The "prestige press" of America and Europe is all too willing to repeat radical accusations that Israel is currently guilty of committing "genocide." Nothing's too inflammatory when Israel is the target.
As July comes to a close, The New York Times, CNN, The Associated Press, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Reuters and France24 all carelessly regurgitated the ramblings of leftist groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel to that Netanyahu's government was engaged in “genocide.”
Of course, nowhere did they mention that anti-Israel fanatic billionaire George Soros was funding these groups. Seems significant, given that it was liberal Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz himself who wrote in 2023 that “no single person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, especially among so-called progressives, than George Soros.”
Most of these harped on the notion that this was supposedly a “first” for Israel-based groups to turn on their own country, like it was some sort of Gotcha! moment for the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. AP Israel and Palestinian territories correspondent Sam Mednick went as far as to call the groups’ statements against their country as “[s]hattering a taboo in Israel.”
What taboo? There's nothing new in the animus of these groups. Not only are these groups notorious for peddling grotesquely anti-Israel agitprop for years, but both of them were funded to the tune of $1,140,000 and $200,000 respectively by Soros between 2017 and 2022.
The Soros empire was caught by MRC and others fueling a litany of groups that celebrated the actual genocidal carnage Hamas inflicted on the Israeli population October 7, 2023, that resulted in about 1,300 Israeli citizens slaughtered and hundreds taken hostage over the Gaza Strip, a number of which still remain there to this day by terrorist coercion. In fact, Soros himself wrote an op-ed in 2007 demanding that both the United States and Israel “open the door to Hamas” at the negotiating table.
The founder of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Dr. Ruchama Marton, came on record in 2017 supporting the pro-terrorist and anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in an absurd op-ed headlined, “BDS Is Our Only Lever Against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid.” Even the left-wing Anti-Defamation League castigated BDS as aiming “to dismantle the Jewish state and end the right to Jewish national self-determination on any portion of this contested land. BDS is one tactic in the long history of campaigns and efforts to delegitimize and isolate the State of Israel.”
The other group in the conversation, B’Tselem , has been smearing the Jewish State as an “apartheid” state for years. The header for B’Tselem’s campaign on the subject co-opted pro-Hamas language: “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: THIS IS APARTHEID.”
NGO Monitor reported in June 2025 that B’Tselem was “part of a network of NGOs that promote artificial and manufactured definitions of apartheid to extend the ongoing campaigns that seek to delegitimize and demonize Israel.” On its “THIS IS APARTHEID” campaign, NGO Monitor exposed the hatred undergirding its premises in 2021:
B’Tselem’s language is essentially anti-Zionist, reflecting the organization’s accelerating departure from an emphasis on documenting alleged human rights violations in the West Bank to challenging the legitimacy of Israel’s existence. Phrases such as apartheid and 'Jewish supremacy' repeat the canard that labels Jewish self-determination as inherently racist, and signals the embrace of a ‘one-state’ agenda.
Did The New York Times, CNN, AP, PBS, The Financial Times and Reuters bother to disclose any of this? Nope. Instead, all seven outlets framed their stories to make it appear as if altruistic Israeli organizations were just giving their presumably honest and neutral take on an ongoing conflict in their region and who were willing to take the high road and stand against their own.
The New York Times in particular prominently featured B’Tselem’s nutty contention that “All together, the Israeli campaign has amounted to ‘coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,’ the organization wrote.” France24’s only attempt at a disclosure was a meaningless one-off that both organizations are “frequent critics of Israeli government policies.” Talk about abusing a euphemism.
Not one of these outlets’ readers would have known about the historically leftist, anti-Israel extremism replete through both organizations or that Soros money was behind any of them.
