One day after the publication of yet another detailed study identifying serious flaws and anomalies in Hamas-supplied figures for fatalities incurred in Israel's Gaza Strip offensive, AP ran a headline and article which cited the terror organization's disputed and highly questionable figures as fact without even providing attribution.
Reuters' blatantly false and uncorrected claim that Israel carpet-bombed Beirut's southern suburbs was just one of several recent assaults against the media outlet’s stated commitment to “unbiased and reliable news.”
The Associated Press says it advances the power of facts, CAMERA writes in the Algemeiner. However, the news service's refusal to report pro-Hamas incitement and cloaking support for the terror organization's Oct. 7 attack as "anti-war" protest is the latest instance of AP diminishing the power of facts.
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal corrects an Oct. 26 photo caption which had erased the Hebrew message on a Tehran billboard stating: "Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth and that is just the beginning of the story."
"Advancing the power of facts" is AP's promise and concealing troubling questions about due process in the horrific execution of Arvin Ghahremani is the reality.
The so-called "right of return" has been a fundamental Palestinian demand ever since the initial effort to eliminate the nascent state of Israel failed 76 years ago, but now AP has upgraded the unfulfilled aspiration into international law.
The IDF said over 450 UNRWA staffers are military operatives in terror organizations. Israel's Foreign Ministry said more than 2000 UNRWA employees belong to terror groups. But Reuters said Israel cited "a few."
In the LA Times, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen castigates the alleged sins of the American Jewish community for "indiscriminately support[ing] the state of Israel, even though in January the International Court of Justice found it plausible that the Israeli government was committing genocide." In fact, that the ICJ in no way determined that Israel is plausibly committing genocide.
In a news analysis passed off as news, Bloomberg argues that Iran had no choice but to respond to "sustained Israeli escalation," ignoring the escalation of Iranian proxies and Iran's genocidal nuclear aspirations to wipe Israel off the map.