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Mark Levin's hateful defenses of civilian casualties, calls for war crimes, and xenophobic attacks on Palestinians

12/20/23 3:14 PM EST
Michelle Bachmann to Charlie Kirk: “It's time that Gaza ends. The 2 million people who live there, they are clever assassins. They need to be removed from that land.”

12/18/23 2:44 PM EST
Right-wing media are using pro-Palestinian protests to further their attacks on higher education and diversity

12/15/23 3:53 PM EST
Right-wing media equate Palestinian flag with Nazism and support for Hamas

12/14/23 10:39 AM EST
Right-wing media falsely claimed released Palestinian prisoners were mostly convicted criminals and terrorists

12/08/23 2:13 PM EST
Meta has profited from multiple ads pushing the “Pallywood” conspiracy theory of Palestinian crisis actors, in violation of its advertising policies

12/06/23 2:05 PM EST
Manufacturing fear: How Fox News invented a terrorist attack and used it to demonize Muslims

11/28/23 12:22 PM EST
Fox News vice president accused of making Islamophobic comments in the newsroom oversaw the network’s anti-Muslim coverage of numerous terror attacks

11/21/23 3:05 PM EST
Fox continues longstanding push for war against Iran

11/17/23 1:19 PM EST
Rumble host Laura Loomer wants Palestinian Americans purged from government

11/15/23 2:58 PM EST
Fox News fearmongered about Middle Eastern terrorists at the border over 400 times in the four weeks after the Israel-Hamas war began

11/13/23 12:33 PM EST
Right-wing media ramp up Islamophobia, spread paranoia about all Muslims

11/13/23 9:19 AM EST