AP Sympathizes With Hezbollah Terrorists
The Associated Press published an article sympathetic to Hezbollah terrorists on Wednesday, focusing on the “survivors” of Israel’s pager attack.
Why it matters: Major Western media outlets defending proven terrorists is an indictment against the West’s growing immorality. AP’s article is another example of this ominous trend.
[The AP] is wholly average, which makes it useful as an example. The big players in the news business practice groupthink, and these staffing arrangements were reflected across the herd.
—Matti Friedman, former reporter for AP’s Jerusalem bureau
Pager attack: In September of last year, Israel detonated thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah terrorists. Hezbollah had switched from phones to pagers in an attempt to negate Israeli surveillance. So Israel placed detonators in pagers that would later be used by Hezbollah. At least 30 were killed and over 3,000 were injured.
This attack exposed many terrorists. Those unaffiliated with Hezbollah weren’t targeted.
Sympathizing with terrorists: Even though the victims are associated with a group whose goal is to exterminate Jews, the AP came to their defense. It even acknowledged that those interviewed were all “Hezbollah officials or fighters or members of their families.”
Nothing shocks me anymore with media, but this really did. They’re literally presenting Hezbollah terrorists as victims. Absolutely jaw-dropping.
—Robby Starbuck, conservative activist
Imagine in 1944, the Associated Press published a news article about how Nazi SS soldiers “struggle to recover” from wounds they suffered from battles with the Allies in Europe. It’s a moral abomination that this is not a fantasy for the AP in 2025.
—Adam Mossoff, Antonin Scalia Law School professor
Prophesied anti-Semitism: The press is reflecting and amplifying a growing antipathy for the Jewish state within Western nations. It often uses blatant tools of propaganda and deceit to weave its narratives.
The rise in anti-Semitism is a troubling trend that portends shocking global unrest. The Bible prophesies it as part of a period of unparalleled suffering about to engulf the nations. Read about it in Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy.
