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How CNN’s Biased Anti-Israel Reporter Distorted the Truth in Lebanon
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen
“Israeli military dropped bombs in ‘lethal proximity’ of at least 19 Lebanese hospitals, CNN analysis finds,” the American network’s headline declared.
What CNN should have written instead was: “Israeli military has not targeted any Lebanese hospital, while bombing Hezbollah infrastructure nearby.”
But that’s not a story, because it shows that Israel deliberately avoids harming civilian targets.
So CNN’s biased reporter, Tamara Qiblawi, twisted the facts to demonize Israel — and got a non-story published.
What @CNN‘s investigation actually reveals:
Israel has not targeted any Lebanese hospitals.
But that can’t be the story for @tamaraqiblawi, a CNN senior investigator with a history of bias.
https://t.co/RsM5XA2m7K
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 3, 2024
It’s a long read, full of testimonies, infographics, and data analyses, showing that most of the strikes landed “in the vicinity” of hospitals.
It details bomb fragments that hit these hospitals.
But it fails to say that this is precisely what proves the surgical nature of Israel’s strikes. Otherwise, these hospitals would have been reduced to rubble.
The report even includes a legal explanation about the protected status of hospitals.
Did no editor ask if the story shows that Israel abides by international law?
Did no boss wonder why a journalist spends so much effort covering what did not happen?
The report does include Israel’s response, blaming Hezbollah’s presence amid the civilian population. Then why didn’t Qiblawi spend at least an equivalent amount of time investigating where the terrorists are hiding?
Perhaps this is because Qiblawi has a history of bias against Israel. She has promoted anti-Israel conspiracy theories and joked about the Jewish State’s destruction.
Yet CNN has taken no action against her.
That might explain why the story ends with a nurse complaining about Israel’s evacuation warning:
For Nurse Foany, merely considering the evacuation was a terrifying thought. “Can you imagine what that was like? Imagine evacuating Lebanon’s largest public hospital, not just its staff but its sick and its injured in a single night,” he said. “It was a horrific thought.”
Because that’s all this is — horrific thoughts rather than actual reality. And that’s what Qiblawi wants to achieve — an audience imagining the worst of Israel.
With such reporting and editing, Israel faces a lose-lose situation in the international media: If it hadn’t issued evacuation warnings, it would have been covered as a monster. When it does everything it can to spare civilian sites despite Hezbollah’s nearby presence, it’s blamed for causing shrapnel damage and displacement.
But what this pseudo-journalism piece really shows is that Israel goes to extreme lengths to save innocent people’s lives, and Hezbollah is the one that puts them at risk.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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Fake Plan to Attack Australia Synagogue Fabricated by Organized Crime, Police Say
Car in New South Wales, Australia graffitied with antisemitic message. Photo: Screenshot
A fake plan to attack on a Sydney synagogue using a caravan of explosives was fabricated by an organized crime network in order to divert police resources, Australian police said on Monday.
Authorities in January found explosives in a caravan, or trailer, that could have created a blast wave of 40 meters (130 feet), along with the address of a Sydney synagogue.
But police on Monday said the discovery was part of a “criminal con job,” with the ease with which the caravan was found along with the lack of a detonator suggesting there was never any intent to attack Jewish targets.
“The caravan was never going to cause a mass casualty event but instead was concocted by criminals who wanted to cause fear for personal benefit,” Krissy Barrett, the Australian Federal Police‘s Deputy Commissioner for National Security, told a news conference.
“Almost immediately, experienced investigators … believed that the caravan was part of a fabricated terrorism plot – essentially a criminal con job.”
Police are yet to make any arrests in relation to the planning of the fabricated plot but have gone public with the information in order to provide comfort to the Jewish community in Sydney, Dave Hudson, New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner, told the news conference.
“It was about causing chaos within the community, causing threat, causing angst, diverting police resources away from their day jobs, to have them focus on matters that would allow them to get up to or engage in other criminal activity,” Hudson said.
Police are investigating a suspect involved in an organized crime network, he added.
Australia has suffered a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months, with homes, schools, synagogues, and vehicles targeted by vandalism and arson, drawing the ire of the country’s traditional ally Israel.
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Israel Urging UN Agencies, Aid Groups to Replace UNRWA in Gaza, Envoy Says
A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, Egypt, Nov. 27, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Israel is actively encouraging UN agencies and other aid groups to take over the work of the UN Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, Israel‘s ambassador said on Monday, after banning the agency on Israeli territory in January.
“We, the State of Israel, are working to find substitute to the act, to the work of UNRWA inside Gaza,” Daniel Meron, Israel‘s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, told reporters.
He declined to give specifics but said Israel was “encouraging the UN agencies and NGOs to take over each one in its own field that they specialize in.”
The Israeli government and research organizations have publicized findings showing numerous UNRWA-employed staff, including teachers and school principals, are active Hamas members, some of whom were directly involved in the Palestinian terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, while many others openly celebrated it.
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Man Who Scaled London’s ‘Big Ben’ Clock Tower With Palestinian Flag Appears in Court
A man with a Palestinian flag sits on the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, next to Houses of Parliament, in London, Britain, March 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hannah McKay
A man who climbed part way up the “Big Ben” clock tower at London’s Palace of Westminster early on Saturday and stayed there all day as part of a pro-Palestinian protest appeared in court on Monday.
Clutching a Palestinian flag, Daniel Day, 29, scaled 25 meters (82 feet) up the building, officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, at about 7:20 am on Saturday, remaining there for 16 hours until agreeing to come down, his lawyer and prosecutors told London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
He was subsequently charged by police with climbing and remaining on the tower which created “a risk or caused serious harm to the public,” and also trespassing on a protected site.
Prosecutors said Day’s actions had led to serious disruption in that area of central London with roads closed and buses diverted, and the cancellation of parliamentary tours had cost 25,000 pounds ($32,300).
Day’s lawyer said he would plead not guilty to the first charge, saying his action was designed to spread awareness regarding the situation in Gaza and Britain’s response to it.
The second charge of trespass requires the authorization of the attorney general, and so the case was adjourned until March 17 for a decision to be made.
Day, from a seaside town in eastern England, was remanded in custody, with his supporters clapping and shouting “Hero” and “Free Palestine” as he was led away.
Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of parliament’s House of Commons, which is also located in the Palace of Westminster, said he had asked for a review of the incident.
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