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Sean Durns

Sean Durns

Sean Durns is a senior research analyst for CAMERA, the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

Like Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, Hezbollah calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. And like them, Hezbollah is often described as merely a “militant group” as opposed to the more accurate “terrorist organization.”
In contrast to its numerous reports on the Israeli elections, the newspaper has continued to neglect Palestinian politics.
With the growing concern over anti-Semitism in the United States, the media’s failures are worse than inexplicable—they’re unacceptable.
Such journalistic “framing” avoids examining hostility to the Jewish state as a gateway to renewed hatred of the Jewish people.
When they’re not getting a press pass, anti-Semites are getting coddled.
A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. And this particular picture is worth more than the thousands of words and images that the paper has produced in its pathetic “reporting” on UNRWA.
Readers should welcome the newspaper’s sudden, if belated, attention to the draconian measures employed by Palestinian leaders against their own people.
The paper, it seems, has its narrative. And it isn’t going to let facts get in its way.
Those watching the HBO film are presented with superficial history and images, with much of the real story left on the cutting-room floor.
Details are missing in the magazine’s Aug. 9 dispatch (“For Trump and Co., Few Palestinians Count as Refugees”), which omits UNRWA employees praising Hitler and Hamas, and calling to murder Jews.
Many Western media outlets ignore stories that depict either Israeli suffering or Palestinian independent agency, preferring instead narrative-based reporting that depicts the former as aggressors and the latter as perennial victims.
Although many reporters have uncritically repeated Hamas’s false claim that the “Great Return March” is nonviolent, photographic and video evidence has shown several protesters carrying firearms, explosives, Molotov cocktails and other weapons.