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Al Jazeera’s Academic Arm Platforms Hamas Denialism and Anti-Israel Propaganda
Toby Dershowitz
December 8, 2025

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, the research arm of Qatar’s state-backed media giant, co-hosted an academic conference last week in Qatar’s Education City that whitewashed Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre — where terrorists raped, mutilated, and murdered 1,200 people — and dismissed UN-verified sexual violence and other terrorist acts as Israeli fabrications. Al Jazeera partnered with Hamad Bin Khalifa University to host the November 29-30 gathering, titled “International Media and the War on Gaza: Modalities of Discourse and the Clash of Narratives,” which drew academics to “deconstruct Western narratives” and the alleged role of Western media in producing “propaganda manipulating international public opinion.” READ MORE