NEWS YOU DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT THIS WEEK—FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 2026
Israeli economy grows at a rapid pace. Mojtaba Khamenei asserts control. Berlin mayoral candidate is afraid of her own extremist base. News you didn't hear about this week.
NPR’s Journalistic Malpractice Demonized Israelis
NPR eschewed good journalistic practice and the use of empirical evidence in favor of wholly unsupported, alleged anecdotal evidence. The result was a podcast that demonized Israelis.
Foreign Policy Contributor Has Thoughts—but No Facts—about Iran
Most interestingly, 44 percent hold a positive view of President Donald Trump, but 51 percent hold a positive view of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has used even harsher rhetoric against the regime.
CAMERA OP-ED: Are newsrooms burying Iranian efforts to influence midterms?
While major news outlets have extensively covered how rising gas prices impact voters ahead of the midterms, those same outlets buried the story when senior Iranian officials explicitly confirmed that Tehran is targeting oil tankers to inflate energy costs and influence the vote.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Journalists have moved on from massacre in Iran, but insist on relitigating Gaza war
They put on kid gloves with a U.S. enemy and wear brass knuckles against America’s closest partner in the Middle East, CAMERA's Shay Khatiri writes at JNS.
The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Friday, August 28, 2026
An assassination plot on Yair Netanyahu. United Nations' news roundup. An old UNRWA facility will be converted to an Arab community center complex.
The Times’ Islamic Republic of Economics
Should the U.S. let Iran control Hormuz? A New York Times op-ed suggested it should, but the logic it employs is questionable.
The Old News of the “New Physics of War”
A New York Times op-ed claims the recent wars in the Middle East demonstrate "the new physics of power." But these allegedly new physics are actually quite old.
EFE’s Post-Oct. 7 Coverage: Terror Groups as Bit Players With Outsized Credibility in Spanish News Agency
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.
Iran’s New Foreign Policy Chief Is an Internationally Wanted Terror Mastermind—And the Press Won’t Report it
Rezaee is wanted by INTERPOL for a terrorist attack against the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in 1994.