Wall Street Journal Page One Slurs Israel as Child-Killers
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When Israel-hating socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gave a recent interview depicting Israel as child-killers, we made it a headline here (“Mamdani, in New Interview, Calls Israelis Child-Killers,” July 20, 2025), noting that “The stereotype of Jews as bloodthirsty child-killers has been a staple of hateful anti-Jewish propaganda for centuries.”
Now the Wall Street Journal’s Page One is piling on against Israel alongside Mamdani. An above-the-fold, front-page article in the August 5 Journal declares that “A large proportion of those who have been killed during the war, 60,000 in all, have been minors, according to Gaza health authorities who don’t say how many are combatants.”
That formulation misleads readers in several significant ways. Let me explain:
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