Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral was more than a memorial. It was a propaganda event designed to project strength, glorify the regime, and export its ideology to the world.
Understanding who Khamenei was, and what his regime stood for, is essential to understanding the spectacle surrounding his burial.
https://honestreporting.com/the-ayatollahs-funeral-understanding-the-tyrant-behind-the-propaganda/

The UN Commission of Inquiry claims the IDF deliberately targeted children with quadcopters in Gaza.
But the allegations rely on anonymous testimony and unverified claims, without publicly available forensic evidence to back one of the report’s most serious accusations. Read more here👇

https://honestreporting.com/un-coi-report-discredits-itself-with-claims-about-idf-quadcopter-attacks-on-minors/

Two goalkeepers. Two human stories. Two totally different media reactions.

An Iranian goalkeeper jailed for criticizing his regime barely made headlines.
A Palestinian goalkeeper’s death became a global campaign against FIFA.

Why did one story vanish while the other went viral?
https://honestreporting.com/a-tale-of-two-goalkeepers/

Foreign Policy published a piece arguing Israel and the U.S., not the Iranian regime, are destabilizing the region.
The author? Trita Parsi, founder of NIAC, an organization a federal judge previously said acts first as an “advocate for the [Iranian] regime.”

This is how the Iranian regime’s de facto lobbyist gets rebranded as an expert.

Western influencers traveled to Iran to celebrate the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei, helping sanitize one of the world's most repressive regimes. While the regime imprisons dissidents, executes protesters, and funds terror proxies across the region, these influencers presented a carefully curated image designed for social media.

Rep. Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli soldiers during a West Bank visit. But inconsistencies between his account and the IDF’s response went largely unchallenged by the media.
Basic questions about what happened, how long he was held, and whether he was actually detained were never properly addressed.

Turkey was the first Muslim-majority state to recognize Israel.
Now, Turkey's leaders are calling Israel's very existence into question.
Here’s how antisemitism and Turkish expansionism have put the two former regional allies on a collision course.

For nearly three years, CPJ’s Gaza “journalist” list was treated as authoritative by major media outlets. Now, after HonestReporting documented extensive terror affiliations among those listed, CPJ has removed names, launched a review, and ousted board member Nika Soon-Shiong.
The question now is whether the outlets that repeated CPJ’s claims will correct the record.

The UN COI, with zero ballistics or military background, claim they can read IDF intent from gunshot wounds.

No military experts. No ballistics. No exclusion of Hamas fire.

Just speculation dressed up as “reasonable grounds” to claim the IDF deliberately and systematically targeted Palestinian minors.

Here's why the methodology of the report should be scrutinized 👇 https://honestreporting.com/un-coi-report-divines-intent-from-gunshots-in-unclear-investigatory-process/

In July, Iran’s state funeral was flooded with global cameras. In January, during a bloody civilian crackdown, the world was locked out.
How do authoritarian regimes shape international news? Not by faking images, but by deciding when to turn the camera tap on and off.

For centuries, Islamic Jew-hate demanded Jewish submission, not Jewish destruction. Hebron 1929 and October 7, 2023 mark its radicalization into something closer to the ideology behind the Holocaust: "redemptive antisemitism," the belief that the world is healed only once the Jews are gone. Not politics. Not "occupation." A genocidal ideology, ancient in root, modern in form.

Read Ben Freeman's full article here 👇
https://honestreporting.com/from-hebron-to-nova-the-unbroken-thread-of-muslim-jew-hate/

Hamas' updated casualty figures show women and children account for less than half the dead.
Yet outlets are still running the claim that Israel targeted women and children specifically, even when Hamas' own numbers show men are the majority.

Why is the media still twisting the narrative?

From the Beqaa Valley to South America, Hezbollah has built more than a terror network.

It has built itself into a state within a state, funded by the Iranian regime, financed through narco-trafficking, and propped up by a social system that runs parallel to Lebanon's own.

Here's how Hezbollah has built itself into a global shadow state.

Dog whistles don't have to be explicit to be dangerous. Coded language, historical tropes, and seemingly innocuous phrases can normalize antisemitism while giving speakers plausible deniability. Recognizing the pattern is the first step to challenging it.

Read Ben Freeman's full report here 👇
https://honestreporting.com/the-dangers-of-dog-whistles/

Hamas has chosen a new leader.

Khalil al-Hayya is no "moderate" or "pragmatist." A founding member of Hamas and close confidant of Yahya Sinwar, he helped shape the movement's strategy long before October 7 and is expected to continue it.

Read our analysis of who he is and what his leadership could mean for the future of the Gaza war and ceasefire.

CNN’s Isobel Yeung went "Inside Hezbollah" to understand how the terror group is still standing.

What viewers got instead was a parade of Hezbollah operatives, supporters, and weapons smugglers whose claims were met with little scrutiny and even less context.

The Iranian regime has uranium enriched to 60%. Weapons-grade starts at 90%. If much of that stockpile sits inside Pickaxe Mountain, as intelligence assessments suggest, the decision on whether to strike just got a lot more urgent.

Here's what's really happening inside Pickaxe Mountain and why it might be the regime’s most dangerous threat.

Tisha B'Av is more than a day of mourning. It is a reminder that the Jewish connection to Jerusalem did not begin in 1948 or 1967, it has been preserved through prayer, ritual and collective memory for over 2,000 years. Understanding this fast is key to understanding Jewish indigeneity and why Jerusalem has never been "just another city."

Read Ben Freeman’s full reflection on how Tisha B’Av reveals the Jewish people’s unbroken bond with Jerusalem 👇

https://honestreporting.com/the-ninth-of-av-why-jews-never-forgot-jerusalem/

Why is the International Federation of Journalists stealth editing people from its list of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza?

All eight have ties to terrorist organizations, but without a public explanation from IFJ, the reason for the removal is unknown.
IFJ should publicly answer why these changes have been made or what it is trying to hide.

The media ran 984 stories on "settler violence" in the West Bank and just 9 on Palestinian attacks against Israelis. That's a 109:1 coverage disparity.

Even after attacks by Jewish civilians fell 25%, coverage kept climbing and expanded beyond violence to frame stories about agriculture and livelihoods through the same lens.

The headlines weren't just reporting events. They were reinforcing a narrative.

The problem with The Guardian isn't one anti-Israel article.
It's an editorial pattern.

This week alone, it distorted Tisha B'Av, recycled famine narratives, reframed Boy George's pro-Israel song, and omitted key context on how Hamas exploited the healthcare system in Gaza.

Across every topic, the pattern is the same: context is sacrificed to sustain a narrative.