Los Angeles-born Rachel Lester tells JNS that winning global public opinion requires more effective storytelling, diverse voices and discipline on social media.
Media Bias
The Committee to Protect Journalists removed six names between March 29 and May 7. All six were actually “terror combatants.”
“The New York Times” and its enablers are counting on the public’s short attention span and “suicidal empathy” of liberal Jews to bury Nicholas Kristof’s lie about rapist dogs in Israel.
There is another definition of what it means to be a bad actor.
“The New York Times” publication of absurd blood libels and conspiracies requires more than polite protests. Those who defend it or won’t shame and shun it are also to blame.
It has effectively framed the ”genocide” allegation against Israel—a new iteration of the ancient medieval blood libel and a form of Holocaust inversion—as fact.
The human mind is built to respond to images and narrative, not to cross-reference satellite data and dig for facts.
International Holocaust Memorial Day cannot be uncomplicatedly marked in the way that it is intended: as a commemoration of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews for the sole reason that they were Jews.
After the Hamas massacre of October 7, a BBC team filmed the destroyed home of an Israeli family—without their consent. Now the British broadcaster is paying compensation. The case is emblematic of a deeper problem in international reporting on Israel.
“The Gaza Lie. Exposed,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry calls the revelation after fake “Gazan” accounts were revealed to be operating from Pakistan to the UK.
