While the Financial Times uncritically cites a UN claim that "Gaza now has the highest rate of child amputees per capita in the world," there appears to be no original source for that increasingly ubiquitous allegation.
Have you read about: Michigan's history of political antisemitic harassment and intimidation; more proof that the Gaza famine never was; and Ireland's flying blind hatred of Jews?
Rather than investigating whether the United Nations' exceptional scrutiny and condemnation of Israel is justified, the BBC usually simply amplifies it.
What do CNN and the British Museum have in common? Under the guise that ancient history belongs to everyone, both use a site's long history of foreign invasion as an excuse to erase the original indigenous people who built it.
In covering the U.N. Commission of Inquiry’s report, “‘The essence of childhood has been destroyed’: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October, 2023,” The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and NBC blindly parroted its contents while completely ignoring critical questions and counter-critiques.
The Wrap editors agreed that a report detailing U.N. accusations charging Israel of sexual violence was remiss not to note the Jewish state's denial and commendably acted to add the Jewish state's missing information.
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.
