Why do so many of our media find ways of rationalizing/justifying the actions of a murderous terrorist group, and use those rationalizations/justifications to attack Israel for fighting that terrorist group?
Jonas Du’s latest article for the Detroit Free Press delves into this issue by citing Reuters in particular – though, again, it is far from the only media venue guilty of this insanity.
Here is how it begins:
Why Is Reuters Carrying Water for Hamas?
When it comes to the war in Gaza, how is it that the legacy media always defers to the narrative that benefits Hamas? A recent Reuters story illuminates the problem.
Last month, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) produced an internal analysis tracking reports of waste, fraud, and abuse of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
According to that report, between October 2023 and May 2025, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance received 156 notifications of “fraud, waste, and abuse notifications” from its NGO partners in Gaza, amounting to a loss of more than $4.6 million. The key finding was that “for all 156 incidents, partners did not provide any information in their incident reports alleging SG [sanctioned group] or FTO [foreign terrorist organization] involvement,” according to a slideshow of the findings obtained by The Free Press.
But when the analysis was leaked to legacy news organizations, they reported something completely different.
In late July, first Reuters and then CNN reported that the analysis “found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.” ABC later reported that USAID “failed to find any evidence” that Hamas “engaged in widespread diversion of assistance.” Those news organizations didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
There is a world of difference between “notifications” of aid misuse and actual misuse.
Two sources familiar with USAID and its analysis confirmed that the partners’ failure to report terrorist involvement does not mean there is “no evidence” of theft by Hamas. “The report appears to be wholly reliant on self-reporting by UN agencies and NGOs who are extremely reticent to report Hamas interference out of fear of violent retribution by Hamas,” a senior U.S. official familiar with the USAID report told The Free Press.
When the Reuters story was published, “nobody at the highest levels of the USAID administration had seen the report,” said a senior official at the State Department, which oversees USAID. “It was deliberately and intentionally manufactured. . . and distributed to plant a deliberate false narrative.”
As you might guess, there is more. A lot more. Please use the link and read it all.
And remember: this is what Israel deals with every day.
There is no such thing as “never again”. After 58 centuries we should all know better.
