Everything being reported out of Gaza is, almost by definition, Hamas propaganda.
To be fair–not that I am inclined to be–one could argue that this is a necessary consequence of a basic reality: Hamas runs Gaza, and as a terrorist organization, it has a policy of killing anybody who crosses it–including fellow Palestinians. Honest reporting from Gaza will get you killed, so there is no such thing as honest reporting.
Welcome to the BBC… pic.twitter.com/FqvRSVhH83
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 26, 2025
On the other hand, Pravda Media’s way of dealing with this reality is to become megaphones for Hamas. Hamas provides every casualty number, and those numbers are whitewashed as coming from the “Gaza Health Ministry,” not “Hamas.” The distinction is obvious–“Gaza Health Ministry” sounds as if it were an independent bureaucratic organization, not the mouthpiece of a terrorist group.
“Fun” Fact:
This “Gazan journalist” is just another Nazi whose idea of “reliable reporting” includes — but isn’t limited to — praising Hitler, glorifying the Holocaust, and calling to repeat it.Naturally, he was hired by The New York Times — because Western outlets apparently… https://t.co/fODuY9mRrb pic.twitter.com/8rIVTFa22t
— Nazi Hunters (@HuntersOfNazis) July 4, 2025
The Associated Press employs photographers who participated in the October 7th massacre. The New York Times employs an actual Nazi sympathizer to do its front-page reporting from Gaza. When his social media posts praising Hitler were exposed, the Times apologized not for employing a Nazi but for his violating their social media guidelines.
NY Times hires Hitler-loving journalist to cover Israel-Hamas War.
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— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) October 28, 2023
And the BBC? It commissioned and aired a documentary that featured a Hamas official’s child as the poster boy for surviving the war–without revealing that its subject was a child of Hamas.
BBC Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose child narrator was son of Hamas official, review finds https://t.co/0YkaPtGUX5
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 14, 2025
Again, the distinction matters. The documentary filmmakers collaborated with Hamas, just as the Associated Press did for years, as they shared offices with Hamas officials in Gaza without revealing that fact. When terrorists with guns are escorting you to tell the story about life in Gaza, the least that viewers should know is that the propaganda you are pushing out is co-produced by the terrorists.
I wrote about the documentary when it came out, and subsequently, when the BBC pulled it down after an international backlash.
BBC pulls Gaza film as it carries out checks over Hamas links https://t.co/smYaGndXF1
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 21, 2025
Now, after months of investigation, the BBC is admitting the obvious, although still avoiding the corollary: the documentary didn’t meet its standards. They still haven’t admitted or confronted the fact that everything coming out of Gaza is propaganda pushed by Hamas, just that, when they are exposed for doing it in any particular case, they need to apologize for it. They still maintain that Hamas had nothing to do with the content–a contention so absurd that it hardly bears consideration.
Over the last hour or so, we’ve been picking through the 30-page report into the documentary. Here are the key takeaways:
- Failure to disclose the narrator’s father’s position in Hamas “was a breach of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines, and specifically a breach of Guideline 3.3.17 on Accuracy, which deals with misleading audiences”
- This is the only breach of the BBC’s editorial guidelines found by the report
- Three members of the production company, Hoyo Films, knew of the father’s position at the time the programme was first broadcast, but not anyone within the BBC
- In light of Hoyo Films not bringing this to the BBC’s attention, the production company is “the party with most responsibility for this failure”
- However, Hoyo Films has not “intentionally misled” the BBC, and it has been “consistently transparent” that it made a mistake and should have made the corporation aware, despite believing the father’s role was a “civilian or technocratic one, as opposed to a political or military position in Hamas”
- The BBC also bears “some responsibility” for “not being sufficiently proactive” in the early stages of the project, and for a “lack of critical oversight of unanswered or partially answered questions”
- There is no evidence that the narrator’s father or family “influenced the content of the programme in any way”
Every organization involved in Gaza is corrupt. The UNRWA employs many of the terrorists who committed atrocities on October 7th; its doctors and teachers held some of the hostages. Its “Special Rapporteur” is a grotesque antisemite who claims that capitalism and settler colonialism are the cause of the war, not the terrorism of Hamas.
A recent U.N. Human Rights Council report engages in Ivy League grad student-level idiocy to blame the war in Gaza on capitalism. https://t.co/Zs45i4x24J
— reason (@reason) July 14, 2025
The UN condemns Israel for war crimes, without noting that civilian infrastructure is being destroyed and civilians killed because Hamas hides in hospitals, schools, and UNRWA facilities–and hides behind civilians as they fire on Israeli soldiers. That is a war crime, by the way, but the UN blames Israel for not allowing its soldiers to be killed.
Meet #Hamas journalists working for @AP and @Reuters from #Gaza.
A video shows Reuters and AP journalist Ashraf Amra laughing at footage of an IDF soldier being lynched.
Journalists working for Reuters, AP and other media outlets were present with Hamas terrorists at the… pic.twitter.com/hkZBRDVw71
— Noor Dahri – نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 (@dahrinoor2) January 9, 2024
I don’t know the solution to the problem of journalists being under the thumb of Hamas. Reporting from Gaza is, under the current circumstances, impossible without getting protection from one side or the other in the conflict. But I do know that we are being misled by every news organization that collaborates with Hamas.
“I watched as the goal of mainstream journalism shifted from describing reality to ushering readers to the correct political conclusion.” https://t.co/Xehr5BwbAp
— James Hirsen (@thejimjams) July 14, 2025
And it is hard to conclude anything other than that the Pravda Media is just fine with lying because they actually agree with Hamas. Newsrooms erupt with angry reporters whenever the ideological preferences of reporters are not reflected in stories.
Sometimes it seems that nothing we are being told is real. That’s not quite true, of course. It’s just that, often enough, we don’t know when they are lying and when they are not.
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