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- In Oct 2023, "The Washington Post's World View is thoroughly distorted. The newspaper continues to treat Hamas casualty claims as reliable. And columnist Ishaan Tharoor insists on giving the genocidal terrorist group the benefit of the doubt."<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/wapo-columnist-oct-7-massacre-a-bad-thing-that-doesnt-justify-other-bad-things/ Wapo Columnist: Oct. 7 Massacre A ‘bad Thing’ That Doesn’t Justify Other ‘bad Things’], ''Camera'', October 25, 2023.</ref>
- In Oct 2023, "The Washington Post's World View is thoroughly distorted. The newspaper continues to treat Hamas casualty claims as reliable. And columnist Ishaan Tharoor insists on giving the genocidal terrorist group the benefit of the doubt."<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/wapo-columnist-oct-7-massacre-a-bad-thing-that-doesnt-justify-other-bad-things/ Wapo Columnist: Oct. 7 Massacre A ‘bad Thing’ That Doesn’t Justify Other ‘bad Things’], ''Camera'', October 25, 2023.<blockquote><small>On Oct. 7, 2023, more Jewish civilians were slaughtered than at any point since the Holocaust. More than 1400 Israelis were brutally murdered by Hamas and other Gaza-based Iranian proxies in barbaric fashion.
Children were burned alive, toddlers shot in car seats and cribs, parents tied up and tortured in front of their children, their eyes, feet, fingers, and hands cut off. Women were raped on the corpses of their dead friends before being executed, the elderly shot in their living rooms. And much of it was live streamed by terrorists who were exceedingly proud of their work, as they perpetrated a massacre that was proportionally multitudes larger than the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Or, as Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor put it in an Oct. 23, 2023 tweet[https://twitter.com/ishaantharoor/status/1716519620201340963]: “a bad thing happened.” But the World Views columnist shared his real concern: “it’s perhaps not great to do other bad things” in response. Those who fail to see that, Tharoor unironically remarked, “seem to lack a moral imagination.”
Someone said this. And the Washington Post, which is already bleeding[https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/10/washington-post-staff-buyouts/] subscribers and laying off staff, employs him.
The same day that Tharoor shared his concern, the Israeli government hosted foreign journalists for a 43-minute viewing of footage that the terrorists themselves took. The viewing was necessary, officials contended, because denialism of the atrocities has already begun, no doubt enabled by a fourth estate that has too often sought moral equivalence between terrorists and the terrorized.
Several journalists recounted the horrors of the footage that they were shown. One terrorist, using the phone of a dead Israeli woman that he had just murdered, called his parents: “Dad, I killed 10 Jews with my own hands!” he proudly proclaimed. “I killed 10! 10! Please be proud of me, Dad.” The terrorist promised to send footage to his parents over WhatsApp.
As the journalist Melissa Weiss has noted[https://jewishinsider.com/2023/10/hamas-terrorist-attack-october-7-idf/], “the screening was necessary to counter disinformation.” Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy warned that “we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon unfolding in real time.”
Denialism, of course, is also made possible by minimization and false moral equivalency. And this is where Tharoor comes in.
Tharoor’s anti-Israel biases have attracted attention before. Referring to the columnist, the journalist Armin Rosen once tweeted [https://twitter.com/ArminRosen/status/1387033488218591236] that it is kind of “interesting that the Washington Post [https://twitter.com/ArminRosen/status/1387033488218591236] has a designated anti-Israel newsletter.” The Jewish state, Rosen observed, “is discussed far more” by Tharoor “than almost any other country, almost always in terms of whatever the activist talking points happen to be at the time.”
Indeed, as CAMERA has noted, in the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Tharoor wrote almost as many columns about Israel, a tiny nation of nine million, as he did China. And it is a curiously twisted world view that the author projects.
Tharoor has authored dozens of articles blaming Israel for the lack of a Palestinian state. Not once has he noted that Palestinian leaders themselves have rejected no fewer than three offers for statehood in the last two decades alone. This skewed view has led to faulty analysis.
In a column before the September 2019 election in Israel, Tharoor warned [https://www.camera.org/article/the-washington-posts-israel-problem/] of a “shadow of (so-called) apartheid,” claiming that Israeli Arabs—whom he refers to as Palestinians—were being disenfranchised. Instead, the election witnessed record turnout from Israeli Arabs—disproving Tharoor’s entire thesis less than 48 hours after it was published. And despite his professed concern for apartheid, Tharoor hasn’t once noted that the areas ruled by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are Judenrein Those caught selling land or even renting an apartment to a Jew can face death.
Tharoor also perennially ignores [https://www.camera.org/article/the-washington-posts-opinion-page-attacks-israel-and-hides-iran/] the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran in boosting terrorism. During the 2021 Israel-Hamas War, as well as the current war, the Post columnist has incorrectly argued that Israel’s “occupation” is at the root of the conflict, overlooking attempts by Iran to seize control of the PA-ruled West Bank. That Iran and its proxies consider all of Israel to be an “occupation” and openly call [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/forty-years-of-misreading-iran] for the Jewish state’s destruction is omitted.
Tharoor also has a track record of boosting antisemites. In a Sept. 28, 2018 interview [https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/10/03/once-again-the-media-whitewashes-antisemitism-around-the-world/], he called Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed—a man who once said that “Jews rule the world by proxy” and “I am proud to be antisemitic”—a “venerable statesmen.” He has described [https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/10/issa-amro-is-no-palestinian-gandhi/] the anti-Israel activist Issa Amro as a “non-violent dissident” and a “Palestinian Gandhi” even though Amro has perpetrated antisemitic blood libels, accusing Israel of “drinking our children’s blood."
Post columnist has incorrectly argued that Israel’s “occupation” is at the root of the conflict, overlooking attempts by Iran to seize control of the PA-ruled West Bank. That Iran and its proxies consider all of Israel to be an “occupation” and openly call [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/forty-years-of-misreading-iran] for the Jewish state’s destruction is omitted.
Tharoor also has a track record of boosting antisemites. In a Sept. 28, 2018 interview [https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/10/03/once-again-the-media-whitewashes-antisemitism-around-the-world/], he called Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed—a man who once said that “Jews rule the world by proxy” and “I am proud to be antisemitic”—a “venerable statesmen.” He has described [https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/10/issa-amro-is-no-palestinian-gandhi/] the anti-Israel activist Issa Amro as a “non-violent dissident” and a “Palestinian Gandhi” even though Amro has perpetrated antisemitic blood libels, accusing Israel of “drinking our children’s blood."..</small></blockquote></ref>
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