Jake Tapper, an anchor with CNN, asserted on Thursday that Hamas “murdered thousands of civilians” on 7 October.
This is a lie.
In fact, contradicting Tapper’s propaganda, approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed that day, over 300 of them soldiers and police officers, as The New York Times noted in a correction I suggested to the newspaper of record last year.
Some Israelis were even killed by the Israeli military that day, though CNN anchor Erin Burnett shockingly failed to ask eyewitness Yasmin Porat about this reality or, if she did, failed to include that segment in her report.
CNN, in contrast to The New York Times, never corrected any of the lies about casualties from anchor Dana Bash I pointed out to them. ….more