Foreign Policy

MSNBC national security analyst Jeremy Bash may be a former Democratic CIA official, but that did not stop him from ripping the media on Tuesday’s The 11th Hour for “breathlessly, word for word” repeating Hamas propaganda that the destruction of a Gaza hospital was caused by an Israeli airstrike.

The Daily Show returned to Comedy Central on Monday and proceeded to blame seemingly everybody, but Hamas for the current war going on between it and Israel. Temp host Michael Kosta and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer would blame everybody from Britain to the Arab states seeking normalization deals with Israel to Israel itself to the United States for the carnage, but Hamas itself…

You can’t make this up. Michigan’s pro-Palestine Rep. Rashida Tlaib ostentatiously displays a Palestinian flag outside the door to her office. That gets media coverage. But a couple flags away (she has a few, presumably one being the Michigan state flag) she has, yes indeed, the rainbow LGBTQ flag. And the mainstream media? Silence.

AP fact-checker Philip Marcelo beclowned himself on Friday as he rated a claim that Hamas sympathizers chanted anti-Semitic remarks “false,” not because they didn’t—he admits that they did—but because the clip “is more than two years old.”

Former Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss got more than he bargained for when he showed up at Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday as Maher slapped down his attempt to add “context” to Israel, Hamas, and Gaza.

President Joe Biden managed to clear the lowest of low bars this week by not joining in with the radical left’s attempts to defend or add “context” to Hamas’s savage attack on Israel, but still, this led New York Times columnist David Brooks to hail the idea that “this was one of Joe Biden's best weeks as president” on Friday’s PBS NewsHour.

CNN reporter Nada Bashir has put in Israel in a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation. One hand, Israel is lectured on the need to avoid civilian casualties as if they would otherwise enjoy bombing Palestinians for sport, but on the other hand, she lectures them on Friday’s CNN Newsroom that urging Palestinians to evacuate Northern Gaza is “a war crime.”

Former Al Jazeera producer turned Snopes fact-checker Nur Ibrahim warned on Thursday that discussions of Hamas beheading Israeli babies should be taken with a grain of salt and that “people should be wary of claims that echo Islamophobic rhetoric.”

Professor, activist, and so-called human rights attorney Noura Erakat was welcomed to Katy Tur Reports on Thursday afternoon to accuse the Israelis of war crimes, lament the nation’s existence, “the siege of 16 years” as if just randomly happened, and anti-BDS laws because MSNBC suddenly finds the urge to go all in on both-sideism.

If the fact-checking industry is going to insist that it should be able to throttle social media posts, at the very least, it should fact-check the claims the post is actually making and not straw men because Instagram posts have been deemed misinformation after PolitiFact and the USA Today accused the posters of attributing a 2020 “Death to America” chant in the Iranian parliament to…

In a 2007 op-ed, leftist billionaire George Soros outrageously called on America and Israel to “open the door[s]” to Hamas, and now that clarion call has come back to haunt him. 

MSNBC’s Katy Tur and Senior Fellow of American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Arthur David Miller got their priorities backwards as they wondered on Tuesday how a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians can happen “with the current makeup of the Israeli government.”

A radical pro-Hamas group funded by leftist billionaire George Soros offered a statement of support for the abhorrent, genocidal terrorist attacks on Israel.

For the Tuesday edition of CBS Mornings, foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab did a profile on Hamas and while acknowledging the organization seeks to eliminate Israel, hailed their “sheer determination,” as if they were a scrappy football team, and its leader's “personal” revenge against Israel.’