On the anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, Spain’s public broadcaster chose to highlight not the massacre itself but an accusation of “genocide” against the people who had been attacked.
The latest Albanese antisemitism-related fiasco is pertinent information regarding a figure whom the media have spent years presenting as an Israel expert – someone whose every utterance many journalists deem newsworthy, CAMERA Español’s Masha Gabriel writes in The Jerusalem Post.
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.
