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The Media Cast the Michigan Synagogue Terrorist as a Grief-Stricken Victim. Actually, He Was in the Family Business: Hezbollah
March 30, 2026

…“The Michigan Synagogue Attacker Was a Quiet Restaurant Worker,” the New York Times told us the day after the attack. This is how the New York Times described a man whose dying wish was to murder Jewish babies. He was destroyed by his grief, per the Times: The article explains that Ghazali’s brothers were killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon. But the New York Times concealed a rather important fact from its audience: Ghazali’s brothers worked for Hezbollah—in the terrorist organization’s rocket unit. This was apparently the family business. Why would the New York Times journalists keep such an important fact from their readers? Well, because you’d feel less sympathy for a man whose brothers were killed if you knew they were terrorists shooting rockets at innocent civilians. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST NPR didn’t quote a single member of Michigan synagogue after attack — but interviewed terrorist’s pals in Lebanon NPR didn’t manage to quote a single member of the Michigan synagogue that was attacked by a crazed Hezbollah-supporting terrorist last month — but did manage to track down his pals 6,000 miles away in Lebanon, a new report reveals. Now even NPR’s public editor is criticizing the lefty broadcaster for the stunning oversight. Instead of focusing on the victims in the heinous attack, a March 14 “All Things Considered” segment sent an NPR reporter to the Lebanon hometown of Ayman Ghazali, 41, who just days earlier had rammed his truck into a Jewish preschool at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township.