“Was he still a ‘car driver’ when he exited his vehicle and stabbed Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv?”
By World Israel News Staff
In its latest display of media bias, CNN reported on a terror attack in Tel Aviv by noting that “the driver of a car,” and not a Palestinian terrorist, rammed into pedestrians before being fatally shot by a civilian. The article headline, which referred to the terrorist as a “suspect”, made no mention of the 8 Israelis injured in the attack.
The headline of the article reads: “Hear how civilian killed suspect in Tel Aviv car ramming and stabbing attack.”
An earlier article by the outlet also characterized the terrorist as a “car driver”. Honest Reporting took to Twitter to ask the rhetorical question: “Was he still a ‘car driver’ when he exited his vehicle and stabbed Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv?”
The article follows a slew of similar examples of media bias from much of the mainstream media.
As Honest Reporting noted, The New York Times referred to the Tel Aviv attack and the launching of rockets from Gaza as “tit-for-tat violence” following Israel’s operation in Jenin, thereby drawing a moral equivalence between the IDF’s targeted counter-terror efforts and indiscriminate acts of Palestinian terror.
Forbes called the IDF’s Jenin operation an “assault” while the Washington Post referred to it as an “invasion.” The New York Times hailed Jenin for being a “bastion of Palestinian armed struggle” where an “ethos of defiance” reigns.
Not one of the articles mentioned that 50 terror attacks against Israelis in the past year alone were carried out by Jenin-based terrorists.
But the most heinous reporting of all was when a BBC anchor told former prime minister Naftali Bennett that “Israeli forces are happy to kill children.”
Bennett corrected Gadgil and clarified that the slain young men were terrorists and that they “held responsibility” for choosing to arm themselves and fire at IDF troops.
But Gadgil doubled down on the narrative that the Israeli army specifically aims to murder kids, and failing to differentiate between adolescent gunmen firing at troops and small, elementary-school age children.
“Terrorists, but children. The Israeli forces are happy to kill children,” Gadgil repeated, then looked at Bennett expectantly, without asking a question.
Bennett appeared to be taken aback by her comment, saying it was “quite remarkable that you’d say that, because they’re killing us.
“If there’s a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist that’s firing at your family, Anjana, what is he?”
Gadgil countered that adolescent armed terrorists were defined as “children” by the United Nations, but failed to acknowledge that such a definition would make the Palestinians guilty of war crimes for utilizing child soldiers.