Florida teen Comes to Israel - Becomes Terrorist, Now ABC News is Defending him

In what Israel calls a clear act of violent terrorism, a Palestinian American teenager arrested for pelting stones at soldiers is being whitewashed by ABC, recast not as an attacker, but as “an average 16-year-old” cruelly torn from his family.

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim, visiting from Florida, was detained in February after soldiers accused him of participating in attacks that endangered lives.

According to the IDF, stone-throwing is not harmless mischief but a deadly tactic that has claimed Israeli lives for decades. Yet ABC News framed Ibrahim as a victim of circumstance, a “normal teen” passionate about music and photography, handcuffed and blindfolded by soldiers. The network’s coverage leaned on claims of mistreatment, hunger, and squalid prison conditions while largely omitting the context of violence that led to his arrest.

Family members, speaking live on American television, denounced Israel’s military courts as illegitimate and appealed directly to US lawmakers to intervene. They described their son as blameless, even as Israel insists his arrest followed violent actions. In doing so, ABC amplified a narrative that undercuts Israel’s right to defend its troops and civilians against persistent attacks.

Now, major US outlets granting sympathetic platforms to accused Palestinian assailants and portraying them as victims while dismissing the security threats they pose, has been normalized.