I'll admit to not paying much attention to Sky News over the last several years while holding the passive opinion that they couldn't be any worse than the BBC. The last week has exposed my ignorance, and I've got yet another example to share.

To provide some background, on Thanksgiving, I wrote a piece detailing a Sky News journalist asking perhaps the dumbest question I've ever heard. In it, she supposed that Israel releasing more Palestinian terrorists than Hamas was releasing hostages somehow showed Israel doesn't value Palestinian lives. 

(See: British 'Journalist' Asks Perhaps the Dumbest Question Ever of Israeli Spokesman, Leaves Him Stunned)

BURLEY: I was speaking to a hostage negotiator this morning. he made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised, promised to release as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has said that it will release, and he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that, does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?

Apparently, Sky News journalists are so vapid that they can't understand that Hamas always demands more terrorists be returned than hostages when these deals happen. The idea that Israel would purposely release more terrorists than necessary just to show they don't value Palestinian lives is objectively insane. It makes no sense whatsoever. 

Sky News wasn't done debasing itself, though. A few days later, another journalist on the network spouted Hamas talking points to actually suggest that Israel should be grateful to the terrorist group. 

JOURNALIST: It is Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza who's negotiating. He's wheeling and dealing all of this and currently deciding who comes out and who doesn't despite Israel's bombardment, over 50 days. Despite the huge death toll that we've seen. So have your operations actually been successful?

That specific journalist then did the same thing later in the same day, again confronting an Israeli official with blatant terrorist-supporting talking points, and less than a week later, it's happening again. 

They were held in reasonable conditions, reportedly, though those held above ground lived with the fear of being killed in Israel's bombardment.

— Dominic Waghorn (@DominicWaghorn) November 28, 2023

In other words, isn't Hamas just great? Aren't they so humane? How dare you compare the terrorist government that raped women, chopped off genitals, and burned babies to ISIS? 

It's astonishing that anyone could write that post and not feel abject shame before hitting send. Keep in mind that the report he's citing is anonymously sourced, and obviously, some hostages were killed while in custody since their bodies have been found (and their wounds were not consistent with dying from airstrikes). 

Meanwhile, we do have actual direct testimony from the hostages saying that Hamas physically tortured them, threatened children with guns if they cried, and forced them to watch the October 7th massacre as a form of psychological torture. What great hosts, right?

Aunt of one of French child hostages released says he was beaten by many people incl. civilians as taken into Gaza; each time a child hostage cried it was threatened with a gun to shut up ; Hamas forced children to watch films of Oct 7 pogrom murders. Eitan’s dad still a hostage https://t.co/4UlFOHedQD

— Emma-Kate Symons (@eksymons) November 28, 2023

Shock of shocks, Dominic Waghorn isn't making posts about that. I wonder why? 

We all know why. Sky News is overtly pro-Hamas, and some of that is possibly driven by antisemitism held by its journalists and producers. If there's an alternate explanation, I'm all ears. When a network consistently goes out of its way to provide cover for murderous terrorists, it has no credibility to speak on any other issue.