Why are the media so hostile to Israel and so sympathetic to pro-Hamas activists? Why should America stick with Israel as an ally in global geopolitics? MRC Business editor Joseph Vazquez and I asked Josh Hammer, author of the new book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. On his Fox show, Mark Levin called the new book a “tour de force.”
We begin with pro-Hamas protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, as the media pretend he’s not a radical Islamist who supports killing all the Jews, starting with Israel. Hammer wrote a column lamenting “the media’s incessant focus on the Khalil saga” underlines why they’ve lost trust with the public. Margaret Brennan suggested there wasn’t any evidence linking Khalil to radical causes like, say, being devoted to the end of Western civilization — which Khalil’s group,…