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.
U.S. media outlets repeatedly push claims that Israel has provided “no evidence” of UNRWA-Hamas ties. These claims are easily disproven by publicly available information. Ultimately, these reports serve to shield UNRWA from scrutiny.
The Washington Post says it won't publish misleading advertisements. However, a recent ad for UNRWA, the UN agency that works with the Palestinians, cited a false statistic. The Washington Post didn't flag or correct the misinformation.
Even in light of the additional evidence of UNRWA cooperation with terrorist organizations that has accumulated over the past two years, BBC journalists are apparently still not embarrassed by the corporation’s policy of uncritical amplification of that organization’s talking points and its failure to investigate UNRWA’s terror links.
