporters of Palestinian terror in its recent interview with Mahmoud Khalil. Structured to garner sympathy, NPR never asked him about the speech he claims he has been targeted for or why he has repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas.
Students for Justice in Palestine supports the killing of American Jews. Passengers from Tel Aviv en route to Slovenia were forced to divert to Croatia. New Israeli defense technology emerges to defend against drones.
