During last week’s 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, Qatari-backed news network Al Jazeera was given a platform to further their typical propaganda against Israel. At an award show supposedly meant to highlight journalistic integrity and quality, honoring a network known to report heavily in favor of terrorists and Islamists would seem contrary to the purpose of the event. Instead, Al Jazeera’s blatant bias was unsurprisingly applauded by the liberal media representatives in attendance.
Al Jazeera’s flagship show, Fault Lines, was nominated for five news awards across four categories, making it the most nominated non-American network of the night. Fault Lines won two of those awards, and one of the award show’s presenters also worked for Al Jazeera. These moments on stage provided Al Jazeera’s staff multiple opportunities to push their messaging.
Al Jazeera’s Rhana Natour gave a speech before presenting awards that was anything but subtle. Natour, the director and producer of “All That Remains,” an episode of Fault Lines that very clearly criticized Israel for their operations in Gaza, urged journalists to “question powerful institutions and powerful people who think they answer to no one.”
“All That Remains” was one of many examples of anti-Israeli bias from Fault Lines. Al Jazeera had aired seven episodes since December of 2022 against Israel in some way. One episode highlighted the “suppression of Palestine advocacy on college campuses” while ignoring the significant problem of anti-Semitism on campuses. Another references “Israel’s US-backed illegal siege on Gaza” in its subtitle.
Ultimately, it was not any of Al Jazeera’s anti-Israeli episodes that won an award. Instead, “Children of the Darien Gap,” a report recounting the dangers of the migration route from Ecuador to Panama, received recognition.
That did not stop Al Jazeera from making their award speech against Israel.
The episode’s editor, Adrienne Haspel, came up to receive the award. “This is very unexpected,” she started as her team behind her passed out pre-made posters to hold up as she spoke. Rather than speak on the story she edited, the one which actually was awarded, Haspel began to speak on an unrelated episode, one about Gaza:
I’d like to switch the subject here. I work at Al Jazeera, and we at Fault Lines have made five films about Gaza so far. And the footage that I got from there, from Gaza, I worked with, and the context to what it means to us people will haunt me for the rest of my life. And I’d like to read a quote from a doctor who volunteered in Gaza with many others ... She, with many others, realized the pattern that Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot children.
Of course, that claim had no basis aside from Al Jazeera's own biased reporting.
Haspel cited the example of the death of Salma Hussein Jaber, the daughter of a photographer who was caught in the crossfire in Gaza. The facts she provided were outright wrong, however. Haspel, despite coming prepared with an image of the little girl, gave the incorrect date for the event, placing it in March of 2024 rather than December of 2023. She also claimed the father was an Al Jazeera cameraman. He was not.
He was actually a member of UNRWA, a United Nations aid organization under investigation for backing Hamas and other terrorist organizations at the time of writing. All the while, her colleagues held signs behind her, which read “Targeting Journalists Is a Crime.” These signs were a response to the recent seizure of an Al Jazeera office in Palestine. Israel shut down the station because of Al Jazeera's “incitement to and support of terrorism” in the region.
Despite being a mouthpiece for Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Middle East, Al Jazeera was given equal platform with American news networks to spread its anti-Israel propaganda.
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CBS The 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards
June 25, 2025
8:47 p.m. EST
ANNOUNCER: Our next presenter is an award-winning reporter for Al Jazeera International USA. Please welcome Rhana Natour.
RHANA NATOUR: To be a journalist is to grapple with forces that make your job difficult every single day. It’s to seek clarity even in that thick fog of war. It’s to be thrown into a web of lies and to still emerge with the truth. It’s to question powerful institutions and powerful people who think they answer to no one.
Report, verify, corroborate; this is the job. A journalist must seek and report the truth to their audience no matter the challenges, no matter the issue, no matter the parties involved. Tonight we celebrate the excellence of this difficult, important work, whether it is abroad, in the Spanish language, or in our own hometowns. Here is our next batch of Emmy nominees, who did their jobs and more:
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9:05 p.m. EST
MORGAN CHESKY: And the Emmy goes to (pauses) “Children of the Darien Gap,” Fault Lines, Al Jazeera International USA.
ANNOUNCER: Accepting the Emmy, Adrienne Haspel, editor.
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ADRIENNE HASPEL: Thank you. This is very unexpected. So, first of all, thank you to the Flores family, whose journey we followed through the Darien Gap. They’re fine. We asked them and they’re fine, even under the circumstances that’s – what’s going on in this country, and I’m very nervous.
I’d like to switch the subject here. I work at Al Jazeera, and we at Fault Lines have made five films about Gaza so far. And the footage that I got from there, from Gaza, I worked with, and the context to what it means to us people will haunt me for the rest of my life. And I’d like to read a quote from a doctor who volunteered in Gaza with many others, Tammy – sorry I can’t pronounce your name. She, with many others, realized the pattern that Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot children, and this is what she said:
“They say that Gaza is the graveyard of human rights. For me, it was really the graveyard of my belief in the human race being able to challenge the worst impulses. I don’t know that I can ever get that back.”
This is Salma Hussein Jaber, the four-year-old daughter of one of our cameramen. She was shot in the neck March, 2024, and she died in her father’s arms as they were trying to flee to a safezone. As we are gathering here, the Gaza genocide is raging on. A new term was coined: aid massacre. Israeli soldiers kill people lining up for food daily. Please don’t look away. Thank you.