A CAMERA Espanol study of EFE's post-Oct. 7 coverage finds anti-Israel libels -- from organ harvesting, to snipers targeting infants and the bombing of the Minab girls' school in Iran -- levelling up as supposedly legitimate news. Meanwhile, Hamas and Hezbollah violence melts away as episodic or nonexistent background noise.
Abusing journalism's sacred quotation marks, media outlets falsely depict Itamar Ben-Gvir's call for the killing of tens of terrorists daily into a call for the killing of tens of "people," "Gazans" or "Palestinians." No, the terms aren't interchangeable, and no, reporters aren't free to select other people's words at will.
After finding a home with fringe figures Hasan Piker and Owen Jones, the conspiracy theory according to which Israel and the U.S. engineered the mass infiltration of Moroccans into the Spanish autonomous cities washed up in Spain's El Periódico.
Spanish media and public discourse displayed far more interest in the Israeli minister’s faraway humiliation of the group than in the Basque police’s home-court violent welcome for the same activists, CAMERA Español's Masha Gabriel writes in JNS.
Israel's participation in Eurovision "endangered" the 16,000 fans inside the arena, El Periódico, a leading Spanish newspaper, alleged in an egregious anti-Zionist screed which also alleged that the Israeli government for initiating Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians.
Two articles by influential Spanish news agency EFE articles published four months apart reveal with striking clarity a double standard in the news agency's coverage of Palestinian suffering versus Israeli suffering.
With pretentious and obscure rhetoric, Spain's ABC dresses up anti-Western sentiment and Jew-hatred as "culture." Martín-Miguel Rubio Esteban draws from an ancient religious hatred to whip up a more modern nationalistic bigotry.
EFE's and RTVE's preoccupation with defending themselves against false accusations of passing off old Kabul images as current scenes from Iran detracted from justified criticism of instances in which the mainstream Spanish news outlets provided less than rigorous reporting.
CAMERA Español's critical review of El País coverage since Oct. 7 reveals that the problem with the paper runs far deeper than what was corrected under pressure.
The repeated association of “the Jews” with suspicion, violence or collective guilt suggests an editorial pattern, not technical mistakes. In the latest blunder, El País falsely links Barcelona's targeted Jewish community to Gaza "genocide."
