The Times’ investigative reporter has an interesting pedigree to bring to the subject matter, that subject being the modern day holocaust we are all witnessing in real time in Israel. His father is Palestinian, his mother is an Israeli Jew. I’m tempted to play the game he’s been playing since the beginning of the terrorist attacks over the weekend by the monsters of Hamas, and say true reportage would call into doubt his ancestry, that there’s no independent verification of that being true. But I have eyes that see and ears that can hear. I possess a functioning brain stem that can process information and discern whether things are true or not. And more importantly, I can adjust my analysis to gauge whether or not something overall rings true, even if some of the data in the claim may not be 100% accurate. And even more important than that, I can process all of the imperfect data coming in, and still make a moral determination on who the victims are and who the inhumane monsters are that need dispatching from this Earth. I can do all that. Apparently, Elmahrek cannot.

Few people outside of Southern California have ever heard of Adam Elmahrek before this week. He was a small-time reporter for the Orange County Register before taking up marijuana corruption stories for the Los Angeles Times in 2016. But he decided to inject himself into the story of the unspeakable atrocities being committed by Hamas terrorists in Southern Israel by throwing the B.S. flag at some of the most heinous crimes being reported.

I24 News’ Nicole Zedek reported that 40 Israeli babies had been kidnapped and beheaded by Hamas terrorists. Elmahrek refused to believe that was the case, and cited the story evolving to ‘some babies beheaded, others were burned alive’ as an excuse to not believe any of it. CNN’s Nic Robertson eventually confirmed the atrocities took place. Fox News confirmed it. CBS News confirmed it. Joe Biden confirmed it. It still wasn’t enough proof for Adam Elmahrek. Rapes? Not happening. No proof. Even after survivors at the music festival spoke to media saying that while in hiding, they witnessed these Hamas terrorists raping other concertgoers right in front of them, Elmahrek wasn’t convinced enough to condemn the atrocities.

Of course, there’s plenty of proof. Videos were taken on Israelis’ own cell phones showing the atrocities, the proudly posted online. The Israeli government released photos of recovered bodies, incredulous that they have to do so, in order to tamp down the denialism that is running rampant all over the world.

Very early Wednesday morning, this was a tweet from Adam Elmahrek:

Now more than ever, we have to strive to be cool headed and objective, and rigorous in vetting claims from all sides. People’s lives depend on it

— Adam Elmahrek (@adamelmahrek) October 11, 2023

Objectivity, you say? The same Adam Elmahrek, using his family lineage as a front to claim objectivity and credibility on the Israel/Palestinian issue, had this to say about Gaza in May of 2021.

There is so much we should require "transparency" about in covering Gaza.

Like how Israel locks 2 million people into an open-air prison. Or how most of them are refugees and native to the land, but Israel refuses to let them go home.

But let's dehumanize them instead, right? https://t.co/zX8wwOFDxS

— Adam Elmahrek (@adamelmahrek) May 18, 2021

A few weeks later, leftist journos came up with an open letter, of which he is a signatory, calling Israel an apartheid state. The letter goes so far as to say:

We are calling on journalists to tell the full, contextualized truth without fear or favor, to recognize that obfuscating Israel’s oppression of Palestinians fails this industry’s own objectivity standards.

Six months later, Elmahrek issued this tweet.

"Don’t call Israel a democracy when it rules over millions of Palestinians without granting them any rights."@theIMEU releases new guidelines for journalists covering Palestine/Israelhttps://t.co/3NjzJNuIZS

— Adam Elmahrek (@adamelmahrek) January 11, 2022

I don’t care who his mother or father is. He’s not neutral on this issue. He’s anti-Israel. His writings have shown that he is reflexively disposed to not believe anything that puts Palestinians in a bad light or shows Israelis as victims.

To be fair to Elmahrek, since last weekend, he’s been hiding behind a bedrock of journalism, which is to hold out reporting until you’ve verified the facts. I appreciate that. If Hamas had conducted one attack in Southern Israel, and there were no survivors, no eyewitnesses or cameras, and no independent verification other than one source, I’d hold out, too, until I knew a little more. This is different.

There was not just one attack. There were hundreds. Over a thousand innocents have been killed, including babies, in the most grotesque manner imaginable. Elmahrek, as of the writing of this column, still has not admitted that countless atrocities have taken place, and that Hamas is this era’s Nazis. Instead, he’s basking in self-righteousness for his stance of holding out reporting the evil that occurred because the numbers of beheaded babies in one town may not have been 40. Some were burned alive. Some were stabbed. Not all 40 were beheaded.

The fog of war, whenever chaos breaks out, dictates that early reports are wrong, and often times, wrong in spectacular fashion. but if 25 Jewish babies were beheaded instead of 40, does that mean because the initial tally was off, that means the atrocities never occurred at all? Of course, not.

Using Elmahrek logic, if a hurricane were to hit the Southeastern United States, but due to technical failure, we couldn’t accurately record the sustained wind speed of the storm at 75mph or over at the time it made landfall, that means there’s no proof that the hurricane came ashore. In a vacuum, it’s a silly argument. In reality, it’s Baghdad Bob in its level of trying to prevent the world from learning about the ancient evil that come back with a vengeance.

So why would Elmahrek still deny the holocaust that is underway this week? I’m sure he realizes that were the world to understand the ferocity of evil that Hamas represents, that would functionally end the prospects of ever having a Palestinian state. And again, if one goes back and reads his previous biases in print on the issue, he’s not objective. He’s not a fan of the state of Israel.

I’ve now seen the picture released by the Israeli government of a charred, blackened carcass that just a few days ago was an infant Israeli child. I’ll spare you the nightmare. Another picture is of what looks to be a 5-week old, wearing a sleeper and a diaper, bloodied and lifeless on its back in a crib. The evidence is all there. Anyone who denies the reality here are people so broken that there may not be any soul left in there to save.

Once the images rolled in, did Adam Elmahrek change his tone? Here’s a tweet from Thursday.

My sincerest thank you to all the journalists who have reached out to support my message of caution as unverified, sensational claims go viral and end up printed/broadcast in mainstream publications. You all give me hope for our industry.

Here's just one message I received: pic.twitter.com/idfigV7t0Q

— Adam Elmahrek (@adamelmahrek) October 12, 2023

My question to Adam would be what’s the number? How many Jewish babies need to be beheaded before it’s considered an atrocity? How many Israeli infants stabbed or shot in their cribs constitute evil? How many pregnant mothers shot in the head, bellies cut open, unborn baby spilling out on the floor with the umbilical cord still intact, stabbed, have to be documented before we can report the monstrosity? How many dead Jews are too many dead Jews? Elmahrek seems to have concluded his interest in the story as of now. He was only concerned with denying any report that sounded grisly.

I’ll leave you with two videos. The first is an Israeli mother whose son was just kidnapped by the Hamas monsters and taken back to Gaza. She knows not if he’s alive or not. She was on via video in Israel with Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC, and was dumbfounded when Mitchell played the moral equivalence game with her and asked her to comment on the atrocities being done to Gazans.





The second is an interview with a father of an 8-year old daughter named Emily who was captured at an Israeli kibbutz. He was informed that her body had been found, and he was grateful – joyous, that she had been murdered and not something worse. Because in Gaza, there are worse things that just death.





I’m sure Adam Elmahrek would deflect that away. She’s only one source. There’s not independent secondary verification that her child was kidnapped, so it probably didn’t happen. In the father’s case, he’s probably an agent of the Israeli government, so he clearly can’t be believed. Or maybe he’ll just be silent, now that we know the level of evil that transpired. And silence from the holocaust deniers speaks volumes.