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December 14, 2023

When Defaming Israel, the “Washington Post” Doesn’t Bother Confirming the Facts

The anatomy of a libel.

Last month, Robert Satloff analyzed a Washington Post article that took “a fundamentally good-news story about premature babies from Gaza cared for by compassionate people across enemy lines and turned it into a horror story” of Israel maliciously separating babies from their mothers. Satloff noted the poor sourcing of its claims and misleading framing. After looking into the report more closely, he realized it was even worse than he thought, and its allegations rely heavily on an unchecked report by an NGO. He presents a forensic dissection:

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December 14, 2023

  1. When Defaming Israel, the “Washington Post” Doesn’t Bother Confirming the Facts

    The anatomy of a libel.

  2. What Shouldn’t Happen after the War

    Avoiding the mistakes of the past.

  3. The Catholic Case against Anti-Semitism

    At the UN, hating Jews is far more than “ineffective malevolence.”

  4. Can Neighborhoods Restore American Society?

    “The very concept of belonging to a place . . . has all but disappeared.”

  5. The Book of Maccabees and the Rabbinic Perception of Martyrdom

    In the Talmud, living for God is even greater than dying for Him.