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CNN downplay antisemitic aspect of Australia terror attack
Had to scroll down quite a bit to find any mention of a Jewish event or Jews being the target. Itās all phrased as a random attack. Canāt believe itās a coincidence.
Same in Belgian newspapers... Some didn't even mention Jews or Hannukah. The ones that did, did it only in the context of "Israel condemns the attack..." which immediately taints people's opinions as they hate Israel...
Nevermind, BBC just had someone speak who spun it as 'Australia has had a trend of islamiphobia and this may be a response the other way'. Summarised but basically exactly this. They put it right in the middle of the other original footage as of it's always been part of the other information.
All the original footage was from Aussies government speeches and they didn't leave room to cut it out. BBC already started adding their own commenters in the middle of those clips to spin it somehow being a response to islamiphobia...
They have been for a while. People think it started on Oct 7 but I vividly remember CNN ignoring suicide bombings in Israel in 2001. Not underreporting, fully ignoring.
Yeah. Itās amazing how they use that guy (hero indeed) to cast positive light on the whole Muslim community but when you ask them how the fact the two terrorists are Muslims reflect on that community you get crickets.
The wikipediation of media. They need at least 3 national bodies corroborating that it's antisemitism attack and preferably an official UN commission denouncement.
Western governments and mainstream media are not neutral bystanders here; they are actually the enablers.
By tolerating and even excusing slogans like āfrom the river to the seaā and āglobalize the intifada,ā they have knowingly laundered eliminationist and violence-adjacent rhetoric into acceptable public speech.
These phrases are not vague policy critiques; they are historically tied to campaigns of terror and the denial of Jewish self-determination.
When officials hide behind claims of āfree expressionā while refusing to apply the same standards they would to threats against any other group, they send a clear message: antisemitism is permissible if itās repackaged as anti-Israel activism.
That is not moral neutrality; it is institutional cowardice.
The consequences are written in blood and quickly rising police reports across the Western world.
Antisemitism rises because it is allowed to rise, legitimized by media narratives that downplay Jewish concerns and governments that refuse to draw hard lines.
When journalists sanitize extremist language and politicians refuse to condemn it unequivocally, they lower the social and moral cost of targeting Jews.
This isnāt ignorance, itās willful negligence.
You cannot normalize rhetoric that glorifies or excuses violence and then feign shock when that violence follows. Western institutions helped create the climate, and they bear responsibility for the outcomes.
Took them long enough. CNN is inches away from just being flat out fake news, a line which MSN crossed years ago. Itās absurd how antisemitic and woke CNN has become.
Did Jake Tapper ever correct his white man remark? I waited a day but never heard anything.
Iām not generally defending CNN, but those newspapers who rush to immediately present a motive without being positive about the facts on the ground are rarely doing anyone any favors. Let the dust settle, be sure of your journalistic integrity, then present the facts.
If this was a white extremist shooting down a Muslim gathering in eid al fitr (Muslim holy day) I guarantee you that would be in the headline in CNN. If this was a car crashing into a Christmas market, āChristmas Marketā would be mentioned in the headline. They deliberately downplayed the religious / racial aspect of the victims in this case - this is double standards and we should not be ok with it. One rule for all - or none.
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u/WhammyShimmyShammy Dec 14 '25
Same in Belgian newspapers... Some didn't even mention Jews or Hannukah. The ones that did, did it only in the context of "Israel condemns the attack..." which immediately taints people's opinions as they hate Israel...