It isn’t just the sympathetic BBC that tries to whitewash Islamic terrorists by not calling them terrorists. In the aftermath of the worst terror atrocity since 9/11, Voice of America provides Hamas with the same propaganda service:

In an email sent on Friday to the news service’s employees, VOA associate editor for news standards Carol Guensburg relayed the outlet’s policy for covering the October 7 terrorist attacks and the ensuing Israeli campaign against Hamas targets. She emphasized that VOA needs to maintain neutrality in its coverage…

An army of bloodthirsty barbarians are torturing, maiming, and decapitating children as part of a terror war of extermination against Western Civilization. To pose as neutral in this context is to side with the enemy.

Reporters and editors for the outlet may call Hamas’s slaughter of civilians on October 7 terrorist attacks or acts of terror, according to VOA guidance, which initially went out to staff on October 10. But VOA staff were instructed to “avoid calling Hamas and its members terrorists, except in quotes,” according to emails obtained by [National Review].

We wouldn’t want to stigmatize terrorists, would we? They might regard it as a microaggression.

Despite echoing the anti-American mentality of leftist Democrats, VOA is said to be editorially independent. However, it is funded on a coercive basis by US taxpayers. This funding must cease immediately.

Amazingly enough, there are pro-Hamas leftist propaganda platforms still more odious than VOA. Associated Press comes to mind:

While VOA’s guidance loosely resembles the AP’s order not to refer to terrorism, the AP goes even further, prohibiting the use of the word terrorism for the October 7 slaughter of civilians.

After all, one man’s terrorist is a liberal journalist’s freedom fighter.

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