The media spreads the massacre hoax
The media is poisonous in its propensity to spread Hamas’ lies about Israel. Actually, the media is poisonous in its propensity to spread lies about a lot of things. One wonders what the world would be like if that weren’t true.
One of the media’s specialties is the blood libel against Jews and Israel. Towards the beginning of Israel’s action against Hamas post-10/7, there was the infamous hospital bombing that never was. The hallmark of the media’s role is to spread the lies Hamas tells about the number of casualties and the source of those casualties, making sure that the lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on.
Once again.
This time it was a report on a supposed Israeli massacre of people waiting in line for food in Gaza:
… [M]ajor news outlets, including Fox News, CNN, the Associated Press, and the BBC, rushed to publish a fake news story about a supposed “massacre” at an Israeli-allied Gaza aid distribution site. According to the Hamas-run “Gaza Ministry of Health,” Israeli “warships, tanks, and drones” randomly opened fire on thousands of people, killing 31 and injuring over 200 more.
Why would Israel do that when their entire strategy is to neuter Hamas’ power structure by not allowing the terrorist group to control the distribution of aid? The answer is that they wouldn’t, which should have been enough for these supposed unbiased press outlets to pause and do some actual research. Sure enough, within hours, surveillance video had been released showing that no such attack ever took place.
In fact, it’s Hamas firing on Gazans trying to get aid; the motive of Hamas appears to be that Hamas is no longer in charge of the aid and can’t earn money and power from its usual methods of controlling crucial supplies for the population. This is an Orwellian twist, which is also a feature of the MSM reporting on the Gaza War (and so many other things).
BREAKING: Hamas has openly announced “field executions” of Palestinians who went to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for food.
They’re publicly murdering their own people for seeking aid—and the media somehow keeps “missing” the story. pic.twitter.com/km627Fc3jx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 3, 2025
What’s the media’s game? Why do they do this? Why do they make the same “mistake” over and over? We have to conclude the reason is that it’s no mistake. If it were, not only would they be skeptical next time, but they would be extremely apologetic and do some soul-searching every time the error is found out. But nothing of the sort happens. Instead, the pattern repeats over and over.
The deeper “why” is that they have demonized Israel and made pets out of the Gazans. It would be “bigoted” to question Hamas’ word, after all. It would help the bloodthirsty Israeli “colonizers.” It would make the reporter who sympathized with Israelis persona non-grata in the MSM establishment.
The media’s message is, simply, that Jews are an inherently bloodthirsty people who enjoy slaughtering innocent people.
He describes some of the incendiary coverage. Seems to me it has probably contributed to some of the recent attacks on Jews in this country, but the MSM will never own up to that.
NOTE: The BBC issued a tepid withdrawal of the story, after the damage was done.
Because they are the brotherhoods wurlitzer
If Israel had been a longtime ally of the USSR and then of the Russian Federation, the media would either ignore and/or downplay and support (via their biased reporting) all Israeli operations against Hamas/Gaza, and would report Hamas as a terrorist organization
The UN also would be supporting Israel.
And oh yeah, there would not be any pro-Hamas demonstrations anywhere in the USA.
@neo: The deeper “why” is that [the media] have demonized Israel and made pets out of the Gazans.
True, but why has the media done that?
All I can come up with is that the global elites find it convenient to cater to the left, the third world and Muslims, thus to throw Israel to the wolves. The legacy media serves the interests of the global elites, therefore the legacy media works against Israel and the Jews.
QED.
I am open to other explanations.
huxley:
The media is mostly on the left, and therefore follows the leftist line as the left defines the players in the conflict. Israelis are colonialism, etc., and Palestinians are the noble victimized “brown” people.
Plus, Europe expunges its Holocaust guilt by believing the Jews are now the Nazis.
Antisemitism is a worldwide sociopathic disorder. The planet is going to hell.
Indeed, just like Trump is a Nazi…
…and therefore expunging him by ANY MEANS necessary is the very definition of holiness and goodness…AND MORALITY…
…so Israel is a genocidal, Nazi state…
…and therefore being anti-Israel—and expunging it by any means necessary—is, likewise, the very definition of holiness and goodness…AND MORALITY….
By extension, since Trump, the Nazi, is fighting AGAINST Anti-Semitism, it is therefore a MORAL IMPERATIVE for all good and decent people that THEY BE ANTI-SEMITIC…
…and since Israel is a genocidal, Nazi state, it is therefore a MORAL IMPERATIVE that it be destroyed from off the face of the earth.
(It’s really quite simple…)
Finally, the LEFT (and much of Europe, but not only Europe) has a coherent cause it can rally around.
The only question remaining, really, is whether they can achieve their sacred, heartfelt efforts to destroy Trump and Israel (oh, and the US, too, for that matter) BEFORE they can fulfill, once again, their own—remarkable—ambition of self-destruction.
This one, folks, may go down to the wire…
Look at the Doublethink the Left engaged in after the Boulder attack—they rushed to blame it on a Trump supporter because he was “white and hates Jews” at the same time they are attacking Trump himself for trying to combat antisemitism on college campuses.
Here’s an interesting, far-reaching article that may go a ways to explain, at least in part, this terrible death wish—in the delusional pursuit of total power—as touched on in my previous comment:
“Everyone Was Just Doing Their Job: How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everyone-was-just-doing-their-job-how-specialization-enables-systemic-evil
Related, from Brendan O’Neil:
“The Jew-burning in Colorado speaks to the West’s fascistic turn”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/02/the-jew-burning-in-colorado-speaks-to-the-wests-fascistic-turn/
H/T Powerline blog.
“…tepid withdrawal…”
Heh.
Wonder if those scoundrels’ll DARE to touch this:
“Gaza Clan Group Condemns Hamas for Ceasefire Rejection”—
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/israel-hamas-gaza/2025/06/03/id/1213445/
Opening grafs:
(Jus’ kiddin’…)
…As John Hinderaker takes a stab at what seems to him an unfathomable conundrum…
“LOCUS OF EVIL”—
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/locus-of-evil.php
Chalk it up to a lack of imagination, I guess…
It is part of the Democrat Demonization Strategy to choose a target and demonize that target. DDS, not Trump DS, nor was it Bush Derangement Syndrome when Krauthammer coined the term. The Jews are a target, and long have been. Because they’re usually more successful than their non-Jewish peers, on average, and Envy is a (sinful) emotion most folk have sometimes.
The Dem Demonization Strategy includes the tactic of loud lies or misrepresentations, and a quiet apology later IF there is big pushback and evidence. The purpose is create a feeling that the target is evil, which then justifies use of illegal and immoral means to stop the evil.
Kavanaugh was a target, Mark Judge a smaller target, Romney, Palin, Reagan Nixon, Goldwater, all targets of Dem Demonization. Now Musk, plus Tesla cars.
Nuclear Power suffered Dem Demonization, as did the oil & gas economy in general. Every academic cancellation against conservatives, Republicans, Christians, and even Dems who disagree, goes thru a more or less Demonization phase.
Hitler, and more importantly many many normal Germans, demonized the Jews, which helps the general normalization of all Demonization tactics. Please keep using the word when appropriate. There is some demonization of the Woke from Reps, but it mostly remains honest critiques of terrible policies. So illegal actions are not justified nor excused.
The Fascists supported strongmen and demonization of some target by mass mob violence. Today’s Democrats are like weakman fascists supporting mob action against their targets.