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Source: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/10/the-westerners-helping-hamas-win-the-propaganda-war/
The Westerners Helping Hamas Win the Propaganda War
(Spectator-UK) Tom Gross - Hamas's survival was achieved in part thanks to a chorus of Western apologists. A coalition of activists has excused, rationalized and defended the group's actions across universities and in newspaper editorials. Tales of impending famine in Gaza, for instance, were broadcast as fact, sourced from UN bureaucrats and "aid agencies" with long records of anti-Israel bias and, in some cases, open sympathy for Hamas. This isn't journalism: it's agenda-driven activism disguised as news. For Hamas, the Western media is the battlefield - no less important to its survival than its rockets and tunnels. Even before Israeli troops had entered Gaza, Hamas sympathizers in the West were shouting about "genocide" and "famine." Why were Hamas's inflated casualty figures reported as facts? Why were incorrect claims of Israel bombing hospitals repeated without scrutiny - while confirmed cases of Hamas rockets hitting Israeli hospitals in Ashkelon and Beersheba were ignored? The Guardian, London Times and New York Times ran a photo of a skeletal child as evidence of famine on their front pages, inflaming the emotions of millions of readers. In reality, the child wasn't malnourished due to famine. He had cerebral palsy, hypoxemia and other genetic conditions. Other widely shared images of "starvation in Gaza" were from Yemen.