Israel/Palestine
Networks Use End of Gaza Ceasefire to Signal They Still Trust Hamas
During the early hours Tuesday in the Middle East, Israel resumed its pummeling of Hamas targets after Hamas rejected one proposal after another to continue peace talks and release more hostages they kidnapped on October 7, 2023. Predictably, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC blamed Israel for having “shatter[ed]” a “fragile ceasefire” and ensured “war has returned to the Gaza…
Oliver Claims If Hamas Supporter Says He Isn't Anti-Semitic, He Isn't
HBO’s John Oliver thinks Republicans are racists, and the fact that Republicans would vehemently reject the label doesn’t matter to him. However, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver tried to claim that former Columbia University student and pro-Hamas protest leader Mahmoud Khalil isn’t anti-Semitic because Khalil claims he’s not and therefore the efforts to deport him are an attempt…
Yes, Non-Citizen Terror Supporters Should Leave
It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas sympathizers. Yet this simple truth seems to confound a wide variety of commentators across the political spectrum. This week, the White House announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be deporting an apparently green card-holding Columbia University graduate student named Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil came to the United…
‘You Should Watch the News’: Sec. Rubio DESTROYS Margaret Brennan
We regret to inform you that, once again, CBS’s Margaret Brennan has attempted to stump Secretary of State Marco Rubio on matters of free speech. And, once again, she has been absolutely wrecked for her troubles.
Stein Tries To Claim Conservatives Are Hypocrites On College Speech
MSNBC’s Sam Stein traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to express his disappointment in conservatives for not defending Mahmoud Khalil as he faces deportation for his role in pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University. As Stein tells it, people who made such a big deal about cancel culture on campus need to stand up and claim, “This is chilling.”
NBC: Visa Overstayer Arrest a 'Pro-Palestinian Protests' 'Crackdown'
The three broadcast networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS took different approaches to the news that more Columbia University students have been arrested, but none of them were good. NBC portrayed visa enforcement as a “crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests,” while CBS ignored the reason for the arrest, and ABC ignored her previous protest-related arrest and, like the others, that this is not the…
Barron-Lopez: If Trump Deports Hamas Supporter, He Can Deport Anyone
PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez tried to claim on Thursday that if the Trump Administration is able to successfully deport pro-Hamas Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, it can deport any legal immigrant simply for disagreeing with them.
Meyers, Colbert: 'Naked Authoritarianism' To Deport Pro-Hamas Student
NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist…
Column: When the Word 'Insurrectionist' Should Be Used
It would have been a dangerous drinking game during the Biden presidency to chug every time the media broadly described January 6 protesters as “insurrectionists.” That was the automatic journalistic assumption for every protester on the scene.So it’s remarkable when you consider radical leftist Mahmoud Khalil and the group he led, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).
PBS Falsely Says There's No Evidence Arrested Student Is Pro-Hamas
As Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his part in pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests, PBS News Hour would have its viewers believe that he is just a victim of a presidential administration that doesn’t like having its opinions challenged. On Monday’s episode, William Brangham falsely claimed there’s no proof to support the allegations against him.
HAMAS MEDIA: Nets Come Out Strong for Terror-Adjacent Student Agitator
The networks had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into coverage of the virulent antisemitic protests at major universities across the United States, beginning with those at Columbia University in New York. The protesters’ worst excesses were often left off of reporting, lest people get the idea that they were materially supportive both of Hamas and of the atrocities they committed on…
PBS Plays Dumb on Why Power-Mad Trump Is Punishing Columbia University
Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the panel of journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Never mind months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish students and the chanting of homicidal slogans in the…
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Free Speech Under Trump
The New York Times can’t seem to make up its mind. Is free speech "killing us"? Or is Trump killing free speech?
What About Building That Gaza Riviera?
President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the few million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza to other Arab countries and then rebuild and redevelop Gaza was met with some surprise and pushback. Isn’t this unfair? Doesn’t this violate the rights of Palestinians in Gaza? Usually, when we think about those who see a world with rights and without responsibilities, a world with claims but without…
