The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Friday, July 31, 2026

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad admit 18 "medical workers" in Gaza were actually terrorists. London's Hackney mayor gives Haifa mayor until October 7, 2026, to respond to the borough's desire to end twin city relationship. Israeli tourists are attacked at their hotel in Crete.

Ingredients of Innuendo: The New York Times and the Whitewashing of Terror

The New York Times does not like to use the word terrorist when it comes to Palestinian terror and it does not want the IDF to either. Perhaps the allergy to the word is why the paper of record still has not acknowledged the numerous announcements by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad outing many "journalists" as terrorists.

A Week of Jeremy Bowen: Analysis or Opinion?

There is a line between analysis and opinion, and on the BBC that line must be iron. Analysis presents facts and shows how those facts connect. On the BBC, it cannot be partisan. It must be entirely factual, accurate and impartial. It must be a tool to allow audiences to reach their own conclusions. Jeremy Bowen is not a journalist, he is a public servant, and BBC radio and television is not a Guardian opinion piece. The BBC is not the right forum for offering heavily politicised, carefully cherry picked, deeply biased conclusions born in a very specific political echo chamber.