CNN lied to terror victims: now apologizes

More than a month after Christiane Amanpour, a so called journalist from the Compromised News Network, wrongly claimed that Lucy Dee and her two daughters were killed "in a shoot-out," she finally apologized for suggesting that the women were armed during their murder.

“On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee. I misspoke [aka lied] and said they were killed in a ‘shoot-out’ instead of a shooting,” Amanpour explained in her on-air apology on May 22.

“I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”

However, Amanpour's apology did not mention that the women were victims of a terror attack, nor did it identify or discuss the attackers or their motives.

Last month, the pro-Israel group HonestReporting shared a video clip on Twitter of Amanpour talking about the incident on TV. Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina were brutally shot at close range in their car by terrorists in an attack that had no provocation. But this is what terrorists do--like the Oct. 7 attack last year when Hamas and other cowards came into Israel and mercilessly killed, tortured, raped and burned to death over 1,200 unarmed Jewish men, women, children and babies. 

🚨On May 11, HonestReporting called out @CNN @Amanpour for misrepresenting the murders of Lucy, Maia, & Rina Dee. Join Rabbi Leo Dee in calling for a public acknowledgment of their mistake. Sign our petition here: https://t.co/4viV813MgH

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting)

When Amanpour described the attack, she claimed that the mother and daughters were “killed in a shoot-out,” implying that the British-Israeli women were armed and defending themselves in an exchange of fire with the terrorists. Even if that was the case, which it was not, remember who instigated the slaughter of the innocent family.

“A shoot-out is two sides firing at each other,” HonestReporting posted as a caption to the clip. “A mother and her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.”

Addressing Amanpour, they wrote that “you owe a grieving family an apology.”

Rabbi Leo Dee, the widower and father of the victims, was outraged by Amanpour’s characterization of the murders.

“This is the perfect example of ‘terror journalism’ where you have a moral equivalence between the terrorist and victim,” Dee said in a media statement.

“This type of journalism perpetuates the conflict in the Middle East. The real cycle of violence is a comment like this followed by a terrorist atrocity and then more of the same.”

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Reuters screwed up: accidentally outed fake Gaza "famine" claims

The Reuters "special investigation" published this week looked into how the world tries to prevent famine, but it ended up revealing more than just the problems with the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system.

While the article tried to show that the IPC isn't to blame for not stopping hunger, it accidentally pointed out big flaws in how we measure famines, especially in Gaza.

The piece talked about different famines around the world, including one supposedly in Gaza, where the IPC had warned of an "imminent famine" in the north. That famine never actually happened, and HonestReporting had already shown how the IPC backed off from their initial warning.

Reuters suggests that this wrong prediction wasn't because of bad data or overblown statements but rather because of Israel. They blame "Israeli bombing and restrictions on movement" for making it hard to gather info on malnutrition and deaths not caused by violence, but they leave out some important details.

For instance, Israel has allowed nearly half a million aid trucks into Gaza since the war began, which Reuters doesn't mention. Also, there's no talk about how Hamas has been known to steal and hoard aid.

Actually, the term "Hamas" only shows up twice in the entire 4,000-word article, and both times it's just in photo captions about the "Israel-Hamas war."

🧵 @Reuters’ “special investigation” accidentally exposes more than it intended about the so-called famine in Gaza. Spoiler: There isn’t one. https://t.co/NmFd7oHVBd

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting)

Reuters acknowledges that the IPC’s data collection in Gaza is flawed, as the organization cannot use its “preferred methods” for assessing malnutrition, allegedly due to Israel’s destruction of hospitals and clinics. This apparently includes the obliteration of all of Gaza’s scales and height boards — tools it says are critical for measuring famine.

They never mention that Hamas turned hospitals into command centers and weapons storage depots.

Humanitarian groups have reportedly trained health workers to measure children's upper arms, and this is the data used to claim there's a famine.

However, the IPC won't say who trained these workers or even who the workers are, claiming they "could be targeted by Israel."

Yes, Reuters genuinely suggests that the IDF might hunt down health workers just for reporting a famine. If this sounds like a conspiracy, that's because it is.

A more believable reason for all this secrecy might be that naming names could show that these "health workers" are also Hamas operatives.

What's even more confusing is that, despite these supposed safety worries, the IPC didn't work with Israeli officials — which they've done with other governments in similar situations. Reuters tries to explain this by saying the IPC thought Israel didn't want aid to reach the starving Palestinians.

The reality? Half a million aid trucks have made it into Gaza — even while Hamas keeps Israeli civilians as hostages.

This is the story Reuters doesn't want to tell. Instead, they go out of their way to explain why Gaza's "imminent famine" is always just about to happen but never actually does.

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‘Journalists’ accused of war crimes—laughed at dead IDF soldier dragged from tank

A pair of Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who were with the October 7 Hamasshole massacres of mostly Israeli civilians, including women and children, have committed war crimes, experts reported to the Tazpit Press Service.

“I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both the convention that we talked about in the [International Criminal Court], of the Prevention and Prosecution of Genocide, and under the Israeli law regarding the commission of and the prevention of genocide, and its prosecution,” Maurice Hirsch told the outlet. 

Hirsch is the former Director of the Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, and is now Director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform in the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a Jerusalem-based research institute.

He was referring to a recent report by HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog, that found Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Ashraf Amra entered Israel to photograph the attacks. This is on par with CNN being told of the early morning SWAT team  arrest of Roger Stone, only the CNN 'journalists' weren't terrorists, only scumcrumpet hacks.

Mostafa and Amra then returned to Khan Yunis and went on Amra’s Instagram Live account and excitedly shared a video of a mob pulling an Israeli soldier out of a tank and urged Palestinians to join the attack.

Like what Rachel Maddow does, that isn't journalism.

“You can go to Khuza’a [an area of southern Gaza near the border]. You park your motorbike there, okay? Or your jeep. And you enter inside. You will return back with a jeep, motorbike or bicycle, or anything,” Mostafa says in the video. Later, he adds, “Advice, whoever can go – go. It is a one-time event that will not happen again.”

Amra replies, “Really, it will not repeat itself.”

They were referring to stealing things from the dead Israelis, like bicycles from dead children, clothing, and household goods that weren't destroyed in the fires Hamas set to destroy Jewish homes.

Mostafa isn't only an anal sphincter, he's also a freelance photographer associated with Reuters. They were only too happy to publish photos of the soldier's lynching by their fellow Hamassholes.

Amra is also a freelancer whose photo of a bulldozer breaking down a section of the Gaza border fence was published with a credit of “Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.”

“Having been witness to the crimes themselves, and what was going on, and being witness to the genocide, to then be a party to this open public call to go and participate, to invade Israel, that is something which I think is without question part of at least incitement to commit the crime of genocide,” Hirsch told TPS.

He explained that both photographers could be prosecuted in Israel under the Laws of the Prevention of Genocide and its Punishment.

“If they are arrested alive, they could be indicted for a crime which carries a death sentence,” Hirsch explained.

Let's hope they're caught, arrested and executed. Then we can have the last laugh.

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Terrorist sympathizer and CNN host claims unarmed Israeli family killed in a "shootout"

When you hear the word "shootout" you think of two sides firing at each other with weapons. Bullets fly in both directions and there's usually a sense of an equal chance of victory to both sides. But when a fake news, anti-Zionist, Jew-hating "reporter" calls the execution of a Jewish family in Israel a "shootout," fake news has reached a new and more disgusting level.

Last week the Compromised News Network's Christiane Amanpour claimed that members of the British-Israeli Dee family were "killed in a shootout." HonestReporting, a media watchdog organization, showed video of Amanpour making the claim about mother Lucy Dee and her daughters Maya and Rina.

The media watchdog noted, “A shootout is two sides firing at each other. A mother and her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.”

But people like Amanpour don't see terrorist acts as terror, they see it as freedom fighters that fight for their cause.

Terrorist in training

The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta intends to send a letter of complaint to the Crappy News Nitwits. It's doubtful that they'll apologize or do anything about their so called reporter, but to do nothing would be a crime. The outlet also said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed they are working on the letter.

The murders of the Dee mother and daughters occurred over the Passover holiday as they drove through the Jordan Valley and terrorists fired multiple rounds at their car, shooting them over 20 times. 

Tell us, Amanpour, how the hell is that considered to be a shootout?

The family patriarch, Rabbi Leo Dee, told HonestReporting that he demands an apology, The Jerusalem Post reported.

“This is the perfect example of ‘terror journalism,’ where you have moral equivalence between the terrorist and victim,” Rabbi Dee told The Post. “This type of journalism perpetuates the conflict in the Middle East,” he added. “The real cycle of violence is a comment like this followed by a terrorist atrocity and then more of the same.”

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CNN finally fires "Team Hitler" producer

Ilhan Omar's doppelgänger?

It took HonestReporting, a media watchdog organization, to expose a Compromised News Network (CNN) producer who covered Israel before the network fired him. This is a person who posted pro-Hamas and "Team Hitler" messages on Twitter [BEM: aka Before Elon Musk] and nobody at CNN seemed to notice. 

[H/T unitedwithisrael.org]

“After HonestReporting notified CNN of their producer’s offensive social media history, a spokesperson immediately assured us the matter was being investigated,” said HonestReporting in a recent statement.

“A deafening silence followed, however, leaving us wondering whether CNN was serious about dealing with an employee who glorified Adolf Hitler and lavished praise on a terrorist group,” the watchdog outlet added.

The scumcrumpet to whom HonestReporting referred is Idris Muktar Ibrahim, who was contributing reporting to the network’s international desk, including coverage of Israel.

Ibrahim received a degree from the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, which apparently didn't teach him about bias reporting. The creep posted the hashtag "Team Hitler" about a soccer match between Israel and Germany, which had as much taste as a Feces McMuffin.

The anti-Semite also championed the Palestinian terror group Hamas, referring to its members as “modern day freedpm fighters [sic]” who are “definding [sic] their land.” He obviously doesn't check his work as he spells worse than a first grader during the pandemic.

Speaking of first graders, HonestReporting also noted that "just hours after Ibrahim posted” this tweet, “a Hamas rocket struck a kindergarten in the southern Israeli town of Gan Yavneh.”

CNN initially took no action regarding Ibrahim's overt anti-Semitic sentiments so HonestReporting took action by calling on its social media followers to contact the network.

After that, CNN sent HonestReporting this message: “Idris was employed as a freelancer by CNN. We were not aware of these tweets, which were published before we began working with him. We have informed him that we will no longer be working with him in the future.”

JNS.org quoted HonestReporting executive director Gil Hoffman as saying, “We at HonestReporting will continue to make sure that those who call for the annihilation of the Jewish people will not report the news about the Jewish state.”

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This isn't the first time CNN has experienced controversy over anti-Semitism. During the Trump administration, CNN's Christiane Amanpour likened Kristallnacht [the "night of broken glass" in which on November 9th to 10th 1938, Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues and Jews were targeted and 90 Jews were killed by the Nazis] to the former President's administration. Thus, like many anti-Semites, Amanpour diluted what the Holocaust was really about. She eventually apologized, but don't they all.

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