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Rantz: KING 5, Seattle business owner blame Israel for Hamas terrorism
Oct 13, 2023, 7:24 PM

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BY JASON RANTZ
The Jason Rantz Show, 3pm-7pm on KTTH
KING 5 featured a Seattle business owner blaming Israel for suffering a
terrorist attack by Hamas. The report is rabidly antisemitic, offering
such a one-sided take on the terrorist attack that you can reasonably
question if it was actually produced by Hamas. Maybe that’s why KING 5’s
news director isn’t responding to questions about whether or not the
report met their editorial standards.

Far-left reporter Cornelius Hocker, known for inserting politics into
work, featured Yalla Seattle owner and chef Taylor Cheney. She’s using
her walk-up restaurant to raise money for young Gazans caught in the war
Hamas started.

But if all you learned about the war was from this KING 5 story, you’d
think it was started by Israel and that Hamas terrorists are the victims.

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Shockingly ignorant, rabidly antisemitic
Hocker frames the report by blaming Israel. He introduces his story by
saying Cheney “says she had to do something to help the Palestinians who
have suffered under the Israeli government for decades. The
Israeli-Hamas war is only making things worse.” This is shockingly
biased and historically ignorant. But we can tell where this is going.

“It’s not hard to understand why the Israeli-Hamas war that’s killed at
least 1,100 Palestinians and injured thousands more upsets her,” Hocker
said of Cheney. He does not once mention that Hamas slaughtered Jews in
a surprise terrorist attack that resulted in Israeli defense. He makes
it sound like Israel struck first.

Hocker then pitches Cheney’s business, noting that she’d offer 100% of
Thursday’s profits to a nonprofit to help Palestinian humanitarian
relief efforts. And, again, he throws out some casualty numbers
exclusively blaming Israel for responding to a terrorist attack.

“According to the United Nations, at least 200,000 Palestinians have
been displaced, running for their lives trying to avoid the Israeli
airstrikes,” he says. To blame Israel even more, he then cuts to Cheney
who baselessly implies Israel is targeting civilians: “Hospitals are
getting bombed, schools are getting bombed.” Hamas stores weapons and
hosts situational operations offices in hospitals, schools, and mosques
so that when Israel rightly strikes them, easily confused reporters like
Hocker and woefully uneducated chefs will portray Israel as evil.

The result of not being educated
Hocker, who has an understanding of Middle East politics that likely
extends no further than watching the trailer to Apple TV+’s “Tehran,”
follows up by claiming “the Israeli government attacks… quickly turning
into a humanitarian crisis for innocent civilians.” Who is Israel
“attacking”? Hocker’s sloppy (or intentionally misleading) reporting
makes it sound like they’re pre-emptively striking innocent civilians.
There’s no mention, of course, that Israel does what Hamas doesn’t even
consider: warning innocent civilians before they strike targets. In
fact, there’s also no mention that Hamas killed children, raped women,
and captured elderly hostages.

“If you don’t know the history of the Israeli government and the
occupied Palestinian territories, Taylor (Cheney) wants you to educate
yourself,” Hocker declares, setting up the chef as an authority on the
issue though not explaining what “Palestinian territories” are being
“occupied.”

“It’s not out of nowhere, like, Hamas wouldn’t exist if they were not
being occupied, being subjugated to the things that they’re dealing
with,” Taylor notes, seemingly unaware that she wouldn’t be allowed to
own a business (or speak freely) if she lived in Gaza.

Not until the very end of the report does Hocker reference Hamas, which
he calls a “militant group,” was responsible for striking first in a
terrorist attack. But he does blame Israel for Hamas existing, noting
that it was formed “to push back on Israeli occupation.”

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Was this intentional?
This isn’t merely irresponsible, factually inaccurate, offensively
biased reporting. It’s dangerous misinformation feeding the highly
violent and volatile radical left that has been rallying locally to
celebrate Hamas, claiming the decapitating or burning babies alive and
raping women is justified “resistance.”

How in the world does something so offensive air on KING 5? This is a
station in desperate need for Jewish employees and, perhaps, a history
lesson. It could have easily covered the plight of innocent civilians
caught up in the war that their government started. Instead, Hocker and
his terrorist-sympathizing chef decided to blame Israel.

Julie Wolfe, the news director, did not respond to requests for comments
when asked if this met the station’s editorial guidelines. After I
emailed twice for comment, however, KING 5 did update the written piece,
according to a timestamp, but did not explain what it changed. Wolfe
should be embarrassed; I have no doubt Hocker is proud of his extremist
work. Does KING 5 even have editorial guidelines for a story like this
to air? Hocker’s report most definitely met Hamas’ guidelines.

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