The Guardian’s “83% civilian” claim depends on the bizarre premise that if a Palestinian killed in Gaza is not marked as dead on a particular IDF list of named terrorists, they are necessarily a civilian. Ignoring thousands of unnamed fighters killed and omitting key context, the paper spun Hamas propaganda as fact.
Norman Finkelstein said that the October 7 attack "warmed every fiber of his soul" and that Gaza was a "concentration camp" before that day. But the problem with the "open-air prison" narrative is that it's just not true.
For nearly two years, Haaretz has amplified the false claim that Israel is “starving” Gaza, relying on a long-time anti-Israel activist and misleading images of sick children whose conditions had nothing to do with hunger. UN data and multiple expert reviews have repeatedly shown no famine exists. Yet the campaign continues.
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
An ITV News video report on Gaza by international editor Emma Murphy erased Hamas from the story, framing the destruction solely as “the war that Israel is waging here.” Viewers were not told about Hamas’s use of civilian buildings for military purposes, its booby-trapping of structures, or the Oct. 7 massacre that started the war.
Propagandistic headlines of the past week that exaggerate suffering and put the blame only on one side have most likely served only to prolong the war, along with the misery on both sides.
This second serving of Bartov in the New York Times was likely meant to promote his extreme anti-Israel narratives. And with its platform, the paper may have succeeded. But it came with a hidden cost.
Has Israel destroyed the entire global legal order? That’s the grave charge leveled in Suzy Hansen’s New York Magazine essay, “Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.” To make her case, Hansen must resort to falsehoods and half-truths.
