Cenk Uygur has a routine. He says October 7 was terrible. He condemns Hamas. Then comes the number: Israel has supposedly carried out “ 75 October 7ths ” since then. The point is obvious. Multiply the deaths, multiply the guilt. By Cenk’s reckoning, Israel must be dozens of times worse than Hamas. That is a serious accusation built on a childish way of judging a war. Run Cenk’s Calculation Through World War II Allied bombing killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Germany and Japan. The US Strategic Bombing Survey estimated roughly 300,000 civilian deaths in Germany and 330,000 in Japan . Apply Cenk’s method to those figures. Divide 630,000 by roughly 1,200 people killed on October 7. You get more than 500 October 7ths . If you use a broader estimate of 1.5 million Allied-caused civilian deaths, the result exceeds 1,200 October 7ths . I would not present that larger total as a settled historical figure; it depends on which campaigns and causes of death are included. We do not ne...

Do Zionists Care More About Israel Than America? The “Israel First” Accusation Ana Kasparian recently said she liked Zohran Mamdani because he does not bend to people who “care more about Zionism than what’s best for the people of NYC.” The suggestion is familiar from The Young Turks: if an American draws a firm line over Israel, that person must care more about Israel than the people they represent. It is an easy accusation to make. It is much harder to defend. What Fetterman Actually Said Senator John Fetterman has said that if the Democratic Party formally turns against Israel and refuses it any aid, he would have to reconsider remaining a Democrat. That is a political red line. It does not, by itself, tell us that he would put Israel’s interests ahead of America’s. Consider why someone might hold that position. Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said the October 7 attack would be followed by many more similar attacks until Israel had been extinguished. An American who takes those threats s...

Beneath the "Unaligned" Facade Ana Kasparian presents herself as an independent voice for truth, justice, and fairness. Her Substack is literally titled "Unaligned." She claims to be a feminist and champion of the oppressed, and over the past decade or two, she has done genuinely noteworthy work in these areas. She deserves credit for that work. In recent years, Ana has even broken with far-left orthodoxy on some issues. She spoke out about homelessness and crime in California after being assaulted by a vagrant, challenging the left's tendency to deny the problem. She's taken sensible positions on trans rights, refusing to embrace the far-left view that trans women should compete in women's sports. She claims to collaborate with elements across the political spectrum - working with figures like Matt Gaetz, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson when they find common ground on issues like campaign finance reform. Yet this narrative of principled independ...

The Young Turks claim they "never play with the facts" and represent "unflinching honesty." Their Israel coverage tells a different story. Here are the TEN most egregious lies TYT spreads to their audience. 1. AIPAC Represents Foreign Interests The Lie : TYT repeatedly claims AIPAC is a "foreign lobbyist" group pushing Israel's agenda on America. The Truth : AIPAC comprises American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to advocate for causes they care about - exactly as the political system is designed to function. Italian Americans advocate for Italy. Greek Americans advocate for Greece. Only when the country is Israel and the community is Jewish does TYT call this "foreign lobbying" - a centuries-old anti-Semitic trope.   Deep Dive 2. Israel Steals Land and Pursues "Greater Israel" The Lie : TYT claims Israel "steals" land, pursues territorial expansion, and pursues a "Greater Israel" agenda....

The Great Hypocrisy: How The Young Turks Betray Their Own Mission Statement On their website , The Young Turks proclaim a mission built on truth-telling and honest journalism. They state: "TYT has a bright line rule that we never play with the facts. Our unflinching honesty for over twenty years has made us the most trusted show in digital media." They promise their audience "open-hearts and open-minds." They claim to report facts, analyze context, and refuse to bow to political leaders or parties. They position themselves as an antidote to establishment media bias, built on independent thought and honest analysis. These are noble principles. They are also principles that Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and The Young Turks systematically violate in their coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Promise vs. Reality: The Facts Don't Lie (But TYT Does) TYT's Promise : "We never play with the facts." TYT's Reality : Systematic deception through lies of...

Mischaracterizing AIPAC as "Foreign Lobbyists" Cenk, Ana, and the TYT team routinely lie to their audience that AIPAC represents "foreign interests" - implying that it's an outside entity pushing a foreign agenda on American politics. This is fundamentally dishonest. AIPAC is comprised entirely of American citizens who support Israel's survival and prosperity. These are Americans with a political interest, just as American supporters of Irish independence, Italian development, or Greek interests exist and have their own advocacy groups. AIPAC members are not foreign agents; they are American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to advocate for a country they care about, financially supporting that advocacy, and using their resources to influence American political outcomes. That is precisely how the American political system is designed to function. The Dual Loyalty Trope When TYT paints AIPAC as "Israel First," they are leaning on a ce...

The False Claim of Land Theft Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian repeatedly lie to their audience that Israel "steals" land from its neighbors. This characterization has become a cornerstone of TYT's Israel coverage, yet the claim lacks any serious evidentiary foundation. The actual historical record contradicts the "land theft" narrative entirely. Israel's territorial control has expanded only in response to military threats originating from specific territories. When Israel has taken security control of areas - whether in the Golan Heights, Gaza, southern Lebanon, or the West Bank - these actions have followed, not preceded, attacks and threats from those territories. The pattern is consistent and documented: Israel responds to military threats by establishing security control to prevent future attacks, rather than initiating conflict to seize territory for expansion or settlement. Perhaps most significantly, when measuring Israel's actual territorial footpr...

TYT Lies To Their Audience For years now, Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and most of the commentators on The Young Turks network have been broadcasting strong anti-Israel commentary to their viewers, then insisting that criticism of their coverage is really just about Israel being "untouchable." In Cenk's exact words - "no-one is allowed to criticize beloved Israel." You hear this talking point over and over again if you watch their YouTube channel - it is repeated dozens of times daily. It's easy to see why their audience believes it, given how often they hear it repeated. It does not reflect reality though. Nobody - literally nobody - has ever said that the  problem with TYT's coverage is that they criticize Israel . This is what logicians call a strawman argument - you defeat a position that the other side never took, then act like you've won the debate. When Cenk Uygur and his nephew Hasan Piker - who said on Twitch that he would "vote for Hamas...

Cenk Uygur claims repeatedly that he backs a two-state solution, telling audiences he wants Israelis and Palestinians to live safely, securely and in peace. It sounds great. The problem is that Uygur's vision is completely disconnected from reality. TYT and Cenk systematically mislead their audience into believing that the Palestinians' goal is statehood. This is a blatant lie. The Palestinians have never demonstrated any interest in having their own state. The two-state solution and Palestinian statehood is a Western fantasy, something various politicians and ideologues dreamed up. For many years, much of Israel's population supported it too. But the past couple decades, especially after October 7, have changed that calculus. When TYT tells their audience that Palestinians seek a two-state solution living peacefully alongside Israel, they're deliberately misrepresenting the Palestinian position. And they're doing the same with regard to the Palestinians' spons...

The October 7 Catalyst TYT's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict has long favored the Palestinian narrative, but October 7 marked a turning point. That's when they went all in on the dishonesty, cranking up their anti-Israel bias to extreme levels. Now they're throwing around the word "genocide" dozens, sometimes a hundred times daily, describing the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran using the most inflammatory language possible. Conveniently, they never mention that these territories are controlled by and harbor terrorists who have launched thousands of attacks against Israel - all with the openly stated aim of commiting a genocide of Israelis.  Who Started The Oct 7 Gaza War? TYT almost never reminds their viewers about a basic fact: who actually started the 2023 Gaza war. Thousands of Hamas fighters and thousands of ordinary Palestinian civilians crossed into Israel and carried out the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust . They did it on orders fr...

Israel is the Only Country on Earth Targeted for Annihilation by Its Neighbors The Right to Exist Supporters of Israel believe the Jewish people have a right to self-determination in one modest territory, from which they cannot be expelled or eradicated. This belief sits at the core of Zionism. When the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel's legitimacy comes up in discussion, Cenk Uygur has a remarkably dishonest response. Instead of addressing Palestinian recalcitrance, he flips the issue, saying "but Israel already exists - it's the Palestinian State whose right to exist is denied." On its face, this argument makes no sense. When people say Israel has a right to exist, they mean a right to exist without its citizens being murdered, without constant attacks, without being targeted for annihilation by its neighbors. That right has never been afforded to Israel by Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran. Cenk's claim that Israel's right to exist has been res...