Media Matters
Iran launched missiles at Israel, after weeks of incessant rocket and drone fire on Israel by its terror proxy Hezbollah, which rejected a U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement last week that was agreed to by the Israeli and Lebanese governments. Iran's targeting civilians with missiles is a war crime. Hamas continues to hold the population of Gaza hostage and remains armed. Meanwhile, the homepage of the most influential news outlet on earth, the New York Times, top three stories were about Israel on Sunday. Have you heard of a communications scholar named Maxwell McCombs? His core finding is simple: The press is not very good at telling people what to think. It is extraordinarily good, however, at telling people what to think ABOUT. And what the New York Times has decided you should think about, every single day, multiple times a day, forever and always, is Israel. You cannot saturate the most influential newsroom in the English language with relentless coverage of one small country and then act surprised when the public becomes similarly hyper-fixated with it. The animosity we constantly see is the predictable output of editorial selection, repeated daily, until it becomes the background music of how people think about the Jewish state. https://linktr.ee/EFischbergerThe West's Bizarre Coverage of the Iran War (Gatestone)
A BBC presenter who criticised its coverage of Hamas was sacked for a breach of impartiality. Yet at BBC Arabic, staff, freelancers or contributors who expressed sympathy for Hamas or promoted antisemitism on social media - most weren't fired.NBC, ABC, NPR Omit Reason for Israel’s Intensified Strikes in Lebanon https://www.camera.org/article/nbc-abc-npr-omit-reason-for-israels-intensified-strikes-in-lebanon/, The Media's Inversion of Hezbollah's War Against Israel. https://spencerguard.substack.com/p/the-medias-inversion-of-hezbollahs----------------------------------------
IRAN
Iran insists on a full “regional” ceasefire, in other words: a deal that protects Hamas and Hezbollah from Israeli self defense. Student Protests have resumed in Iran. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202606074330Iranian Influence Campaign Targeting Arab Society in Israel Ahead of Elections https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/12/29/iranian-influence-operation-targeting-israeli-arabs-exposed/
How Chinese Satellites Support Iran - (Hudson Institute)Meta’s AI support bot happily handed Instagram accounts to pro-Iran-govt hackers https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/06/metas-ai-support-bot-happily-handed-instagram-accounts-to-hackersLEBANON
Europe pours millions into Lebanon as Hezbollah rejects ceasefire https://worldisraelnews.com/europe-pours-millions-into-lebanon-as-hezbollah-rejects-ceasefire/We are now entering the third month of President Donald Trump’s “two week” ceasefire. As Hezbollah controls the Lebanese parliament, Hezbollah is controlled by Iran, and in its manifestos has publically stated it will never honor a ceasefire with Israel, an actual end to hostilities seems unlikely. Lebanese president accuses Iran of using his country as a bargaining chip in peace talks with the US https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/05/middleeast/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-peace-intlHizbullah fighters have embedded themselves inside the Christian neighborhood of Tyre, after fleeing other areas of the southern Lebanese city. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-898130PALESTINIANS
Flotilla Fabulists: How ‘Activists’ Manufacture Atrocity Propaganda https://honestreporting.com/flotilla-fabulists-how-activists-manufacture-atrocity-propaganda/ see also https://honestreporting.com/gaza-flotilla-the-global-outrage-that-stopped-at-libyas-border/
The Jewish state has spent decades taking risks for peace. The harder question is why so few are willing to ask anything comparable of the Palestinians https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/the-question-jeremy-ben-ami-refusesIsrael Has Contained Hamas (Ynet News)The Barghouti Myth: How the World Is Being Asked to Canonize a Dynasty of Violence (Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs)QATAR
Qatar has gone significantly further than supporting Arab-language education, as QFI now claims is its goal, and has instead undertaken efforts to exercise influence over social studies, science, technology, art and mathematics curricula, activism and educational professional development programs — and deliberately engaged in efforts to shield its work and influence, using the credibility of host organizations to which it provided funding.https://isgap.org/follow-the-money/, https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/isgap-report-qatar-influence-campaign-u-s-education/, Mapping Qatar's $400 Billion Footprint in the U.S. (Foundation for Defense of Democracies), https://gerardfilitti.substack.com/p/the-retreat-that-wasnt-qatars-education
SYRIA
UK
Far-left anti-Israel podcasters Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur banned from entering Britain ahead of scheduled appearance. https://worldisraelnews.com/israel-hating-podcasters-barred-from-britain-over-antisemitism/The President of the Oxford Union Debating Society, Arwa Elrayess, stated that Hamas members would one day be "lauded as heroes" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78k22z2n94oAnother police scandal: National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) published a now deleted extremist screed ostensibly to confront anti-Muslim hatred. The paper branded Zionism as "one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred" and labeled the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a "Zionist terrorist group". It also defended Hamas. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/06/britains-muslim-police-association-defends-hamas/UN
UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West. https://unwatch.org/report-u-n-experts-accepted-funding-from-china-russia-qatar-pushed-their-interests/ see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXkHZtNXkRoThe UN said that nine staff working for its Palestine refugee agency UNRWA will be sacked because they may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841The UN has placed Israel on a blacklist of entities accused of wartime sexual violence alongside groups such as Hamas and ISIS without evidence.https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-not-my-job-un-official-says-did-not-review-evidence-before-blacklisting-israel-for-sex-crimes-alongside-hamasUSA
Iran’s Texas-Pakistani Network https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/articles/irans-texas-pakistani-networkBrooklyn’s Park Slope Co-op voted by a 2-to-1 margin in favor of boycotting Israeli products. This BDS vote takes products of coexistence-promoters off NYC co-op’s shelves. That seems to be the point.During Democratic debates for NY-7 and NY-10 congressional districts, candidates were asked about Israel. NY-12 candidates refused the 'genocide' bait. NY-7 candidates were unanimous in their condemnation of Israel. The Gaza genocide libel should be treated as the wild conspiracy theory that it is, and not a matter that is subject to debate. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4589534/israel-gaza-genocide-myth-debunked-blood-libel/Trump nixed Israeli plan to overthrow Iranian regime after Turkish pressure - Israeli intelligence sources have accused Vice President JD Vance of leaking a Mossad plan to use Kurdish forces against Iran to Turkish President Erdogan.
