What is Hamas's Arrow Unit? CAMERA offers a look at the group's origins, purview, and role in the Israel-Islamist conflict, while providing an overview of the internecine violence that has long been a dominant feature of it.
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.
A recent USA Today Op-Ed claimed that Israel is weaponizing and depriving Gaza of aid. But as CAMERA notes, Hamas alone is responsible for the food situation in Gaza.
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.
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.
The Guardian’s “83% civilian” claim depends on the bizarre premise that if a Palestinian killed in Gaza is not marked as dead on a particular IDF list of named terrorists, they are necessarily a civilian. Ignoring thousands of unnamed fighters killed and omitting key context, the paper spun Hamas propaganda as fact.
The BBC uncritically amplified an IPC report declaring famine in Gaza City, despite its reliance on an unpublished phone survey, outdated figures, and questionable NGO sources. Israeli rebuttals highlighting these flaws were sidelined, while the BBC promoted voices with a long record of accusing Israel of “engineered starvation.”
BBC framed a “major escalation” without noting Hamas’s military presence or its fifty hostages. That omission hides the key fact: Palestinian misery could end if Hamas freed them.
For nearly two years, Haaretz has amplified the false claim that Israel is “starving” Gaza, relying on a long-time anti-Israel activist and misleading images of sick children whose conditions had nothing to do with hunger. UN data and multiple expert reviews have repeatedly shown no famine exists. Yet the campaign continues.
