Israel/Palestine

On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash suggests to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu is intentionally prolonging the war and death in order to remain in office. 

On the PBS edition of Amanpour & Co. this week, host Christiane Amanpour wept over “Israel’s siege on Gaza,” which meant (according to this written introduction) that “basic necessities like food, water, medicine and fuel are close to running out completely.” Amanpour talked to UN Relief Chief Martin Griffiths, who gullibly found Hamas’s fatality numbers reliable and ridiculously…

The great Haley Strack at National Review wrote Tuesday that Zainab Chaundry, a member of Maryland’s Commission on Hate Crime Response who was appointed by Attorney General Anthony Brown (D), has claimed that it’s “fake” news to say Hamas murdered Jewish babies during their barbaric terror attacks on October 7.

One definition of genocide given by the United Nations is “a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Hamas wants to wipe Israel’s Jews off the map and have Islamic control “from the river to the sea,” a slogan both sides have previously recognized as a genocidal statement. But is Hamas ever accused of genocide in the…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is an interesting guy. He is a former IDF chief of staff who, as PM, was prepared to hand Yasser Arafat 97 percent of the West Bank in 2000 only to get the Second Intifada and for his Labor Party to never to hold power again. On Monday’s PBS Amanpour and Company, he fought with the eponymous host on the supposed lack of evidence the IDF has…

On Sunday, Israel released surveillance footage from Al-Shifa Hospital of Hamas dragging hostages into the facility against their will. It also gave CNN’s Oren Liebermann an opportunity to visit the newly discovered tunnels it found on campus, but Liebermann still claimed on Monday’s CNN This Morning that Israel has not met the burden of proof to justify its claims and continued to…

The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC is where all critical thinking and common sense goes to die as evidenced by a Sunday segment where Hasan accused Israel of shifting the goalposts on its narrative of where Hamas’s HQ is because he refused to entertain the simple idea that Hamas’s leadership could’ve fled south in the early days of the fighting.

Ben Shapiro defends Elon Musk against accusations of anti-Semitism, criticizing the media and leftists for politicizing the issue. He contrasts the media's treatment of Musk with their stance on Israel-Hamas conflict, claiming that the media often ignores actual anti-Semitism when it doesn't align with their political narrative. 

This is going to keep happening to American media outlets when they hire local freelancers to cover the Israel-Hamas war. Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News reported that Marwat Al-Azza, a freelance producer in East Jerusalem for NBC News, was arrested by Israeli authorities Thursday "on suspicion of inciting terrorism and identifying with a terrorist organization."

We are told by our self-proclaimed moral superiors in the media, reliably and quite often, that eliminationist rhetoric is a very threat upon the moral fabric of our democracy, and quite possibly antisemitism-adjacent. But there is as of yet no such outcry given both the eliminationist language used by congressman Dan Goldman and the network that aired such language with no challenge or…

Does journalist Christiane Amanpour truly believe the terror group Hamas is a reliable source of combat information? On the Tuesday edition of Amanpour & Co. (which runs on CNN International and later on tax-funded PBS), Amanpour talked with familiar face Mark Regev, senior adviser to Israel’s prime…

On the Saturday edition of NBC’s Today reporter Erin McLaughlin ran down the list of evidence Israel has provided that Hamas has used the Al-Shifa Hospital for military purposes only to dismisses it as “nothing definitive.” Meanwhile, on CBS Saturday Morning, Imtiaz Tyab did the same thing, labeling the provided as evidence as “frankly underwhelming.”

New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour Friday weekly news recapper David Brooks claimed he isn't sure progressives know what they are talking about when they chant “from the river to the sea.” Whether Brooks actually has no idea or is playing dumb doesn’t really matter, PBS viewers deserve a better conservative perspective.

Having been off-the-air from covering the Israel-Hamas war for roughly three weeks, CBS foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab resurfaced to lead off Friday’s CBS Mornings and, as he had from the onset of the war, played an incredibly reliable role of tool for the terrorist organization trashing Israel’s response to Hamas’s October 7 animalism.