{"id":263338,"date":"2026-01-29T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:11:09","slug":"the-medias-israel-obsession-is-at-the-root-of-other-distortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263338\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media\u2019s Israel Obsession Is at the Root of Other Distortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The likes of Tucker Carlson and Kanye West feed off the constant barrage of stories in the media about Israel that are false, misleading, or simply give undue attention to its failings. Part of this is the result of the information warfare that was the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.tikvah.org\/mosaic\/observations\/lessons-from-clausewitz-about-the-information-war-against-israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent Mosaic article<\/a>. But, Samuel Hyde observers, there is another factor in reporting on Israel that goes much deeper than any particular flawed story or persistent but inaccurate narrative: \u201cthe sheer scale of attention.\u201d Indeed, this \u201csystemic fasciation, bordering on obsession\u201d mirrors the obsessiveness that is the hallmark of the anti-Semite, who sees Jews everywhere:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Continue Reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"label-base mt-2 text-subtle\">Get the best Jewish ideas and conversations. Subscribe to Tikvah Ideas All Access for $10\/month<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-flex items-center justify-center disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-50 [&amp;&gt;svg]:shrink-0 label-base h-12 gap-x-3 px-6 py-2 [&amp;&gt;svg]:size-4 text-white rounded-full mt-6 bg-mosaic hover:bg-mosaic\/95\" href=\"https:\/\/mosaicmagazine.com\/signup?returnTo=%2Fmosaic%2Fpicks%2Fthe-media-s-israel-obsession-is-at-the-root-of-other-distortions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"label-base-light mt-4\">Already subscribed? <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/mosaicmagazine.com\/login?returnTo=%2Fmosaic%2Fpicks%2Fthe-media-s-israel-obsession-is-at-the-root-of-other-distortions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The likes of Tucker Carlson and Kanye West feed off the constant barrage of stories in the media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-263338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}