Middle East

As President Trump continues to consider his options on whether or not to join Israel’s campaign against Iran, Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart expressed confusion on Thursday on why Israel doesn’t just accept that we live in a world full of risk.

PBS’s Christiane Amanpour sat down with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Tuesday to get his perspective on the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, but Amanpour’s usual mantra of being “truthful, not neutral” mostly took a back seat as she never challenged him on the regime’s anti-Semitic, eliminationist rhetoric or his rewriting of Iran-Iraq War history.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel is not a military expert, but he does try to play one on TV. Having previously shown a stunning lack of basic knowledge on how missiles work in order to try to dunk on President Trump’s Golden Dome idea, Kimmel was back at it again on Tuesday, claiming that deploying National Guard and Marine units to Los Angeles has left Trump “in a tough spot” as he weighs his options on…

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus featured exclusive, heartbreaking interviews with the family of Sarah Miligrim, who was murdered by an alleged far-left anti-Semite last month outside the Capital Jewish Museum. After the segment on the latter show, co-host Adriana Diaz tried to insinuate there’s some equal risk of threats to people of all faiths, not just Jews…

On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, they projected a desire it was time to at least temporarily move on from Sunday’s Boulder, Colorado anti-Semitic terror attack by giving it a 27-second news brief. But instead, they spent over three and a half minutes (3:34) harping on allegations Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been indiscriminately shooting defenseless Gazans at an aid station, setup…

During Tuesday afternoon’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took the liberal media to task from start to finish on everything from the anti-Semitic terror attack in Boulder, Colorado to fighting fentanyl to Gaza to the National Weather Service. And, in between those, she faced plenty of good faith questions…and others not so much.

On Monday, the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC predictably used their flagship morning newscasts to lead with the anti-Semitic terror attack in Boulder, Colorado on a gathering of Jews and supporters calling on Hamas to release the remaining hostages taken on October 7, 2023. However, other than appropriately leading with the attack, the networks collectively failed to cover the…

For months much of the world, including the U.S. legacy media, demanded that Israel allow more aid into Gaza, and now that it has done so, the Tuesday edition of CBS Mornings is not satisfied. According to co-host Gayle King and correspondent Debora Patta, you simply cannot trust a new group that uses American contractors for security to deliver the aid, even as Patta admitted the…

From attacking former Biden aides for talking to CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson for their new book on Biden’s decline to gross Catholic priest jokes to mocking President Trump’s recent Middle East trip as the very definition of corruption while having the wrong props on stage, the season finale of NBC’s Saturday Night Live had it all, and not in a good way.

The media silence is deafening. There has been much media ado about a jet plane that has been gifted from the government of Qatar to President Donald Trump. The President, he the Commander in Chief, quickly made clear that while he would use it as a previously scheduled new Air Force One is being readied, the plane would eventually be passed on to the U.S. Department of Defense.

There are undoubtedly parts of any Donald Trump presidency that are unique to him, but there are also parts that are continuous with other presidents, and one problem the media has is that they freak out over both. New York Times columnist David Brooks did precisely that on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he gave a factually-challenged retort to Trump’s speech in the Saudi capital…

The relationship between the United States and Israel is usually seen as “special” because of technical matters. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel and the U.S. share vitally important intelligence and technology. But what about shared values? Shortly after America’s new ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, arrived at his post, he sat for an interview with the Christian…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert came dangerously close to engaging in anti-Semitic tropes about money and influence during a Thursday interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders, where the two men alleged Super PACs like AIPAC are why the U.S. refuses to strongarm Israel into ending the war against Hamas. Meanwhile, NBC’s Seth Meyers tried to suggest that arresting Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Ben Cohen for…

Last week, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from seeking to deport anti-Israel, pro-Hamas Columbia University student protester Moshen Mahdawi and ordered his release from prison. His arrest sparked a slew of liberal media attention, particularly on CBS’s lead shows, CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News. On the latter’s Monday edition (and then the former on…