The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Friday, April 17, 2026
Hungary appears to be friendly still. Ireland finds new ways to outrage. And a terror-linked NGO refuses to comply with Israel's registration requirement.
The Gaza Fixation: NPR’s Silence on Sudan
The hosts of NPR podcast Code Switch searched for sociological explanations in their quest to understand why so much attention was paid in Gaza but so little to Sudan. Those who have recognized the media's hyper-fixation on the conflict in Gaza could have answered the question in four words: No Jews, no news.
The Guardian normalizes extremist Hasan Piker
Once again, the Guardian has demonstrated that there’s no Jew-hating, pro-terror, anti-Western agitator that editors aren’t willing to normalize.
The road to Bondi Beach: Times gives pro-Palestinian extremists a pass
The Times (London) did a profound disservice to readers and the Jewish community by whitewashing the role played by anti-Zionist extremists in fueling Jew-hatred in Australia leading up to the Bondi Beach massacre.
KCPQ-TV, Fox’s Seattle Affiliate, Inflates Gaza Death Toll By Hundreds of Thousands
KCPQ reporter Matthew Smith, of Fox News' Seattle affiliate, egregiously inflated the Palestinian death toll during the Israel-Hamas war as "hundreds of thousands.” He also failed to challenge an activist's genocide libel and grotesque invention that "nearly half" the population was "wiped out."
Video: The other side of Ms. Rachel
Ms. Rachel has had a lot of explaining to do recently. But these aren't simple accidents. The children's entertainer is showing exactly who she is, and it's not good for anyone.
More unhelpful ceasefire violation coverage from BBC News
BBC reporting since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025 has focused primarily on Israeli responses but has failed to adequately inform on the topic of the terrorist targets of such strikes. Near-daily ceasefire violations by terrorist organizations have for the most part been ignored. Unconfirmed claims sourced from Hamas-run agencies have been uncritically amplified, along with the “both sides” narrative concerning ceasefire violations.
El País Post-Oct. 7: From Structural Bias to Militant Activism
CAMERA Español's critical review of El País coverage since Oct. 7 reveals that the problem with the paper runs far deeper than what was corrected under pressure.
BBC Holocaust Memorial Day coverage universalizes Jewish suffering
The idea that Jews are collectively responsible for the actions of Israel, or that Jews are ultimately responsible for bigotry that they experience, is not a position the BBC should be lending its considerable credibility to, on any day, let alone on Holocaust Memorial Day.
SOAS Antizionist Professor Helps The New York Times Subtly Advance the Genocide Libel
NYT Magazine subtly presented the genocide libel to its readers through a series of omissions, including the failure to divulge to readers that its "genocide expert" was an antizionist professor who justified the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023.