Rachel O'Donoghue
ARTICLES BY: Rachel O'Donoghue
Pager Attack: How the Media Whitewashed Hezbollah Terrorists and Slandered Israel
The pager attack targeting thousands of Hezbollah terrorists -- which Israel is believed to be behind -- stands as one of the most precise, large-scale...
1,500 Breaches of Editorial Guidelines: BBC Excoriated in Scathing Report on Israel-Hamas War Coverage
On December 6,2023, HonestReporting highlighted significant issues with the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, nearly three months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. After multiple...
Why Is the Media Blaming Israel for Stopping Terrorist Attacks in the West Bank?
Since Hamas’ brutal October 7 massacre in southern Israel, another war-front has been simmering in the West Bank. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad cells, operating...
Who Is Dan Bilzerian? The Israel-Obsessed, Jew-Hating Misogynist That Elon Musk Protects
American poker player, businessman, and social media influencer Dan Bilzerian’s recent contributions to the social media platform X have followed a disturbing pattern: a video...
How the Media Distorts the IDF’s Preemptive Strike on Hezbollah
In the early hours of Sunday, Israel initiated a preemptive strike to neutralize an imminent and large-scale drone and rocket attack by Hezbollah. Israeli Air Force jets targeted...
The Philadelphi Corridor: How Hamas Smuggles Terror Into Gaza
Just 300 feet wide and stretching eight miles from Israel’s border to the Mediterranean, the narrow strip separating Egypt and Gaza, known as the Philadelphi...
Many Pro-Hamas ‘Sources’ Used by International Media Outlets Support Terror and Hate Jews
The Associated Press was recently exposed due to its long-running usage of the unreliable eyewitness accounts of the director of Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital, who was unmasked...
The ‘Good Doctor’: AP’s Trusted Source Was a Hamas-Aligned Ally of Ismail Haniyeh
Allegations of a cruel massacre and graphic accounts of the reportedly bloody aftermath were published online by global media within hours of what Israel later...
Media Spreads Anti-Israel Hate — and Accepts Hamas Lies — in Reporting on ‘School’ Attack
On Saturday morning, guided by intelligence from the Military Intelligence Directorate (AMAN) and Shin Bet, the Israeli Air Force executed a precision strike on a Hamas...
Assassinated Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Recast as ‘Moderate’ by Confused Media
There was an unfortunate inevitability to the media’s coverage of the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at a residence in Tehran early Wednesday morning. Reportedly...
Media Sinks To Disgraceful Low in Hezbollah Rocket Attack Coverage
The international media’s coverage of Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attack on July 27 represents another low in reporting on Israel since the current Mideast war began. Here’s a...
New Yorker Columnist: Israelis Are ‘Weaponizing’ Oct. 7 Sexual Violence and ‘Demonizing’ Hamas
The 12-word title of Masha Gessen’s recent offering in The New Yorker hints at the hatchet job that follows. In “What We Know About the Weaponization...
Media’s Casualty Is the Truth as it Spreads Three Damaging Lies About Gaza
“The first casualty of war is the truth.” The late Republican senator Hiram Johnson (CA)’s immortal observation has come to mind more than a few times...
Grotesque Gaza Libel Reprinted by New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, and More
As predictable as it is frustrating, the letter penned by Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, and Salim Yusuf and published in a supposedly respectable medical journal,...
