It is no wonder that naïve students at leading universities protest against Israel—they need only turn to their iPhones to see a flood of biased, anti-Israel reporting. The less technically inclined can turn on their television to see, as I did, CNN’s Anderson Cooper coin a new portmanteau “militant-terrorist”—apparently he was so used to saying Hamas militant that when his teleprompter said Hamas terrorist he stumbled. (For the record, George Washington and the Minutemen were militants; Hamas, like ISIS, are terrorists.)

A thousand body bags is not good visual television—the heinous killings and mutilations are too graphic, even for TV. In contrast, rubble from a bombed out Hamas headquarters building is just what a television news channel ordered.

When Hamas reported that Israeli bombs killed over 500 civilians at a Gaza hospital the media shouted at the top of its lungs to vilify Israel. When this tragedy was traced back to Islamic Jihad, the media barely whispered a retraction or update.

Most recently, Egypt’s reluctance to provide shelter to their fellow Arabs, coupled with Israel’s need to exercise security-based caution in allowing trailers to enter Gaza, resulted in delays. Of course the media blames Israel for prudently wanting to inspect all that enters Gaza from Egypt.

Am Yisrael Chai.

Carl A. Singer
Passaic