Critics Highlight US Media Bias Against Israel and Jews During Hamas Attacks
Many in the U.S. media have shown a clear bias against Jews and the only true democracy in the Middle East, experts say.
Oct. 7 was the biggest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust with Hamas launching a barrage of terrorist attacks against Israel. Despite that, too many in the U.S. media have shown bias against the Jewish state, according to critics.
U.S. media outlets have uncritically relied on the Gaza Health Ministry, run by the terrorist group Hamas.
In one notable incident, outlets including The New York Times and CNN cited the Hamas claim that Israel bombed the al-Alhi Hospital in Gaza—only for U.S. intelligence to conclude that Palestinian terrorists, not Israel, were behind the Oct. 17 explosion. Additionally, surveillance footage has shown that the explosion wasn’t at the hospital itself, but at a nearby parking lot.
The New York Times subsequently issued an editors’ note expressing regret over its coverage of the bombing.
“Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict, and the prominent promotion it received, Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified,” it stated, in part.
