Drew’s Receipts: Media’s Hamas-Friendly Week
Happy Saturday. Let’s check in on the media this past week.
Fact-checking the fact checkers: For some journalists, the real victims of Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,000 Israelis last weekend were the terrorists.
Reporters at prominent news outlets warned that accounts of the Palestinian barbarians beheading babies they killed lacked sufficient confirmation. The “disinformation” could stoke “Islamophobia” and put Islamist terrorists
All decent people were horrified by reports from Israel this week that Hamas terrorists beheaded babies during a bloody rampage through the county that sparked a war. For some journalists, though, the horror was not that the Israeli babies were massacred but that accounts of the killings might make Islamist terrorists look bad.
Snopes, Oct. 13: “Were Israeli Babies Beheaded by Hamas Militants During Attack on Kfar Aza?”:
As violence escalated in Israel and Palestine in early October 2023, politicians, news media, and activists in the U.S. and U.K. spread a rumor about Hamas fighters supposedly beheading as many as 40 Israeli infants. As we looked into the claim, we found contradictory reports from journalists, Israeli army officials, and almost no independent corroborations of the alleged war crime, leading to concerns among fact-checkers that such a claim may be premature or unsubstantiated. …
People should be wary of claims that echo Islamophobic rhetoric, or statements that compare the violence in Kfar Aza to “ISIS-style” killings—i.e., beheadings that have taken place in a different context and were committed by a different group. Such rumors that emphasize specific, unverified acts of brutality against infants and that attempt to connect them to patterns of violence carried out by unconnected Islamist groups have the potential to become dangerous propaganda.
As the IDF says it does not ’have time” to confirm the reports of beheaded babies, the level of misinformation around events in Israel ‘seems near unprecedented.”
Click the image below to read our reporting. https://t.co/Q7qzYijgGB
— The Intercept (@theintercept) October 12, 2023
Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said that it had confirmed Hamas beheaded babies & children while we were live on the air. The Israeli government now says today it CANNOT confirm babies were beheaded. I needed to be more careful with my words and I am sorry. https://t.co/Yrc68znS1S
— Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) October 12, 2023
A series of shocking reports have spread horrific claims of baby beheadings by Hamas militants across social and mainstream media in recent days. But the reports are unconfirmed, and in some cases have been retracted. https://t.co/R5IwE0mJx1
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 12, 2023
There was no beheading of a single baby, let alone 40.
There was no massacre of 260 Israelis at a rave.
There has been no mass rape of Israeli women or the targeting of elderly.
All the above are lies.
Disinformation to dehumanise Palestinians and justify a genocide in Gaza.
— Dilly Hussain (@DillyHussain88) October 11, 2023
The story about babies being beheaded at Kfar Aza is based on one live report by one Israeli reporter and has not been corroborated by officials but it has been reported as fact around the world by experienced journalists who should know better. #gaza
— Dominic Waghorn (@DominicWaghorn) October 11, 2023
The beheading babies thing might have been fake, but the Israeli destruction of Gaza is all too real. pic.twitter.com/QzUlfxyeVI
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) October 12, 2023
The only source for ‘Hamas beheaded babies” appears to be the Israeli military, which is widely known to spread lies and disinformation
Journalists, this is the fog of war. You’ll be seeing all sorts of claims. Don’t amplify unverified, sensational info https://t.co/7tiCNAj3j9
— Adam Elmahrek (@adamelmahrek) October 10, 2023
🧵More on the Israeli disinformation campaign:
The Israeli army has now said it has no information to confirm that ‘Hamas beheaded babies”. These baseless claims, which seem to have originated from the army itself, have been repeated by US officials & the likes of @CNN /1 https://t.co/RIICuZdxBN
— Yumna (@yumna_patel) October 10, 2023
The Chapo guys were always some of the worst people, and I hope more people realize that now. pic.twitter.com/VKydtMVAHY
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 11, 2023
The media were not alone in denying the beheadings.
“The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has strongly dismissed the false claims promoted by some Western media outlets, such as Palestinian freedom fighters killing children and targeting civilians,” Hamas said Wednesday on its Telegram channel.
Hamas posted a video on Telegram Thursday that appears to show its members abducting an infant and a toddler from Holit, one of the southern Israeli border towns the Iran-backed terrorist group overran last weekend. The caption describes the terrorists as “showing compassion for children.”
The facts: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office released Thursday what it described as “horrifying photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters.”
https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1712471782303867144
Children, women, and the elderly were among some 1,300 people killed and 200 taken hostage by Hamas, including a number of Americans. Much of Hamas’s barbarity was documented in gory videos that the Iran-backed terrorist group posted online.
Israel has declined to officially confirm that babies were beheaded, and the Israeli military spokesperson’s office did not respond Friday to the Washington Free Beacon‘s request for comment. But an Israeli military spokeswoman and a reporter at Israel’s i24 News separately this week said that soldiers told them of seeing children and babies beheaded at Kfar Aza, another terrorized community near the border of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Yossi Landau, the head of operations for the southern region of Zaka, a volunteer emergency response group in Israel, told CBS News on Wednesday that he saw with his own eyes children and babies who had been beheaded.
“I saw a lot more that cannot be described for now,” he added, speaking of bodies of parents and children that showed clear signs of torture, “because it’s very hard to describe.”
Media bubble: Following the barbaric terrorist attack over the weekend that left over 1,000 Israelis dead, the media are mad…at Israel, rolling out content that could’ve been printed by Hamas itself.
Reuters: “A Brief History of Gaza’s 75 Years of Woe”:
In 2000, Israeli-Palestinian relations sank to a new low with the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada. It ushered in a period of suicide bombings and shooting attacks by Palestinians, and Israeli air strikes, demolitions, no-go zones and curfews. …
On Oct.7, Hamas gunmen launched a surprise attack on Israel, rampaging through towns, killing hundreds, and taking dozens of hostages back to Gaza. Israel took revenge, hammering Gaza with air strikes and razing entire districts in some of the worst blood-letting in the 75 years of conflict.
Washington Post: “Gaza Strip Explained: Who Controls It and What To Know”:
The coordinated attack by Hamas caught Israel by surprise but comes after months of worsening tensions over violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque—a sacred Muslim site in the heart of Jerusalem located on the same spot as the Temple Mount revered by Jews—as well as continuing resentment of the punishing blockade and occupation of Palestinian lands. The presence of once-fringe Jewish supremacists and settler leaders in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government has further inflamed tensions with the Palestinians and caused domestic strife inside Israel that has led to a perception of weakness.
NPR: “How the Al-Aqsa Mosque Became a Flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”:
[Pro-Palestinian activist Yousef Munayyer:] You know, the Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of them—they’ve been refugees living inside of Gaza for 75 years. And this is, of course, compounded by decades of military occupation and, in the last decade and a half, a brutal siege of the Gaza Strip, which has held 2 million Palestinians there hostage. In recent years and months, the escalation of violence against Palestinians has been noted by the United Nations and governments throughout the region who’ve been warning that this escalation of Israeli violence against Palestinians is going to lead to an explosion in the region.
New York Times: “Gaza Has Suffered Under 16-Year Blockade”:
For some Gazans, Saturday morning’s surprise Palestinian attack into southern Israel seemed a justified response to a 16-year Israeli blockade. Others worried that the coordinated attack would only add to Gaza’s misery as the tiny enclave braced for a large-scale response from Israel.
The Palestinian territory of Gaza has been under a suffocating Israeli blockade, backed by Egypt, since Hamas seized control of the coastal strip in 2007. The blockade restricts the import of goods, including electronic and computer equipment, that could be used to make weapons and prevents most people from leaving the territory.
Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’ surprise attack, and the impacts of the strikes are already devastating. https://t.co/XUIBAD4DLq
— ABC News (@ABC) October 10, 2023
And some reporters covering the conflict are actual Nazis while others discussing the attacks endorsed violent terrorism.
🚨 ‘The main reporter covering the war in Gaza for @AP has called publicly for the annihilation of Israel and a ’Palestinian revolt” & compared Israel to Nazis, HonestReporting revealed Wednesday in an investigation of his social media accounts.” https://t.co/R8hKiYDUAy
— Richard Goldberg (@rich_goldberg) October 13, 2023
It’s truly shocking to see ppl like @KarenAttiah of @washingtonpost -who regularly posts pics of her cat & her workouts- reveal themselves as rabid antisemites who think decapitating Israeli babies is A-ok in the name of ‘decolonization” & that you are a ‘loser” if you disagree pic.twitter.com/8wWpA79i
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