Israel is the primary obstacle to Palestinian unity, reports AFP, ignoring that Hamas is a terror organization. From Gaza's civilian casualties and food shortages in the north to the Temple Mount's status in Judaism, the wire service fails to safeguard its charter calling for accuracy and impartiality.
Hamas' targeting of Jewish civilians is part and parcel of its mission — as set out in its governing Covenant or Charter — to "fight the Jews and kill them and to replace Israel with an Islamic state. According to the Charter, any type of peace negotiation and diplomatic end to the conflict "stand in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement."
It's unacceptable that media reporting on fatalities incurred in Israeli military operations almost never note that the combatant to civilian ratio is 1:1 in Lebanon and 1:2 in the Gaza Strip, CAMERA's Shay Khatiri writes in JNS.
Despite extensive citation of the NGO in their coverage of Israel and Gaza, the BBC and New York Times have yet to report on Amnesty International’s findings on Hamas’ extrajudicial killings, CAMERA's Maia Zelkha writes at JNS.
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.
While the Financial Times uncritically cites a UN claim that "Gaza now has the highest rate of child amputees per capita in the world," there appears to be no original source for that increasingly ubiquitous allegation.
The Norwegian Refugee Council's Communications Adviser, Shaina Low, blamed Israel exclusively for all suffering in Gaza since the war began while lamenting the lack of sufficient aid, including dual-use items such as concrete, cement, rebar, and lubricant oil.
A CAMERA Espanol study of EFE's post-Oct. 7 coverage finds anti-Israel libels -- from organ harvesting, to snipers targeting infants and the bombing of the Minab girls' school in Iran -- levelling up as supposedly legitimate news. Meanwhile, Hamas and Hezbollah violence melts away as episodic or nonexistent background noise.
Calling Israel’s rejection of Trump’s Gaza proposal an 'anti-peace' move frames security concerns as unimportant and oversimplifies 'peace' as a concept that means the same thing to everyone.
Multiple levels of hearsay now suffices for reporting, according to NPR. In lowering its standards, it repeated false statistics that it did not bother to fact-check.
The New York Times (re)introduced its audience to, and promoted the work of, Gazan blood-libel-photojournalist Saher Alghorra. Alghorra was unable to photograph a single Hamas fighter, but last year, photographed an emaciated baby who The Times later had to acknowledge was not healthy before the war, as the caption initially stated.
News the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are to form a unity government calls for reminders about who Hamas is and why it is deemed a terrorist group.
