Far from informing readers, a recent Washington Post backgrounder on Palestinian Islamic Jihad echoed the terrorist group's propaganda. Indeed, the Post's attempt to provide essential background was riddled with errors of both omission and co-mission.
The Washington Post is running a veritable “Committee to Investigate Israel.” Despite being cash-strapped and resource starved, the newspaper has launched multiple costly “investigations” into IDF counter terror raids in Judea and Samaria. And all omit crucial facts while relying on distorted statistics.
In less than an hour, France24’s Jerusalem correspondent Laila Odeh went from glorifying a terrorist who murdered four civilians to being treated as a respectable, balanced journalist reporting on the exact same terror attack.
AFP reports that people shot people in the West Bank. Beyond that, the basics about the deadly terror attack in Eli, when Palestinian assailants gunned down four Israeli civilians, are rather fuzzy.
Arabic Euronews misleadingly reports that arch-terrorist Ahlam Tamimi was “arrested for eight years in Israel,” concealing the essential fact that she had been tried and sentenced to 16 life terms for her role in the deadly 2001 Sbarro suicide bombing.
A recent Washington Post report uncritically repeated casualty statistics provided by the Palestinian "Ministry of Health." Yet as CAMERA told the Post, that "ministry" is run by Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group.
Ashraf Ibrahim, killed in a gunbattle with Israeli troops, was a Palestinian intelligence officer. He also moonlighted as a fighter with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a designated terrorist organization affiliated with Fatah. News stories reported the former work while leaving out the latter.
Two recent Washington Post reports violate basic standards of both journalism and common sense. The newspaper continues to give undue credibility to terrorist groups and to pretend that their media operatives are reporters.
CAMERA prompts quick improvements after AP initially buried the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade affiliation of three fighters killed this morning near Nablus and underreported the number of combatants killed earlier this month in Gaza.
Question: When does the hyper-vigilant international media ignore Israel dropping a bomb? Answer: When a senior Israeli security official reveals that Palestinian terrorists were on the verge of opening a dangerous new front against Israeli civilians.
