Slate reports on top-editor media bias during Israel’s 2014 attack on Gaza: “when a statement came from the Israel Defense Forces, senior editors at the paper treated it as fact. When [reporter] Omar recorded a statement from an eyewitness on the ground that contradicted the Israeli military’s account, he said the top editors called it unreliable.”

Amira Hass’s charge in Haaretz that Israeli military, as part of its air assault on Gaza, “is wiping out entire Palestinian families on purpose,” cries out for followup by American journalists. So far, no mainstream U.S. media outlet has followed up on her report. Their failure is journalistic malpractice.

The media routinely state that Hamas wants to eradicate Israel. Some of the mystery about Hamas’s goals is surely because the organization is treated as a pariah. U.S. diplomats are prohibited from talking to it openly, the U.S. government calls it a terrorist organization, and the New York Times and other mainstream U.S. media outlets rarely if ever try to interview its leaders or listen to its supporters.

Israel deceives international media about ground attack on Gaza in order to gain a tactical edge. But the news is Israel will continue its indiscriminate air war against Gaza, killing scores of civilians, including children, because it won’t jeopardize the safety of its own soldiers.

The US press is finally making room for Palestinian voices, with a stunning op-ed by Refaat Alareer in the NYT about how it feels to be pounded by missiles in Gaza. And Rula Jebreal tells MSNBC that Palestinians inside Israel experience “Trumpism on steroids.” But Israel supporters fight back, with Bari Weiss saying that killing innocent children is the price of having a state.

The New York Times’s Mideast expert Thomas Friedman blames the Palestinian uprising on Tik-Tok vidoes rather than on the racist landgrabs by Israel that Palestinians have resisted for decades and that are at the heart of the Human Rights Watch report that the New York Times is determined to flush down the memory hole.

US media bury the truth of Palestinian protests in Jerusalem: Israeli leaders aim to seize homes in Sheikh Jarrah in a naked colonization strategy: “the way to secure the future of Jerusalem as a Jewish capital for the Jewish people,” as one apartheid advocate who happens to be the deputy mayor of Jerusalem told the New York Times.

The Israel lobby has prevented a warming of relations between the U.S. and Iran, even if it can’t prevent a return to the nuclear deal, John Ghazvinian writes in his superb new history. “Perhaps the most unfortunate effect of all this domestic [U.S.] political wrangling was that it destroyed any hope that the nuclear deal might become a building block to warmer relations between Iran and the United States.”

The New York Times top foreign affairs columnist has given grants through his family foundation to MEMRI, a pro-Israel propaganda shop that has a record of Islamophobia, and other pro-Israel organizations without disclosing as much to readers.

Normally, the New York Times trusts Human Rights Watch and relies on the organization often. But the Times’s respectful view disappeared suddenly yesterday — after Human Rights Watch released a landmark report finding that “Israeli officials have committed the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.” The paper’s slanted report quotes two people in support of the finding, one of them Palestinian, and five people attacking the charge. Imagine writing a report on apartheid South Africa and quoting only one black South African.