A non-exhaustive list of 15 major lies made or uncritically amplified by CNN's Catherine Nicholls in her coverage of a UN commission's "genocide" report.
BBC coverage of the IPC Gaza famine report leaned heavily on UN and NGO claims while failing to provide critical context. Five separate reports repeated unverified Hamas figures, ignored Israeli statements, and failed to address issues such as aid theft, black-market profiteering, or UN distribution failures.
If the data shows that getting food into Gaza isn’t the problem, then what is? While its policies on aid delivery are open to fair criticism, attempts to portray Israel as solely at fault for hunger in Gaza conflict with reality and do little to actually remedy the situation.
Where is the line between journalism and propaganda? Reuters blurs it in its June 10 article, “Israel commits 'extermination' in Gaza by killing in schools, UN experts say,” by Francois Murphy, which uncritically amplifies the United Nations’s Commission of Inquiry’s (COI) flawed and biased claims of Israeli war crimes.
Which armed terror operative does the United Nations mischaracterize as a civilian? All of them. Every single senior Hamas terror leader, Islamic Jihad gunman, and Aqsa Martyrs Brigades IED thrower killed in action since 2008.
Merriam-Webster defines the term “kangaroo court” as “a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.” There is no more apt term for the United Nations’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) against Israel, which has long dispensed with any pretense of being fair, impartial, or objective. So why did CNN’s Niamh Kennedy and Muhammad Darwish treat the COI as if its conclusions carried any respectability?
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, bangs the table as she misrepresents the facts.
Fifty-two UN experts either didn’t bother to fact check their own statement or had no qualms about spreading lies about the Jewish state in order to accuse it of all manner of evils.
The only source for the allegations of sexual violence by Israeli forces that several United Nations "experts" were willing to point to was a public report by an organization called Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC). Given that this is all the public has to go on to scrutinize the allegations, it is worth examining WCLAC’s report.
CNN bewilderingly decided to amplify an antisemite’s horrific allegations against the Jewish state, notwithstanding they lacked any supporting evidence, and without mentioning her extraordinary bias on the subject.