Do you believe Hamas or Israel?

Sent to the Boston Globe August 31, 2025

To the editor:

Hamas is a barbaric terrorist organization known to spread false information, exemplified when, barely ten days after it led that barbaric October 7 slaughter and just minutes after an Islamic Jihad rocket hit a nearly deserted parking lot near the Al Ahli hospital Hamas spread the lie that Israel struck the hospital itself and killed move than 500 people. International media spread that lie without bothering to check and barely bothered to correct it when the truth was made obvious.

That pattern has continued for the nearly two years since Hamas started the current war.

Israel is a democracy that does its best to investigate before commenting on the almost always false accusations of Hamas and its minions.

Yet the media routinely treats whatever Hamas says as if it's true, often not even mentioning the source was Hamas, while gratuitously creating doubt about whatever Israel says.

This perverse double standard reached new heights when the June 27 headline "Israel claims hospital strikes targeted a Hamas camera" was accompanied by the subhead "But no evidence for the assertion has been given."

I have yet to see any of Hamas' claims, which are generated conjured up out of thin air, accompanied by the qualification that the terrorist organization had not provided any evidence.

When it comes to the reporting on the war Hamas started, something is rotten in Denmark.

Sincerely,

Alan Stein

 

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