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Rantz: KOMO reporter caught lying about Seattle’s Hamas rally
Oct 15, 2023, 5:30 PM | Updated: Oct 16, 2023, 12:33 pm

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BY JASON RANTZ
The Jason Rantz Show, 3pm-7pm on KTTH
KOMO-TV’s Joel Moreno was caught fabricating details about Seattle’s pro-Hamas rally over the weekend.

Roughly 1,000 pro-Hamas rallygoers took over Westlake Park to support
Hamas, a terrorist group that slaughtered Jews, killing babies, raping
women, and destroying kibbutzim. Moreno covered the rally for KOMO. He
said the rallygoers were “calling for peace” and “humanitarian aid” in Gaza.

But Moreno is being willfully dishonest.

The rallygoers were chanting about wanting to destroy Israel. They even
openly supported violence against Jews. And Moreno knows it. I have a
video of him listening to the chants promoting violence.

Revisionist history
Moreno’s piece goes to great lengths to portray the pro-Hamas rally as mainstream.

“Both Muslims and Jews attended the event, holding signs saying ‘Free Palestine’ and demanding that the focus be on restoring human rights to
the people of Gaza, as well as providing humanitarian aid for the
war-torn region,” Moreno wrote.

Though Moreno notes that “the rally included fiery rhetoric from a
series of speakers,” he didn’t quote anyone to explain. In fact, he didn’t even quote any of the chants in his written piece. The only sign
he notes is “Free Palestine.” What’s worse, he downplays the terrorist attack, calling it “the latest incident in the decades-old conflict.” He refers to the terrorists as “Hamas fighters.”

Moreno must moonlight as a publicist for pro-Hamas rallygoers. His
report sanitized the Jewish and Israeli hatred on full display.


Destroying Israel
The rallygoers praised Hamas, declaring, “There is only one solution. Intifada revolution,” and “Long live the intifada.” An intifada is a violent uprising. They waived signs claiming “resistance is not
terrorism.” Tell that to the families with kidnapped kids who are now
used as shields. Or the man who huddled with dozens of others in a small
bomb shelter, miraculously surviving as Hamas tossed a grenade inside.

“Over the last few days, the people of Gaza have broken out of their
prison and have reminded us of their right to resist Zionist
colonization, occupation, and blockade, and their right to resist and
live in an occupied Palestine,” one speaker said, justifying the rapes, kidnapping, and murder. She went on to blame Jews for murdering Gazans
“in cold blood.”

They chanted, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” This references erasing Israel (and every Jew in it) between the Jordan River
and the Mediterranean sea. They similarly chanted, “We don’t want two-state. We want 1948!” This was before Israel was officially formed
and recognized as a state. The land, however, belongs to the Jewish
people ancestrally.

They even went so far as to praise the terrorist attack: “Palestine is
our demand. No peace on stolen land. Intifada. Intifada.”

There were no calls for peace; there were calls to end Israel. At the
start of the event, a speaker declared “Zionists” the enemy, warning the crowd to “not talk to Zionists.” This means, “don’t talk to Jews.”

Moreno knows all this, but he chose to tell you a fable about the march.
I know he knows this because I saw him and his crew at the rally. At one
point, it looked like he was being hassled and prevented from filming by
one of the pro-Hamas “security” team members. I caught that on video,
then continued to record as the crowd chanted, “No peace on stolen land” while Moreno watched on. That’s the literal opposite of what Moreno claimed.


Why is he lying about what happened?
I don’t easily call reporters liars. I usually give the benefit of the
doubt, often against my gut, because I don’t want to believe a
professional tasked with telling you the news has an ulterior motive.
I’d rather it just be an unconscious bias. But I think Moreno is lying
here. So the question is why?

Seattle is a deeply blue city with a vocal activist class. They love to
bully those with whom they disagree, and that includes reporters. They
even assault the ones they don’t like. The city also has far-left
reporters who don’t hide their political positions. They have no problem framing stories to meet their political agenda.

I obviously don’t know why Moreno was lying. I imagine it’s a
combination of wanting to give far-left Seattle what he think it wants
and is liberal himself. But the reason doesn’t matter because the end
result is the same.


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Dangerous mainstreaming of hate
The weekend rally would not be downplayed if it were for white supremacy.

Moreno wouldn’t mainstream the hate; he’d rightly call it out. Doing otherwise would set a dangerous precedent and signal to the community
that white supremacy is acceptable. So why should we accept normalizing anti-Semitic hate?

The pro-Hamas crowd is celebrating a terrorist attack. Some justify it
because they’ve convinced themselves that Hamas is the oppressor instead
of the ones cruelly oppressing Palestinians. Others pretend it’s a
Jewish conspiracy and that there was no terrorist attack. And they feel comfortable going out in public to march while chanting their hate. Why
is that? Because Seattle has normalized it. The people who tell you
“words are violence” and that microaggressions can destroy a person are chanting to wipe an entire country off the map.

Soon, the people calling for a genocide against Jews in Israel will
start acting it out here at home. They hate Jews. Moreno may be okay not pushing back against that hate. As a Jew, I’m not okay with it.

Listen to the Jason Rantz Show on weekday afternoons from 3-6 p.m. on
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