ABC failed to include in its reporting significant problems with the process used by the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Nor does the network appear to have covered the detailed BESA Center report debunking the genocide libel.
The Guardian and the Independent joined a campaign coordinated by pro-BDS NGO Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders that libels Israel as deliberately killing journalists. Relying on inflated, terror-linked casualty lists and copy-pasted NGO claims, their reporting amounted to churnalism: advocacy dressed up as journalism.
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.
NPR's Aug. 22 "Morning Edition" broadcast, "Famine confirmed in northern Gaza, says U.N.-backed panel," is a confirmed mess of chaotic misreporting about the widely panned IPC documents.
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.
The BBC uncritically amplified an IPC report declaring famine in Gaza City, despite its reliance on an unpublished phone survey, outdated figures, and questionable NGO sources. Israeli rebuttals highlighting these flaws were sidelined, while the BBC promoted voices with a long record of accusing Israel of “engineered starvation.”
Under the guise of "contextualized truth," The Los Angeles Times falsely casts children suffering from serious medical conditions as famine victims. By depriving themselves of the essential ingredients which nourish healthy journalism — seek truth and report it, minimize harm and act independently — LA Times writers have devolved into ghoulish shadows of functioning journalists.
AFP captions accompanying a dozen portraits of Mariam Dawwas report without challenge the mother's claim that the 9-year-old "had no known illness." Independent journalist David Collier outperforms the "leading global news agency," revealing the malnourished girl suffers from intestinal malabsorption.
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.
BBC framed a “major escalation” without noting Hamas’s military presence or its fifty hostages. That omission hides the key fact: Palestinian misery could end if Hamas freed them.
