Americans seeking truth about Israel and
the Middle East can rarely find it in our traditional media. This point
has been proven by a recent raft of media reports based on outright
lies, cover-ups, twisted fantasies and blatant attacks on Israel.
Our legacy media have fallen to
disgraceful depths. They no longer represent the truth but promote
a false narrative that strongly conforms to progressive ideology to
promote leftist and other anti-Israel causes.
1. “60 Minutes” inserts fake Kamala Harris answer into her interview. The CBS
program asked the vice president if the United States had any influence
over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Harris’s first
confused, “word salad” answer aired briefly but was quickly replaced. CBS inserted her shorter answer to a different question.
Since the fake answer was exposed, CBS has refused to publish a full transcript of the interview, as it commonly does. The Trump campaign accused CBS of making the edit to manipulate the election. What other reason could CBS have for falsifying the interview and refusing to release Harris’s real words?
2. “ The New York Times” idolizes terrorist mastermind Nasrallah. Following Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Times eulogized the
terrorist leader as if he were a hero—calling him a “powerful orator,
beloved by Shi’ite Muslims,” crediting him with helping to “provide
social services for Lebanon,” and, fantastically, trying to sell the lie
that he wanted “one Palestine, with equality for Muslims, Jews and
Christians.”
Iranian
waves poster of Hezbollah’s murderous mastermind Hassan Nasrallah, who
was killed by Israel as others burn an Israeli flag. The New York Times eulogized the Lebanese
terrorist leader as if he were a hero—joining other mainstream media
that recently lied and twisted facts about Israel and her enemies.
The Times even had the audacity to call Israel’s assassination of Nasrallah an “escalation” of the war Hezbollah started on Oct. 8, 2023.
The truth: Nasrallah was a murderous terrorist responsible for killing countless Americans, Lebanese, Syrians and Israelis. The Times’ portrayal of him as a hero only attempts to delegitimize Israel’s fight against Iran and its terrorist partners.
3. “ CBS” makes a bloodthirsty anti-Israel rally in Dearborn, Mich., sound like a picnic. On
Sept. 25, a “Stand with Lebanon” demonstration featured antisemitic
screams of “Death to Israel” and cheers to fake reports that Hezbollah
was invading Israel. CBS , however, portrayed the gathering as a wholesome, civil demonstration in support of Lebanon.
One of the speakers, Osama Siblani, said, “To Netanyahu … we are going to take you back to Poland.” Who was CBS serving when it decided to omit any mention of the rally’s hateful, antisemitic rhetoric?
4. “ Bloomberg” portrays Israel as the aggressor against Iran. After
Iran recently attacked Israel with 180 ballistic missiles, Bloomberg’s
headline claimed, “Iran pushed into missile fire by sustained Israel
escalation.” Suggesting that Israel was responsible for escalating
hostilities with belligerent Iran is, obviously, an absurd falsehood.
Iran began hostilities against Israel when
its proxy Hamas massacred more than 1,200 people and kidnapped more
than 200 more on Oct. 7. Iran-sponsored Hezbollah then escalated the
fight by attacking Israel a day later. Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen soon
followed suit. Iran ramped up hostilities further by launching more
than 300 drones and missiles at Israel in April. Iran’s latest missile
attack clearly represented a further escalation against Israel. Ask
yourself: Why would Bloomberg represent Israel as the aggressor when it is defending itself?
5. “ CBS” reprimands its journalist for challenging antisemitic lies. On Sept. 30, CBS’s Tony Dokoupil interviewed
Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book “The Message,” in which he
unfairly condemns Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Dokoupil asked the
author tough questions like, “Why leave out that Israel is surrounded
by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals
with terror groups that want to eliminate it?”
Some CBS staffers reacted angrily
to the interviewer’s treatment of Coates. As a result, Dokoupil was
upbraided by top executives, who said that his interview didn’t meet the
network’s editorial standards. Dokoupil was essentially punished for
offending the woke sensitivities of CBS’s staff by deviating from the network’s anti-Israel narrative and asking hard questions, as all good journalists should do.
Who and what cause are CBS supporting when they criticize the truth in favor of a biased anti-Israel screed?
6. “ The New York Times” features a bogus report asserting the IDF targets children. On Oct. 9, the Times
published an article accusing Israel of purposely shooting Gazan
children in the head, using testimonials and x-rays to support the
outrageous accusation.
But at least two ballistics
experts, including a former U.S. Special Forces member, and one
radiologist explained why the X-rays had to be falsified. The author of
the Times article, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, also happens to deny that
Hamas uses human shields so as to actually increase civilian
casualties. Furthermore, the medical professionals who supported
Sidhwa’s X-ray evidence belong to the discredited Palestinian American
Medical Association (PAMA), which historically publishes
misinformation about the Gaza war.
As yet, the Times has made no effort to defend the forensic inconsistencies of its X-rays or its sources’ testimonials. The Times knows Israel doesn’t target civilians, let alone children. What are they trying to prove?
7. “ NPR” reports on Gaza hospitals without mentioning Hamas is occupying them. National Public Radio’s
reports parrot Hamas’s bogus casualty figures and make no mention of
Hamas using Gaza hospitals as headquarters and arms depots. NPR also
neglects to mention that its Gaza correspondents are under heavy
pressure from Hamas not to expose the terrorists’ use of hospitals as
shields for their military operations. Why would NPR protect Hamas and
impugn Israel, which never attacks hospitals without a military target
inside them?
The media’s motive for their constant Israel-bashing is to promote a progressive ideological agenda. According to a 2024 AllSides
media survey, the overwhelming majority of mainstream media lean left
politically. Likewise, the overwhelming majority of legacy media
audiences describe themselves as Democrats or leaning Democratic.
When it comes to Israel,
the media understand that progressive audiences strongly favor
narratives about allegedly downtrodden people—the
Palestinians—struggling for freedom from a supposedly despotic
regime—Israel. Despite the abject falseness of this narrative,
left-leaning media loyally promote it, thus supporting policies that
limit Israel’s efforts to defeat its enemies.
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