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The Middle East refers to a region including countries in southwest Asia and, usually, part of North Africa.

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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
Holocaust denier and other extremists celebrate Charlie Kirk's antisemitic “Jewish dollars” attack

11/08/23 4:37 PM EST
Charlie Kirk blames “Jewish dollars” for funding “cultural Marxist ideas”

11/07/23 2:26 PM EST
Christian nationalists and right-wing media figures embrace the war between Israel and Hamas as a supposed sign of the “End Times”

11/07/23 12:20 PM EST
The Heritage Foundation uses fringe right-wing media to promote itself as it struggles to stave off competitors

11/03/23 11:22 AM EDT