Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
As we approach the second anniversary of Hamas mercilessly slaughtering 1,200 human beings on Oct. 7, 2023, our media remind us daily of the death toll of Palestinians, according to the “Gaza Health Ministry,” which is run by Hamas.
It’s outrageous that these media outlets are such receptive publicists for mass-murdering terrorists. But they have effectively reversed the polarity, and the people of Israel are painted as the most horrible ghouls on Earth.
On the latest “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the stridently atheist host said something surprising. “I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches,” Maher said, referring to violent Islamists in Nigeria such as Boko Haram.
“This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza,” he added. “They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?”
That is wokeness at work. The Palestinians are the “marginalized” brown people that need to be “centered” in the media. We know how overwhelmingly anti-Israel our most prestigious campuses are. Meanwhile, African Christians who are black aren’t newsworthy.
Maher began by acknowledging, “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck, you are in a bubble.” That would be the vast majority of the American media. Nobody’s hearing the “health ministry” statistics from Nigeria about the 100,000 killed since 2009.