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| When it comes to Israel, it's the media, stupid |
| 2026-11-14 |
| [AT] How years of relentless, one-sided reporting turned Israel from David into Goliath—and made the good guys the villains of the story. “…there’s a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel.” — Donald Trump (11/8/26) It’s pretty clear that the president thinks one of the reasons the Republicans performed so poorly in the midterms is a growing anti-Israel shift in our country. But instead of sharing the bad news, he should be telling us why that is the case. It’s not fake news. It is what fake news has created. Fake news has molded a narrative of Middle East good guys and bad guys and turned Israel into the dreaded “bad guy.” And make no mistake, perception is everything. Hollywood was very good at pushing the “good guy, bad guy” narrative, too. Think of their cowboy films. They even had their own special way of telling moviegoers who the good guys were. They gave them white hats! Today’s world news media caters very much to the same childish thought process: play the good guys-versus-bad-guys game, and make sure the public knows who the good guys are and who to root for. So how did the media succeed in transforming Israel into the bad guy? Over the course of many years, they made the Mideast conflict about Israel versus the Palestinians, rather than placing that conflict within the wider context of Israel versus many adversaries. It was methodical, relentless reporting with tunnel vision. That’s how the media changed the narrative. That’s how Israel became the much maligned bully on the block. How good guy David became bad guy Goliath. I’m not trying to solve Israel’s public relations problem. It seems beyond repair. The mantra “Palestinian victimhood at the hands of Israel” has become the new world gospel, and I don’t see it going away. We in the Jewish community are told that properly educating the public and even some of our own diaspora is our best bet for the future. But good luck with that. Who wants to be educated when they have already embraced the simplistic narrative they get on the news every day? |
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