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.
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.
Last week we noted Morning Edition’s featured guest promoted the genocide claim against Israel. This week, the same program turns to another featured guest to further fuel the genocide canard.
Just two days after the New York Times published an op-ed by Omer Bartov claiming that Israel was committing a genocide, NPR’s Morning Edition featured an interview with him to reiterate the same points.
If other scholars don’t agree with Bartov, perhaps it is because they recognize that Israel's calls to destroy Hamas are not evidence of genocidal intent.
The 10,000-word feature called "Crimes of the Century" by Suzy Hansen is not investigative journalism; it’s agitprop that fits right into Hamas’ campaign to vilify the Jewish state as genocidal and guilty of shattering the entire global legal order. Filled with factual errors, distortions and misrepresentations, the piece projects Hamas’ genocidal mission onto its victims.
The false accusation of genocide is made for one reason: to attempt to pressure Israel to end the war without removing Hamas from power, so that the terror organization can rebuild and attack Israel again, as it has pledged to do and as history shows it has a record of doing.
