Thread by @DrewHolden360

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A barbaric terrorist attack that killed over a thousand Israelis brought out the worst from the mainstream media. I want to walk you through some really terrible examples. @FreeBeacon

Start here ⤵️ freebeacon.com/media/media-bi…

A lot of outlets essentially said that Israel had it coming.

That included @washingtonpost, who take victim blaming to the next level with this one. Just give it a read.

I asked this earlier this week but again: if you didn’t have the names on them, could you tell which is from @washingtonpost and which is from Hamas?

@NBCNews also seemed to run with Hamas talking points.

@NPR led off this conversation with a stirring defense of the terrorist’s decision to kill innocent people. See for yourself.

As the dead were still being counted, @nytimes rushed to explain how and why some Gazans see the barbarism as “justified”

@nytimes even had an inconceivable stealth edit on another piece. After calling the Hamas terrorists who gunned down innocent women and children “terrorists,” they changed the wording, as @greg_price11 pointed out

@tomselliott has a handy supercut with some more egregious examples:

Then there were the individual journalists like @m7mdkurd who justified the violence, and others like @KarenAttiah who expressed sympathy for terrorism as a form of resistance. (H/t @megynkelly)

This isn’t the first time the media have produced slanted coverage about Israel. When Hamas’s rocket bombardment in 2021 led to an Israeli response, the @nytimes dedicated its front page to some of the victims, without including that Hamas had gotten them killed. (H/t @BA_Fogel)

And the rest of the press, led by @MSNBC and @NBCNews struck a similar note as we’re seeing today: that Israel is evil and deserves what it gets at the hands of terrorists.

H/T’s @theMRC and @NickFondacaro

@omriceren is still right about this one. @washingtonpost

Hell, @NBCNews was there in Gaza City for the Hamas victory parade in 2021. (H/t @MarinaMedvin)

Much has (rightly) been made about the horrible statements and sentiments around what’s happening in Israel - Democrats on the Hill, diversity activists who cheerlead terrorism, elite universities, etc. We can’t leave the press out of that discussion.

And it’ll only get worse.