A Palestinian journalist, Issam Abdallah, who was reporting for Reuters on the exchange of fire between the IDF and Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, was shot dead in mid-October. Immediately, Reuters conducted its own hasty investigation, and accused the IDF of the killing. The IDF did not deny nor confirm it, and said it was […]
Widely disseminated Gaza casualty numbers are fake
Hugh Fitzgerald covered Wyner’s findings here, but given the lies that are being disseminated everywhere, they’re worth revisiting. “Wharton Professor: Gaza Death Numbers Are Fake,” by Eric Mack, Newsmax, March 10, 2024: The media, led by The Associated Press and Reuters in Gaza, have continued to push the Hamas-run Health Ministry death totals — even […]
Biden’s Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Now that President Biden, in both his Ramadan greetings to American Muslims, and in his State of the Union Speech, has accepted the Hamas-generated figure of “30,000 dead civilians” in Gaza, we need to look more closely at where Hamas gets its figures. More on the prestidigitation of Hamas’ statistical magicians can be found here: […]
Remember That Islamophobic Hate Crime In Burlington, Vermont? It Wasn’t
With antisemitism rising all over the world, Muslims in America are alarmed. Not because they care about the Jews who are the objects of antisemitic acts. Indeed, many of them enjoy the spectacle of their spreading distress. What worries them, however, is that some people might start to sympathize with those Jews again, and even, horribile […]
It Turns Out That Trump DIDN’T Try to Grab the Steering Wheel and Join the Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’
My latest in PJ Media is a VIP article. I am happy to be able to offer you a 5% discount on becoming a VIP member at PJ Media. Just enter the code SPENCER when you sign up here. It was one of the most exciting moments of the generally mind-numbingly boring Jan. 6 Stalinist show trials. […]
Out of Ideas? Media Digs Up the Old ‘Biden’s Not Senile, He Just Stutters’ Lie
New in PJ Media: At this point, at least, it looks as if the Democrats are stuck with Old Joe Biden, and so they’re making the best of it. The alleged president’s obvious cognitive decline, however, is getting more noticable all the time. Apparently, however, the Biden regime apparatchiks and their establishment media propagandists have […]
The New York Times’ ‘Witnesses’ of Gaza Massacre are Anything But Credible
The New York Times, ever faithful to its anti-Israel animus, credulously accepts the account of an alleged IDF “massacre” in Gaza put out by Hamas and its supporters. In doing so, it relies on “witnesses” who are anything but credible. “The evidence to the “massacre” that the @NYTimes believes,” Elder of Ziyon, March 1, 2024: […]
How the New York Times Reported on the ‘Massacre’ in Gaza
The New York Times, ever faithful to its anti-Israel animus, reported on the stampede on February 29 in northern Gaza by doubting every part of the IDF account, and credulously accepting, instead, the account put out by Hamas and its supporters. More on this double standard can be found here: “The evidence to the “massacre” […]
How the Media Treats Tel Aviv as Israel’s Capital
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel — the only capital the Jewish state has ever had. It has been the capital of the Jewish people for 3500 years. But some in the media, their anti-Israel animus showing, have tried to suggest that Tel Aviv, as Israel’s largest city and commercial hub, is the “real” capital […]
Media Leaves Out Key Details to Paint Israel as the Aggressor
As Hezbollah launched a series of rocket attacks upon Israel, the media attempted to paint Israel as the aggressor: “Media Ignore Anti-Israel Rocket Attack, Focus on Israel’s Military Response,” by Chaim Lax, Honest Reporting, February 15, 2024: While the sub-header for the second article [at Sky News] did mention that Israel was responding to an earlier […]