It’s impossible not to see within Goodall’s caricature of an all-powerful Israel nefariously determining the fate of the world an evocation of toxic conspiratorial tropes about Jewish or Israeli power – a cabal of bad actors representing an organic obstacle to peace and progress.
The BBC continues to ignore the abuse of journalism by terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, not least by failing to adequately report on the collaboration between such organizations and media outlets such as Al Jazeera.
Readers who thought they were about to listen to, or read about, a human interest story from Gaza were instead treated to lies about Israel and denial of terrorism.
NBC's recent reporting on Lebanon had various layers of bias, including buried facts, omitted facts, and wrong information. The result was a lack of accuracy, balance and context.
On the border with Lebanon, Israeli residents described their daily realities of instability, sleeplessness, and the constant need for resilience amid war with Hezbollah and Iran. Outside of Israel, International Quds Day drew tens of thousands of demonstrators, rallying in support of designated terrorist organizations.
A Mar. 15 MS NOW segment drew a false equivalence between school shootings and Israeli military operations in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, ignoring the difference between Israeli soldiers operating in complex urban warfare environments and school shooters that purposefully target children.
It’s extremely dispiriting that, with all Max Hastings’ erudition, he nonetheless succumbed to mind-numbingly banal cliches and ahistorical arguments about the root cause of violence and instability in the Middle East.
Can Israel’s military be trusted to investigate itself? With its “Video Investigation: How the Israeli military responds to allegations of abuse in Gaza,” NBC News steered its viewers to conclude that Israel has committed war crimes that should be investigated by the world because it has failed to investigate itself. But to make its case, NBC resorted to concealing the facts again and again.
ABC News enabled Hamas-laundered propaganda when it reported uncritically on a Duke University-funded medical research study. Two Hamas-allied physicians co-authored the extraordinarily biased study with 11 Duke University students and faculty.
