Following communication from CAMERA, CNN cosmetically tweaked its report on the E1 settlement plan, leaving its core falsehood intact: that new construction would sever the West Bank and render a contiguous Palestinian state "virtually impossible." CAMERA breaks down why boundaries, infrastructure, and the map itself tell a different story.
CNN cited the Reporters Without Borders index to illustrate a decline in Israeli press freedom. But why is Israel ranked lower than Qatar and even Western Sahara on the Reporters Without Borders Index?
Through a seemingly minor correction following CAMERA's communication, CNN acknowledged that the legal status of West Bank settlements is a matter of debate among international law experts and not an absolute, indisputable fact.
What do CNN and the British Museum have in common? Under the guise that ancient history belongs to everyone, both use a site's long history of foreign invasion as an excuse to erase the original indigenous people who built it.
A recent CNN report on a joint Israeli Palestinian memorial event omitted the crucial fact that one of the eulogized Palestinian casualties was an armed member of a designated terrorist organization killed in a clash with Israeli forces.
There may be many legitimate reasons to criticize the Israeli Cabinet decisions. But there are also legitimate reasons to support those decisions – reasons media outlets like CNN and the New York Times omitted. Media consumers deserve the facts and the context, not journalists deciding for them what to think.
U.S. media outlets repeatedly push claims that Israel has provided “no evidence” of UNRWA-Hamas ties. These claims are easily disproven by publicly available information. Ultimately, these reports serve to shield UNRWA from scrutiny.
CNN is failing to wrestle with the contradictions in its own reporting. Are Hamas’s figures reliable or worthless? Both can't be true, even if CNN's reporting implies as much.
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.
