Americas Hamas helpers, inflammatory, anti-cop coverage and other commentary

Mideast desk: America’s Hamas HelpersA new lawsuit reveals “a fair amount of evidence” that groups like Students for Justice in Palestine “aren’t merely pro-Hamas in outlook but that they coordinate their messaging and actions with Hamas,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel.SJP posted “We are back!!” on its long-dormant Instagram three minutes before the butchery began; other groups “named in the suit also echoed Hamas’s public pronouncements.” “The examples are endless,” and the claims of material support for terror “will be adjudicated in court” where “the defendants and their supporters will argue that these groups’ actions are permitted under the law.” But “whatever happens in the courtroom, this lawsuit should be required reading for all the reporters, pundits, activists, and politicians who have so shamelessly whitewashed anti-Semitism in America since Oct.

7.”Media watch: Inflammatory, Anti-Cop Coverage“There was virtually no chance for a conscientious New Yorker to get an accurate story about the” incident last year when police shot Derrell Mickles after he brandished a knife in the subway “if their media diet consisted of The New York Times, public radio” and social media, moans Mike Pesca at The Free Press.The Times’ coverage insisted “it was a story about a fare evader who happened to have a knife, rather than about an aggressive knife-wielder who happened to be evading a fare.” Meanwhile, WNYC wrongly reported that it was legal for Mickles “to carry the knife he had,” though that was “demonstrably false.” Sadly, “the inherent bias of the legacy media,” make it tough to get “accurate reporting on important issues . . .

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