The Bias of Verification: How the Media Trusts Terrorists But Questions the IDF

Hamas terrorists. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Trusting someone is tricky — because it isn’t automatically clear if they are telling the truth or not. To assess reliability, one usually takes into account their history, relationships, and values.

But when it comes to coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, media outlets ignore this tried-and-tested method. They take as gospel everything they hear from the terrorists, whose Jihad is built on lies, while questioning the validity of what the army of a democratic state says.