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Alleged Journalist Plays Word Games With Stories About Hamas Beheading Israeli Babies

By Jeff Charles

Here is yet another story illustrating why nobody trusts the media anymore. In the realm of journalism and public discourse discerning eyes can see when a media figure might have a particular agenda by looking at how they frame details of stories. This is especially true of the war between Israel and Hamas.

On Saturday, alleged journalist Eric Levitz stirred a bit of controversy when he held forth in a thread on X, formerly Twitter, on reports that Hamas terrorists had beheaded Israeli babies. He walked back an earlier remark that a report “indicated that babies were beheaded” by Hamas militants during the terrorist group’s initial assault on Israel.

Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them. (The verb behead has multiple definitions, and is sometimes used to mean decapitate; the report indicates that Hamas did behead babies in that sense. But the term can also connote a form of execution using a knife, and we do not have confirmation of beheading in this sense). (I personally don’t think much of anything follows from this distinction; we are describing horrific atrocities in either case. But some people disagree)

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