With the media misrepresentations falsely painting him as a victim of political persecution, Macklemore enjoys a bump in his status. Thanks to his sudden new fame, the former mid-tier rapper is now better positioned to spread hatred against Jews.
Imagine for a moment if a far-right U.S. filmmaker made an anti-black documentary with a variation of the “N”-word as the title, but without the “r” at the end, CAMERA's Adam Levick writes at JNS. The moral equivalent of such an obscene racist swipe, though aimed at another historically oppressed minority, was used in the title of a documentary produced by The Guardian newspaper.
The Associated Press and NPR framing of Israel as an isolated pariah or the Wall Street Journal's framing of the Jewish state as great and powerful reflects the anti-Jewish tropes that have been popularized through the ages.
As the Jewish Chronicle revealed last weekend – based on CAMERA’s research – a BBC Arabic segment about cultural life in Gaza featured two contributors who have expressed antisemitic and pro-violence views on their social media accounts. Yet, their hateful views weren't challenged or revealed - in violation of BBC Arabic's own editorial standards.
In a single CNN broadcast, Christiane Amanpour permitted guests to accuse the "Zionist government" of executing a "final solution," ignored extensive evidence of Hamas operating in the exact hospitals where her doctor guests volunteered, and concealed critical source biases.
Spanish media has contributed greatly to the hostile climate with coverage of the conflict and global geopolitics that demonizes the Jewish state and normalizes the hatred of Jews and Israel, CAMERA's Marcelo Wio writes in JNS.
The Guardian shouldn’t be seen as a respectable media outlet or simply one that is “far left,” CAMERA's Adam Levick writes in JNS. Rather, it's an propaganda organ that fuels antisemitism in the United Kingdom.
Have you read about: Michigan's history of political antisemitic harassment and intimidation; more proof that the Gaza famine never was; and Ireland's flying blind hatred of Jews?
