Al Jazeera or 60 Minutes?

Published January 14, 2025 1:58pm ET



The first thing you notice when watching a recent 60 Minutes segment featuring three former State Department officials who resigned over U.S. support of Israel is that it’s an astonishingly shoddy piece of journalism.

At this point, no one expects dispassionate reporting from the once-legendary investigative news show. Only recently, after all, the program doctored a transcript of a Kamala Harris interview to make her sound more coherent. But the producer of this segment, Ayesha Siddiqi, couldn’t even be bothered to find a single dissenting voice to dispute perfunctorily the many fictions of anti-Israel activists Hala Rharrit and Josh Paul. The segment, “Biden policy on Israel-Gaza sparks warnings, dissent, resignations,” could easily have run on Qatari-state television.

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