A reporter for CBS News repeatedly posted anti-Israel vitriol on social media — once asking, “Are the Jews human like us?” — according to a damning report by a media watchdog.
Marwan Al-Ghoul, 61, has been the Tiffany Network’s go-to reporter inside the war-torn enclave after the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists. Foreign journalists cannot get access to Gaza without permission from the Israeli military.
His coverage over the past year has been lauded by colleagues at CBS News, which recently found itself embroiled in controversy for reprimanding morning show host Tony Dokoupil over his critical interview of anti-Israel author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Al-Ghoul’s objectivity was called into question after his anti-Israel social media posts were uncovered in a report by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), a pro-Israel media watchdog.
In one Facebook post from May 2022, the veteran reporter allegedly wrote: “34 years of news coverage can be summed up: Are the Jews human like us?,” according to the report released last week.
Another troubling alleged post came on a different Oct. 7, in 2018, the day a Palestinian gunned down two Israeli parents near Tel Aviv, when Al-Ghoul wrote, “The West Bank embraces Gaza, Blessed are the hands,” according to CAMERA.
The report also cited another 2018 Facebook post by Al-Ghoul, saying that “America and Israel are heading toward their demise, but when?”
Al-Ghoul has also allegedly “liked” several antisemitic posts.
He gave a thumbs-up to a Facebook user who posted: “By no means do they [Jews] count as human, these are monsters in a human body,” the CAMERA report found.
Jonah Cohen, CAMERA’s communications director, told The Post that Al-Ghoul’s comments are “deeply troubling.”
He also called into question CBS News’ “commitment to ethical journalism and responsible reporting.”
One CBS News reporter, however, praised Al-Ghoul a day after the first anniversary of the Hamas cross-border raid into Israel that killed 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage.
Emmet Lyons wrote that Al-Ghoul “is an incredibly courageous man and a fantastic reporter,” in a post on X.
Al-Ghoul’s son Fares, who claims to work as a cameraman for CBS on his Instagram account, also has a history of praising terrorism against the Jewish state.
CBS News did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
“The bombing of a Tel Aviv city with resistance missiles… God is the greatest,” Fares Marwan Al-Ghoul posted on Facebook in November 2012, CAMERA found.
Later that month, the son allegedly wrote: “Allah is the greatest, the time of busses [sic] exploding is back, oh world, Allah is great.”
CBS denied that Fares is its employee in a statement to National Review.
The network has faced several recent firestorms. Earlier this month, Dokoupil was publicly rebuked by CBS News president Wendy McMahon and her lieutenant Adrienne Roark during a staff meeting for his grilling of Coates.
Dokoupil had told the author that his book, which devoted a significant section to the Holy Land, could be found “in the backpack of an extremist.”
The CBS News brass said the interview was biased and did not live up to the network’s editorial standards.
The network also allegedly instructed staffers in late August not to refer to Jerusalem as being part of Israel.
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