From the earliest moments of the October 7 attack, there were questions about “journalists” who happened to be present when Israeli soldiers were being lynched; when civilians were being kidnapped, and more. Well, it turns out that at least 170 “journalists” were in fact Hamas and PIJ operatives. The IDF has published the Press Files – a online dossier documenting 170 terrorists masquerading as members of the press, with evidence culled from open source material as well as interrogations and other information to which they have access. The project was published on Friday, October 2. And the international media barely noticed. They ignored it, in large part. Except for Piers Morgan – an independent media personality (who cut his teeth in the UK tabloid industry) and has close to ten-million social media followers. Morgan was targeted in an IDF social media post about the project. He lashed back, saying that he finds it difficult to believe anything that the IDF says. And so on.
Well, Morgan and others may not like it but facts do not lie. And the IDF has amassed an impressive compendium of facts. In this podcast we speak with former IDF Spokesperson and FDD Senior Fellow, Jonathan Conricus, as well as IDF Deputy Spokesperson, Ben Cohen. We get into the deeply entrenched media bias against Israel and discuss certain issues and events in detail – like the October 17, 2023 incident in which a PIJ rocket backfired. Hamas and PIJ told the world that Israel had dropped an ordinance on a hospital killing 500. No one questioned that libel – which fueled wild antisemitic riots the world over. In this podcast, we show footage of the PIJ political spokesperson explaining the anatomy of the lie that night and every day since, and before. He confirms that hospitals and ambulances and schools and all civilian infrastructure used by PIJ and Hamas as a matter of course. It’s all in here. And it should be sending shock waves through western newsrooms.
But……nary a ripple.
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Jonathan Conricus is a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington D.C.-based think tank. He served in the IDF for 24 years, four of them as spokesman during the intense 11 days of the Guardian of the Walls Operation between Israel and Hamas. Now a reserve officer with the rank of Lt. Col., he is a sought-after speaker internationally and is frequently seen on major television news shows. Jonathan was born in Jerusalem to a Swedish father and an Israeli mother and spent his formative years in Sweden.
Podcast Notes
* Link to the IDF “Press Files”
* Video of interrogation of PIJ Political Bureau Spokesman
* Video of interrogation of a hospital manager (who has been an active Hamas operative for 15 years) who explains how civilian infrastucture is used and controlled by Hamas and PIJ.
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