How Al Jazeera’s Influence Seeps into American Media

Addressing the disorder in Los Angeles on social media, the Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz pushed the claim that the synagogue was hosting “a sale of Palestinian land,” and therefore what transpired should be understood as a political protest rather than an assault on a house of worship. This claim is true only if one considers every inch of Israel “Palestinian land.” Such misleading or mendacious statements about Israel have become de rigueur on the pages of the Washington Post, which has distinguished itself even among other America media outlets in its willingness to publish slanders of the Jewish state.