Published by Camera (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Anaylysis)
Channel 4 News presenter launders terrorist propaganda
From the moment the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was first publicly discussed, Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society wrote last month in an in-depth report, “Hamas has regarded it as a direct threat to its interests”.
On 26 May 2025, as the GHF, the US-Israeli aid distribution scheme that bypasses a proscribed terror organisation and reduces its control over the civilian population, opened its first centres, Hamas, Fox noted, condemned the organisation as an “agent of the occupation” and warned Palestinians not to cooperate. “Anyone who accepts their assistance will pay the price, and we will take the necessary measures”, they said. In short, Hamas is threatened by this new operating model and pledged to do everything in its power to see it fail.
The British media’s one-sided, highly critical coverage of the GHF has been clear from the start. Most outlets routinely promote unsubstantiated claims by the Hamas-controlled health ministry accusing the IDF of killing ‘innocent Palestinians in queue for food’, while ignoring evidence of Hamas’s efforts to sabotage the aid distribution system, which has included armed attacks at or near GHF sites.
“It is absolutely defamatory and shameful”, Fox argues in his HJS report, how quickly “unvetted allegations” by Hamas and other about GHF, which has distributed close to 125 million meals to date, are circulated within the Western media “while the terror group’s role in inciting violence is downplayed”.
One of the most egregious examples of a British media outlet promoting Hamas propaganda occurred during an Channel 4 News interview of GHF Spokesperson Chapin Fay, by presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, which aired on Aug 15.
While there are numerous examples of Guru-Murthy spreading disinformation and falsely accusing Fay of lying, the most astonishing narrative promoted by the presenter in the 23 minute exchange was when the presenter said or asked several times, in different variations, “Aren’t you the bait in a death trap? You’re luring people in and then they’re getting killed”.
Fay correctly called that out as Hamas propaganda.
In fact, the proscribed terror group first made that claim on May 27, one day after GHF began operating. “The occupation forces, positioned in or around those areas, opened live fire on starving civilians who were lured to these locations under the pretence of receiving aid,” the Hamas-run Government Media Office said.
The Hamas media office repeated the libel on June 3, writing that “These sites are nothing short of baited killing grounds. Civilians, driven by starvation under an imposed siege and famine, are lured to these areas and then gunned down in cold blood.“.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the Hamas-affiliated propaganda front which masquerades as a “human rights group”, issued a press release on July 20 titled “Starving civilians in northern Gaza lured to aid sites and executed, revealing brutal pattern of Israel’s genocide“.
In short, the Channel 4 News presenter promoted, in his own voice, the demented Hamas conspiracy-theory that Israel and the US set up a fake food distribution service as bait to lure Palestinians there so that Israel can murder them – the laundering of terrorist propaganda that you’d expect to see on Iranian Press TV rather than on a publicly-owned British broadcaster.
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