Less than 12 hours after the FlyDubai plane landed in Saudi Arabia, pundits began speculating how the plane hijacking attempt could benefit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli elections. The immediate pivot to electoral consequences stripped the humanity from the 180 passengers, most of them Israelis, who had just narrowly escaped death.
CAMERA prompts corrections in two Wall Street Journal articles which erroneously stated that the Rafah crossing has been “closed completely” since March 2024. The crossing was open for medical evacuations in early 2025, after it had been closed since May 2024.
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.
