Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce (OJC) CEO Duvi Honig unloaded on the American leftist media for repeatedly behaving as apologists for Hamas and jihadi radicals seeking to smear the state of Israel. He didn’t mince any words. 
The OJC is a “global umbrella” organization that “unites all factions of the global Jewish community’s business sphere – making an immense contribution to both the community’s businesses and professionals, and the business world at large,” according to its website.
Honig spoke to me at the iconic King David Hotel in Jerusalem during my trip with Newsmax’s delegation to Israel.
When asked about his take on how outlets like The New York Times and CNN have continued to propagate falsehoods and gaslighting that benefitted Hamas’s anti-Semitic agenda, Honig answered in two words, “Hate blinds.”
The Times, in particular, recently underwent massive embarrassment for pushing a false story of an emaciated child supposedly starving in Gaza to lambast the Jewish State when it later came to light that the child had “cerebral palsy” that was the root cause of his diminished appearance. This isn’t the first time that The Times has done Hamas’s propaganda work for them. Honig took the proverbial gloves off: “I think at this time [The Times] should be identified as a terrorist organization.”
CNN analyst Kimberly Dozier also shocked viewers when she blurted out on CNN This Morning August 12 that it “doesn’t matter” that so-called Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was a radical Hamas operative and condemned the Israeli Defense Forces anyway for killing him. Honig stated that Dozier should be “condemned” for her absurd comments over the airwaves. “I think this woman should be fired. I think this woman is dangerous for journalists,” He continued: “This should be a discussion between journalists who should say these words: ‘Do we feel safe being a journalist if terrorists use our uniform and hide in it and hide behind it? How can we feel safe in our job now? These terrorists are endangering us by using our uniforms.”
Rebutting Dozier’s argument, Honig argued that “of course” Israel should kill these Hamas terrorists disguising themselves as journalists, precisely because their existence puts legitimate journalists and reporters in mortal danger. “You’d never know who to trust,” Honig stated. As for Dozier’s dismissal of al-Sharif being a Hamas operative while disguising himself as a journalist, Honig rebuked her outright:
How dare she say it and not care for the safety of her brother and sister reporters? She’s endangering them!
Apparently that was lost on Dozier.
Flashback: CNN Analyst: 'Doesn't Matter' If He Was A Hamas Operative,' IDF Wrong To Kill a 'Journalist'
Outlets that continue to cosplay as Hamas’s spokespeople, said Honig, “are instigating violence and hate.” Honig noted that the unspoken victims of this incessant anti-Israel propaganda are in fact the Palestinian people:
They are hurting the Palestinian people, because the Palestinian people are not getting aid and food and at the same time they’re empowering Hamas who shoot them when they try to go to safety and they use them as human shields. They’re strengthening Hamas who are persecuting and stopping the food coming into Gaza and therefore, they’re starving their population.
Hamas, Honig analyzed, “made a half-billion dollars revenue” just on “confiscating food.” So when The Times is pushing false stories as it did with the emaciated child with preexisting health conditions to slam Israel — “who happened to be treated in an Israeli hospital” — Honig asserted that the Jewish people are getting no credit for the humanitarian aid they do provide while simultaneously being falsely accused of human rights abuses. The Israeli Foreign Ministry estimated that approximately 183,000 tons of aid have entered Gaza since May 2025.
"Because of that fake picture [of the emaciated child],” said Honig, the leftist media “is causing famine in Gaza because of them showing Hamas that they can continue stealing the food and get away with it and still have their support just because they hate Jews and because they hate Israel."
I asked Honig what would be his message to the editors and leadership of America’s top newsrooms that continue to make the situation in Gaza worse by elevating Hamas’s talking points and fueling anti-Israel hatred around the world. He was very blunt: “There’s a big saying: Ignorance is bliss. In this case, ignorance is NOT bliss. Ignorance is danger. There’s so much information out there. If you’re looking for the truth, all you have to do is look for the truth.”
And the danger doesn’t just face the Jewish people, concluded Honig, but members of varying faiths such as the Druze people who experienced their own October 7-like massacre at the hands of Islamic extremists in Syria. “They went into the Druze communities and they went into wedding halls, and they murdered the people there. They went into homes and they murdered the children, the mothers — they raped the women,” Honig said. And despite the many military fronts that Israel is already facing in the North and South, as Honig noted, the Jewish State decisively entered Syria and launched airstrikes against Syrian government forces and others who were attacking the Druze people, showcasing its emphasis on humanitarian protection.
But as Honig’s analysis reminds our readers, the anti-Israel activists plaguing American media today won’t give a rip about it.
NewsBusters Associate Editor Nicholas Fondacaro contributed to this report.
