[ April 17, 2026 ]
‘It’s an utter disgrace that this ‘news’ agency is writing puff-piece articles designed to garner sympathy for terrorists,’ Congresswoman Claudia Tenney writes.
The AP’s glowing piece on Hezb’Allah terrorists is an admission of their status of enemy of the state. They should be treated as such.
The Associated Press reached new heights of terrorist sympathy on Wednesday by publishing a compassionately credulous report on “the human toll of Israel’s exploding-pagers attack targeting Hezbollah,” the Iranian-funded terrorist group. The AP contacted the Hezbollah public relations department and was given the contact information of several “victims” of the September 2024 attack who agreed to discuss their “slow, painful path to recovery.”< Readers are apparently expected to have a sympathetic reaction toward "victims" such as Mahdi Sheri, a 23-year-old Hezbollah terrorist who was preparing to deploy to the Israel border and fire rockets at civilians. His beeper went off, and he went to check for updates from his terrorist bosses. He lost one eye in the explosion, and eventually went blind in his other eye. The terrorist laments that he "can no longer play football." He's depressed because his injuries have made it "impossible now to find a role alongside Hezbollah fighters."a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/ap-writes-puff-piece-on-hezbollah-victims-of-israeli-pager-attack/"> (Andrew Stiles)
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Israel slams AP for sympathetic highlight of Hezbollah terrorists wounded in Mossad beeper op. https://t.co/gReBeA21cZ @BBCWorld @cnni @nytimes @
— Jonathan Rand (@yonir17) August 7, 2025
Yesterday the @AP tried to get you to sympathise with family members of Hezbollah.
Also yesterday @bbcnews tried to paint Hamas as some glorified Robin Hood outfit.
These are both barbaric Islamic terrorist groups.
Much of Western media has completely lost the plot.
— David Collier (@mishtal) August 7, 2025
The Associated Press said nothing about the hostages recent pictures of tortured, emaciated Jewish hostages held by Hamas or how they were forced to dig his own grave… but they found time to write an article sympathizing with Hezb’Allah terrorists.
Associated Press: The hours of interviews offered a rare glimpse into the attack’s human toll. Survivors described how the incessantly buzzing pagers exploded when picked up, whether they pressed a button or not. Some said their ears still ring from the blast. ”I’ve put up with so much pain I never imagined I could tolerate,” said Jaffal, a university graduate. The survivors expressed ongoing support for Hezbollah but acknowledged the security breach. They blamed Israel for their wounds. Rights groups have argued the attack was indiscriminate because the pagers detonated in populated areas, and it was nearly impossible to know who was holding the devices or where they were when they exploded. The preacher, Mustafa Choeib, recalled that his two young daughters used to play with his pager and he sometimes found it among their toys. (Associated Press) David Strom was impressed by A.P.’s ingenuity.
You would think that The Associated Press–the news organization that shared office space with Hamas in Gaza for years–would struggle to find ways to become even more morally repulsive than it has been in recent years. You would be wrong. They are a creative bunch. No doubt they have a working group that collaborates with academics and Iranian mullahs to come up with ways to be more Satanic. (Hot Air)
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German newspaper BILD published an exposé on Hamas’ sophisticated photojournalist propaganda, and the Associated Press profiled Hezbollah terrorists as innocent victims of Israel’s pager attack. Jerusalem Post: The issue of staged photos or photos taken out of context came to a head at the end of July when the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that a picture of a Gazan youth being portrayed as starving is actually suffering from a genetic disease.Except photos taken by others at the same site show that the hoard is actually standing opposite freelance photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, commissioned by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, BILD argues. The pots and pans are not being held up to the food distribution site, but the photographer, which Bild claims is staging for means of propaganda.Undistributed photos show Gazans calmly receiving aidAdditionally, BILD adds that his photos at the Gaza aid distribution site show mainly women and children, but that other photos at the same site show mostly adult men calmly waiting for and receiving food. Fteiha did not distribute these ones. (Jerusalem Post)
The AP’s sympathy for Hezbollah terrorists could’ve been a Babylon Bee parody
By Post Editorial Board, Aug. 7, 2025
The Associated Press just made it clear where it stands on the terrorists’ war on Israel: With the terrorists.
How else to read its bizarre puff piece Wednesday sympathizing with the poor, suffering Hezbollah goons injured in Israel’s pager attack last year?
The Babylon Bee couldn’t have come up with a better parody than the 2,100-word feature, “Survivors of Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover” — though that’s not how AP’s Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb meant it.
The two recount their interviews with six people wounded in the attack, all “Hezbollah officials or fighters or members of their families.”
ADVERTISEMENTIsrael, they explain, launched an operation aimed at “harming and disrupting” Hezbollah members. Such nerve, no?
More From Post Editorial BoardExcept that this came as Hezbollah was firing rockets aimed at obliterating innocent Israelis — in “solidarity” with Hamas, which had just waged the most barbaric attack against Jews since the Holocaust.
Jerusalem “boasts” of the attack, seethe AP’s authors, who then cite critics claiming it “may have violated international law, calling it indiscriminate.”
Indiscriminate? It was the most cleanly targeted thing possible: Only Hez heavies had the pagers, and Hezbollah admits those wounded or killed were almost all its terrorist personnel.
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Ah, but the AP pair never actually use the word “terrorist” as they lament the suffering of Hez associates who “lost fingers” and had “shrapnel lodged under their skin.”
Mahdi Sheri, a 23-year-old Hezbollah fighter, “can no longer play football.” Horror of horrors!
“It’s impossible now” for him even to “find a role alongside Hezbollah fighters.”
What? Never able to attack Israel again? Unforgiveable!
Worse: Hezbollah “is left with the financial and psychological burden of thousands who need long-term medical treatment and recovery.”
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Poor, sad terrorist group.
OK, the wire service’s sick bias isn’t news: E.g., after Israel eliminated Hez boss Hassan Nasrallah, the AP’s headline mourned him as “charismatic and shrewd.”
An old and storied agency, the AP may still employ a few objective professionals.
But it’s still become a propaganda tool for terrorists, plain and simple.
CAMERA reports:
In other words, it’s the very existence of this feature as much as its nature that gives away the game. And it’s part of a pattern of biased coverage of Hezbollah.
AP’s Bassem Mroue, one of the piece’s co-authors, previously co-wrote a story about Jawad Nassrallah. Jawad is the son of former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nassrallah. He is also a State Department-designated terrorist, a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 113 and, in the words of a Al Majalla headline, an “online assassin.”
But AP’s headline took a dramatically different tack: “Militant or poet? US sanctions Hezbollah leader’s son.” Judging by the piece, Mroue wanted people to conclude “poet.”
The Associated Press and Mroue were equally kind in their obituary of the father, Hassan Nasrallah. That piece ignored the worst of Nasrallah’s terror attacks while casting him as charismatic, shrewd, revered, pragmatic, and good-humored.
An AP story just after the pager attack absurdly claimed that anyone with any type of pager would have been a victim of the Israeli strike: “the widespread use of pagers in Lebanon meant the detonations cost an enormous number of civilian casualties. They exploded in a moment across the landscape of everyday life — including homes, cars, grocery stores and cafes.”
It meant nothing of the sort, as the only pagers affected were the ones purchased by, and distributed to, Hezbollah operatives. The Associated Press was informed of the brazen error but refused to correct. Then, as now, they preferred pushing a Hezbollah narrative.
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