On Christmas day nearly every major news site reported the same story: Christmas in Bethlehem returns after two years of war. While naming Israel as the boogeyman, these reports brushed Islamist extremist violence against Christians under the rug despite reports of at least two attacks in the days before Christmas.
It should raise eyebrows that 15 CNN journalists could not find space in a 1,000+ word article to address two obvious questions about Israel's strike on Hamas terrorists in Qatar.
In issuing praise for Anas al-Sharif, entities like CNN and the Foreign Press Association have unwittingly exposed something about themselves: that they see nothing wrong with feeding the world an image of events in Gaza curated by a known Hamas propagandist.
In its coverage of recent events in Suwayda, Syria, CNN lends credence to the phrase “no Jews, no news” — the perception that some Western media outlets only highlight atrocities in the Middle East when they can link them to Israel.
