Stop the presses!

(JNS) — On March 24, Al Jazeera posted a video on YouTube that accused the Israel Defense Forces of raping Palestinian women during their recent operation in Shifa Hospital. IDF Arabic spokesman Lt.-Col. Avichai Adraee immediately and categorically rejected the rape claims. The next day, the Al Jazeera video was removed without comment or retraction.

A subsequent post on X by Yasser Abu Hilalah, Al Jazeera’s former managing director, admitted that the rape accusations were fabricated and that the woman who made the claims, Jamila al-Hissi, admitted that she lied. She “justified her exaggeratio...