A Gaza-based producer for CBS News praised by higher-ups for his “resolve” has a history of denigrating Israel on social media, calling into question the publication’s potential bias against the Jewish state amid uproar over recent treatment of Jewish anchor Tony Dokoupil. 

According to social media posts unearthed by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis (CAMERA), Marwan Al-Ghoul has “liked” various comments on social media that refer to Jews as “Nazis” and “murderers.” He has also penned lengthy screeds on social media which gush about the potential “demise” of the United States and Europe. 

In 2022, Al-Ghoul “liked” a Facebook comment claiming Israeli Jews “are Nazi Zionist murderers whose crimes are silenced, covered for by the US and international complicity. The date of holding them accountable will reach them one day and our children do not forget.”

That same year, the CBS News producer “liked” a Facebook comment about Israeli Jews that read, “By no means do they count as human, these are monsters in a human body.”

In 2017, as Hamas fired rockets at Israel in response to the US recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, Al-Ghoul wrote that Gaza’s civilians should join the “permanent resistance” against the Jewish state. 

In 2018, he wrote that “there is no doubt that the United States of America is the greatest empire in the world and because Israel is its offspring and industry, it will not be able to breathe even one day if the American empire is gone. And because it is the year of God in his creation, America and Israel are about to go down, but when?”

In May 2022, Al-Ghoul openly questioned, “Are the Jews human like us?”

CBS has recently received criticism over its treatment of Jewish anchor Tony Dokoupil, arguing that his tough on-air questions directed at Ta-Nehisi Coates regarding his new book, The Message, were biased and did not meet “editorial standards.” Dokoupil directly challenged Coates’s assertions that the Jewish state was practicing “apartheid” against Palestinians and claimed the writer excluded important context about Israel’s security concerns. 

Dokoupil’s pointed questioning of Coates drew outrage from CBS News staffers and the broader media landscape. Staffers demanded that the CBS brass punish Dokoupil for his supposedly “biased” line of questioning against Coates. Dokoupil was subsequently dragged into a meeting with the outlet’s “Race and Culture Unit” in which he was criticized for his tone, phrasing, and body language. 

With a brighter spotlight now on CBS over its coverage of Israel, Al-Ghoul’s previous social media commentary may call into question the accuracy and fairness of his work. Many journalists from the Palestinian territories have previously exhibited a consistent anti-Israel bias in their reporting, even parroting narratives from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

According to a Jewish Insider report from earlier this year, one-third of the Palestinian journalists listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists as being killed in the war in Gaza were connected to terrorist groups. There is no evidence that Al-Ghoul has any such connection.

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A building at Georgetown University in Washington, DC was vandalized with pro-terrorist graffiti in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to the school.

The pro-Hamas and anti-American graffiti was discovered on the Rafik B. Hariri Building. The messages were “pertaining to the war in Gaza,” according to a message sent to the campus community by the university’s associate vice president of public safety along with its chief diversity officer and vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

“We condemn this act and are coordinating with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in the investigation of this crime,” the message continued. “This incident, and a similar act that occurred on campus on Sept. 20, 2024, are unacceptable and are contrary to our values as a university community. Anyone found responsible will be held accountable.”

The vandalism included graffiti that read “US Army = Terror org” and inverted red triangles. The inverted red triangle has become a common symbol at pro-Hamas rallies. The Palestinian terrorist group, which rules Gaza, has used inverted red triangles in its propaganda videos to indicate Israeli targets about to be attacked. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), “the red triangle is now used to represent Hamas itself and glorify its use of violence.”

The building that was vandalized is named after Rafik. B Harari, a former prime minister of Lebanon who was assassinated by a Hezbollah suicide bomber in Beirut in 2005.

An Instagram account called GeorgetownIntifada posted pictures of the vandalism with the caption, “NO WAR CRIMINALS ON CAMPUS,” and added, “THE US ARMY IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.”

The group also claimed the vandalism was done by “autonomous actors.”

Jewish on Campus, a group that documents anti-Jewish incidents on college campuses, asked rhetorically on X/Twitter, “When our campuses look like this, how are Jewish and Israeli students meant to be safe?”

“Antisemitism is rising. Wake up,” it added.

ADL Regional Director Meredith Weisel wrote in a statement that it is “horrifying that students woke up this morning and were faced with pro-terror graffiti defacing Georgetown University’s Business School. The red triangle is a pro-terror symbol that in some cases signifies support for violent Palestinian resistance against Israel. This hate has no place anywhere and certainly not on a college campus.”

She continued, “Jewish students, and all students, deserve to feel safe in their place of learning.”

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war — when Hamas invaded Israel, killed 1,200 people, and took 251 hostages last Oct. 7 — college campuses have become a hotbed of anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests. In the spring, “Gaza solidarity encampments” began to pop up on campuses across the country. The Algemeiner documented dozens of statements just within the first week of the movement that were explicitly pro-terrorist.

Some encampments had to be forcefully removed after protesters got violent, invaded school buildings, and/or resisted the police when asked to disperse.

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Israel‘s defense minister on Wednesday called French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ban Israeli firms from exhibiting at a naval arms show “a disgrace” and accused Paris of implementing a hostile policy towards the Jewish people.

The decision to bar Israeli firms is the latest incident in a row fueled by the Macron government’s unease over Israel‘s conduct in the wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah Lebanon.

It came after French efforts to secure a truce in the conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon foundered and as Israel carries out more airstrikes on targets in the country.

“French President Macron’s actions are a disgrace to the French nation and the values of the free world, which he claims to uphold,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant posted on X.

“France has adopted, and is consistently implementing, a hostile policy towards the Jewish people. We will continue defending our nation against enemies on 7 different fronts, and fighting for our future — with or without France.”

French officials have repeatedly said that Paris is committed to Israel‘s security and point out that its military helped defend Israel after Iranian attacks in April and earlier this month.

Euronaval, organizer of the event set to take place in Paris from Nov. 4-7, said in a statement that the French government had informed it on Tuesday that Israeli delegations were not allowed to exhibit stands or show equipment, but could attend the trade show. The decision affected seven firms, it said.

It is the second time this year that France has banned Israeli firms from a major defense show. In May, France said conditions were not right for Israel to participate in the Eurosatory military trade show when Macron was calling for Israel to cease operations in Gaza, the enclave ruled by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

“These measures not only harm relations between our two countries, but also the bonds of trust that they have built, and thus cast doubt on France’s ability to play a leading role on the diplomatic scene to promote peace and stability in the Middle East,” the Israeli embassy said in a statement.

DIPLOMATIC SPARRING

Israeli forces have carried out numerous air strikes and a ground incursion targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, causing civilian casualties and leading Western allies, including France, to call for an immediate ceasefire.

Diplomatic sparring between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Macron has increased in recent weeks after Paris had worked with Washington to secure a 21-day truce that would then open the door to negotiations on a long-term diplomatic solution.

France and the United States were caught by surprise last month when Israel launched strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Netanyahu has rejected a unilateral ceasefire that fails to stop Hezbollah, whose stated goal is to destroy the Jewish state, from rearming and regrouping. France has sought to continue to work on a diplomatic resolution.

Macron has irked Netanyahu several times, notably as United Nations peacekeeping forces have been caught in Israeli crossfire in southern Lebanon.

France, with nearly 700 troops in the 10,000-strong UNIFIL peacekeeping force, is one of the main European contributors alongside Italy and Spain.

Macron has called for an end to the supply to Israel of offensive weapons used in Gaza.

On Tuesday, Macron told a cabinet meeting that Netanyahu should not forget that Israel was created by a UN decision, according to a French official.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot sought to downplay the comments, saying they had been general remarks reminding Israel of the importance of respecting the UN charter.

But Netanyahu’s office said in response that Israel was established through “the War of Independence with the blood of our heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including from the Vichy regime in France” — referring to the French government that had collaborated with Nazi Germany.

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