It is often said, and rightly so, that those who forget history risk repeating it. This forgetfulness is now a constant in journalism.
In 2022, they said that a Russian spy detained by Poland was a journalist
In March 2022, when Poland arrested a Spanish citizen accused of espionage, many media outlets claimed that the detainee was a journalist and there was a mobilization to demand his release, accusing the Polish justice system of violating his rights. Finally, the detainee turned out to be a fake journalist and was actually a Russian spy, who was dedicated to spying on NATO and Ukraine for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation (GRU). Dictator Putin even went to greet him at Moscow airport when he was exchanged along with other Russian journalists.
As is now the case whenever they commit a manipulation, very few media outlets have been self-critical after claiming that the detainee was a journalist and after unfairly accusing Poland. Many media outlets have not only avoided acknowledging their mistake, but persist in continuing to call those who are not "journalists" .
Now they say that five terrorists eliminated by Israel were journalists
Yesterday, in a targeted strike carried out in Nuseirat, Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated five Islamic Jihad terrorists posing as journalists. The IDF has published a list of Islamic Jihad operatives discovered by Israeli forces during their operations in Gaza, stating: "This list explicitly identified four of the eliminated individuals as members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization."
Despite the evidence, yesterday agencies such as Reuters, Efe and Europa Press and media as influential as the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, Sky News, RTVE, El País, Abc and El Mundo, nsisted on calling the eliminated terrorists "journalists".
The most curious thing is that in its news item, Europa Press affirms that they were "reporters from the Al Quds television network, linked to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)". In turn, the BBC links that channel to Islamic Jihad, a criminal group that participated in the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, an attack that led to the largest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust. In case anyone is unaware of this fact, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are listed as terrorist groups by the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, among other countries.
An infamous bias that is only directed against one democratic country: Israel
Once again, what we have is an abnormal situation in which agencies and media outlets that call themselves serious trust information published by the terrorists themselves (remember that Hamas is the organization behind the government of the Gaza Strip and controls all the information that comes out of there) but they do not trust data published by a democratic country, such as Israel, a country where there is freedom of the press. To give us an idea, it is as if a media outlet gave more credibility to a group of criminals than to a police department in a democratic country, as if they believed that criminals are capable of murder but are not capable of lying.
This media bias has been a constant in some media outlets against Israel, which happens to be the only Jewish state in the world. There is no other democratic country that suffers from a similar phenomenon, a bias in which some media outlets prefer to believe bloodthirsty anti-Semitic criminals than a country that struggles to defend itself from them after repeatedly suffering their attacks. If we don't call that "anti-Semitism," then how do we qualify it?
The same media that accuse Twitter of 'disinformation'
The most ironic thing is that among these traditional media it is common to read and hear criticism of social networks such as Twitter under the accusation of "disinformation", claiming that our trust should be placed in these traditional media and not in any information that reaches us through other channels, attributing to themselves the monopoly of informative rigor. But if we trust them, we would have to believe that a spy and five terrorists were journalists, even if two democratic countries acted against them because they had very solid reasons to do so.
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Photo: Said Khatib / AFP. Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on March 2, 2023.
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