Associated Press' headline had stated as fact "Israel kills 34 people in Gaza," though the claim is unverified. The improved headline, appearing in dozens of media outlets, now qualifies with attribution, stating "health officials say." (Unmentioned, though, is the Hamas-affiliation of said officials.)
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.
The BBC’s latest report on Israel’s strike in Doha downplayed Qatar’s role as Hamas’ sponsor, omitting its financing of terrorism, hosting of Hamas leaders, and ties to Iran. Instead, readers were presented with partisan narratives while critical context on Hamas-Qatar collaboration was left out.
The BBC’s latest “Verify” report on proportionality in Israel’s war with Hamas leans heavily on experts whose records and affiliations were not disclosed to readers. Some of those cited have long histories of anti-Israel activism, including participation in Jeremy Corbyn’s “Gaza Tribunal.”
It should raise eyebrows that 15 CNN journalists could not find space in a 1,000+ word article to address two obvious questions about Israel's strike on Hamas terrorists in Qatar.
The BBC’s coverage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla amplified Hamas propaganda while concealing the PFLP-linked affiliations of its organizers and passengers. Omitting the naval blockade’s legality and the flotilla’s explicitly political aims, the BBC again left its audiences misinformed.
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.
