Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I will probably spend the foreseeable future periodically reminding the world that when everyone was angry at Israel for starving children in Gaza, Israel’s apologists spent days loudly proclaiming that no, they were actually just starving sick children. As their defense they said this. They actually believed this helped their case. Let me back up a bit. On Wednesday, The New York Times posted an editor’s note on an article it had published the previous Friday which included a horrifying photo of an emaciated child named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq. Caving to pressure from Zionists and influence ops like the Israeli propaganda outlet HonestReporting, the Times went out of its way to clarify that al-Mutawaq ‘had pre-existing health problems’, which Israel apologists instantly and predictably spun as proof that the media are lying about Israel starving Gaza.” (07/31/25)