Fareed Zakaria

July 7, 2026

Israel’s armchair critics moralize from Aspen’s luxury resorts

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and former NSA Jake Sullivan's recent exchange displayed a stark disregard for the hardships of daily life in wartime Israel. After all, advocating for a flawed peace is easy when you never have to endure the catastrophic consequences of its collapse.
October 10, 2023

Testimony: Family and Witnesses Speak of Oct. 7 Horrors

Heartbreaking testimony by the family of victims and chilling eyewitness accounts of first responders document the pain and horror of the attacks on civilians. And they underscore the callousness of atrocity denial — including by former Palestinian Authority Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti, who told CNN viewers that Hamas didn't target civilians.
October 20, 2020

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Wrong on Shelved Annexation Plan, Settlement Construction

CNN's Fareed Zakaria falsely cited Benjamin Netanyahu's shelved "promise of annexation of the West Bank." But the prime minister's plan involved only Israeli settlements and the Jordan Valley, some 30 percent of the West Bank, not the disputed territory in its entirety. And, contrary to Zakaria's slip, no "new settlements" have been approved.
October 10, 2020

Fareed Zakaria’s Anti-Israel Bias Surfaces Again on CNN

Zakaria’s discussion of the current normalization of relations between Israel and Arab Gulf states unsurprisingly includes misleading claims and falsehoods. This is consistent with the CNN culture of bias against the Jewish state which has been documented by CAMERA.
April 3, 2019

CNN’s Anti-Israel Bias Surfaces Again

Fareed Zakaria hosted a “discussion” about the U.S. proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israeli territory. It took place on Zakaria's grandiosely named "Global Public Square" program.
August 18, 2014

Washington Post Corrects Another Fareed Zakaria Error

Fareed Zakaria blamed “Israel and the West” for postponing long overdue Palestinian elections. CAMERA obtained a correction to the Washington Post column, but the thinly spread media figure couldn't quite let it go at that …