Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples
– Zechariah 12:2-3

On June 2, 2025, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee condemned the media for parroting misleading, exaggerated, and utterly fabricated stories from Hamas sources designed to fan the flames of anti-Jew hate.[1] He called out reckless and irresponsible reporting by major media that resulted in the murder of two young people at an Israeli Embassy event in Washington last month and the attempted murder and terror attack on a group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado the previous day.[2] 

Left unsaid is that false news is the primary Islamist weapon in the cognitive battle space against Israel and the West. In the fight for narrative dominance, Islamists are manipulating Western media to grab our attention and misdirect us. One reason they are successful is that they play to the woke ideology that has captured the Western media. But another is subtle. The content triggers subliminal and ancient fears that captivate the crowd. To know both elements is to understand how to dispel the Western media’s pathological fixation on Israel and defend against the danger it poses to Western civilization. 

The Western media’s hostile obsessiveness with Israel is inescapable. Its focus on Israel is so “disproportionate to the Jewish state’s size, the intensity of its conflicts and the amount of US aid it receives” that it cannot be said to be driven by “genuine journalistic motivations.”[3] This saturation coverage of Israel continues while the media plays down or wholly ignores the threat of terrorism and the dire humanitarian crises affecting West Africa and the Sahel region of Africa, where militant Islamic groups–Islamic State and al-Qaeda–are responsible for over half of all global terrorism-related deaths.[4] There is barely any coverage, for example, of the twenty-five million people who are on the brink of famine in the midst of Sudan’s war of ethnic cleansing and genocide against its non-Arab darker-skinned African population.[5] 

A driver of this biased coverage is the Critical Theory model that has captured Western media and........

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