A recent article at The Intercept reported on a new survey that found “cable news viewers are more supportive of Israel’s war effort, less likely to think Israel is committing war crimes, and less interested in the war in general.” It's likely that these same people are the most likely to believe that student peace camps on campus protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza are anti-Semitic and violent attacks on society, and that actual violent attacks on students -- by police and by thugs that the police allow to attack them -- are justified. Here are three recent examples of what you can find on cable "news." On April 29 on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough complained that “18 and 19-year-old people” were now “running college campuses” – with the permission of professors, because "outside agitators" had managed to take over and "shut down debate" while spouting genocidal chants that threaten Jews with death. In his rant, he failed to mention that large numbers of Jewish students across the country were participating in the protests. And, speaking of shutting down debate, Scarborough never mentioned what students were protesting, much less offered even one side of a debate on whether they were right or wrong. Scarobrough smeared protesters as “Hamas on college campuses” – echoing his fact-challenged MSNBC cheerleading for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he’d smeared peace advocates as “leftist stooges for anti-American causes.” On May 1 on CNN, Dana Bash described "destruction, violence, and hate" on campuses, showing police attacking students but implying that students had caused the violence, and then showing pro-war thugs attacking students but implying that both sides were to blame. She then said it was "unclear" how many of the student protesters were actually students, citing uninformed comments by the Mayor of New York to claim that "professional outside agitators" were running the show. The unabashedly pro-Israel Bash denounced the very idea of a ceasefire, claiming that there’d been a ceasefire on October 6th. She concluded by claiming that protests have made Jews in the United States afraid in a manner similar to 1930s Germany. On May 2 on Fox News, this headline "Police at UCLA clear anti-Israel encampment, detain agitators" led coverage that amounted to celebration of police violence. Another headline read: "Portland State University anti-Israel protester charges at officer, gets just desserts." And another: "California police confirm more than 130 anti-Israel agitators arrested at UCLA." At Fox, it’s standard to label students who oppose genocide as "anti-Israel agitators," and "pro-Hamas protesters." Click here to send an email to these cable news outlets to tell them to choose journalism and debate over smearing of student protesters.  | 
