How Islamist and Radical-Left Media Spread Lies about Hamas’s Crimes

Readers of Mosaic are likely familiar with the combination of distortion, credulousness, and confusion that characterizes so much of the coverage of the Gaza war in the mainstream press. But far worse is what can be found in what the British journalist John Ware dubs the alternative media—hard-left, obsessively anti-Israel, and usually anti-Semitic outlets that have persistently denied that Hamas slaughtered civilians, raped women, and engaged in other acts of unspeakable barbarity. They take their cues from Hamas itself, which both distributed video of the atrocities and sent its representatives to claim they never happened on the BBC.