The European Journal of International Law proclaims a “commitment to publishing…a diverse range of contributors.” Will it allow a handful of loud, partisan activists to intimidate it into compromising on its own ideals?
Without being privy to CNN’s internal decision-making, one can only guess what factors drive its coverage of the region, and why the one Jewish state is placed under the microscope in a way that no other state is. But it seems fair to say that the content and makeup of its Middle East page isn’t being driven by genuine journalistic motivations.
CNN’s obsessive and slanted reporting continues to leave its audience without important information necessary to understand events. Notably, the omissions all work to downplay and omit the terrorism and violence being waged against Israel, instead highlighting only the decontextualized responses of the Israeli Defense Forces.
Ali Velshi spent much of his Sunday morning weaving a narrative of an evil Jewish state, threading together outright lies with material omissions to tell his false tale of a brutal, undemocratic apartheid state.
They’ve developed a theory, and that theory conveniently means evidence and arguments to the contrary are to be silenced. But more importantly, that theory means the very Jews to be studied must also be silenced.
Of the 40 articles featured on CNN's "Middle East" section in July, 27 focused on Israel. Just five focused on Iran, and only two on Iraq. Put another way, CNN wrote more articles (15) just on Israel’s judicial reform debates than it did on the rest of the region combined (13).
CNN has a shaky relationship with polling data. Previously, Christiane Amanpour appears to have fabricated polling results. On July 14, however, CNN’s Abeer Salman took a slightly different track by using existing polling data, but only some of it.
According to many recent flawed news accounts, the “flare-up” in violence began only with the introduction of a new Israeli government and has been driven by extremist Israelis. The data, however, disagrees. Not only did the “flare-up” begin long before the current government took power in November 2022, but it has been overwhelmingly driven by Palestinian attacks.
Those old enough will remember that during a 2002 IDF operation in Jenin, Palestinian officials, aided by United Nations officials and international media coverage, spread one of the most notorious libels against the IDF: that of the “Jenin Massacre.” With that history in mind, here are five important details you may have missed in the media’s coverage of the events in Jenin this time around.
In March, CAMERA helped expose a wildly inaccurate and offensive display at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Now CAMERA responds to even more false allegations and proposes a constructive path forward.
