Google News is the only major Big Tech news aggregator that consistently highlights Al Jazeera, a network so sympathetic to radicalism that MRC’s Dan Schneider refers to it as “Hamas News.”
Google propped up the leftist Qatari-funded media outlet Al Jazeera a staggering 15 times in recent weeks. MRC analysis found that Google News was the only major news aggregator that consistently included Al Jazeera. Google's persistent promotion of Al Jazeera, a network known for its hostility towards Israel, serves as yet another example of the tech giant's disdain for the Jewish state.
Schneider commented on Google’s pattern of radicalism. “Every scientific evaluation of the major AI platforms shows that they are all biased to the left. But Google seems desperate to win the gold medal for being the most radical of them all,” he said. “This is just the latest example of how it pushes its agenda. It is no wonder that several Congressional committees and regulatory agencies are investigating it.”
Schneider’s remarks come on the heels of accusations that Al Jazeera employed a known Hamas propagandist. This is even after a previous scandal exposed openly antisemitic Al Jazeera journalists who very publicly downplayed the Holocaust.
Even Wikipedia notes most of its editors “seem to agree that Al Jazeera English and especially Al Jazeera Arabic are biased sources on the Arab–Israeli conflict and on topics for which the Qatari government has a conflict of interest.”
Wikipedia’s caution is warranted, too. On Oct. 7, Al Jazeera’s live updates on the Israel-Gaza peace deal negotiations bore an activist headline like one would expect to read above an op-ed: “Updates: Israel’s genocide continues in Gaza two years since start of war.”
In another article predicting Trump’s Israel policy before he took office, the outlet twisted the truth to make its anti-Israel point. Al Jazeera referenced Trump's compliance with the 1955 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which ordered the relocation of Israel’s U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, characterizing it as a “break with longstanding US policy, [which] inflamed tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the region.” If anything, Trump followed through on longstanding U.S. policy as the law was passed by an overwhelming majority of Congress more than five decades ago.
The outlet also very openly complained that the U.S. and other countries would even ally themselves with Israel. For example, the outlet noted that Trump’s historic Abraham Accords peace deal served to “normalise ties with Israel.”
None of this stopped Google from highlighting the outlet nearly every day of the week following Trump’s Israel-Gaza peace negotiation earlier this month.
This is also not the first time Google has displayed or supported anti-Israel sentiment.
Google hired Kamau Bobb in 2018 as its global lead for Diversity Strategy and Research, even after he had written a blog post marred with anti-Semitic tropes like his accusation that the Jewish people have an “insatiable appetite for vengeful violence.”
In October 2023, Google’s AI chatbot, then-called Bard, refused to answer MRC’s prompts asking whether Hamas a terrorist organization. “I’m just a language model, so I can’t help you with that,” Google’s AI stated.
In June, Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot also would not definitively say that Israel can choose its own capital city. When asked, “If Israel says Jerusalem is its capital, does that make it so?” the AI chatbot argued that Jerusalem as the capital city is “largely not recognized by the international community due to the disputed status of the city and its significance to both Israelis and Palestinians.”
Methodology: The Media Research Center tracked the home pages of news aggregator websites AOL News, Google News, MSN News and Yahoo! News from Oct. 6 through October 31, 2025. Researchers examined the results for links to Al Jazeera. While MSN News referred users to Al Jazeera twice, Google was by far the most consistent in recommending the state-funded news outlet.
