Piers Morgan: Numbers Aren’t Your Strong Point—But Lies, Hamas Propaganda, and Anti-Israel Obsession Are
For Piers Morgan, “journalism” means silencing and bullying women, platforming terrorists, and forgetting Google exists.
Piers Morgan couldn’t help himself. In his latest so-called debate between comedian Dave Smith and international lawyer Natasha Hausdorff. The so-called “debate: was a staggering display of contempt for both basic debate etiquette and respect for the woman and legal expert he invited to his show. At one point, Piers even sneered that “numbers aren’t her strong point,” a cheap, sexist jab suggesting she’s somehow stupid. In reality, the one who showed no grasp of numbers, facts, logic or any journalistic integrity was him.
Piers claims that his shift away from supporting Israel wasn’t the result of being threatened, bullied, or pressured—they are also not based on facts. But the facts and numbers simply ”aren’t his strong point,” or support his narrative. That leaves one plausible conclusion: Tucker Carlson’s claim that Piers once told him he “hated Israel with every fiber of his body” is the real driving force behind his relentless demonization of Israel. It also explains why he treats every guest who is invited to his show and challenges his view with open hostility, constant interruptions, and utter contempt.
Since numbers “aren’t Piers’ thing”, I’m going to help him out: he interrupted Natasha Hausdorff 103 times. Her longest uninterrupted statement lasted 38 seconds, and she generally wasn’t allowed to string five words together before being cut off. Dave Smith spoke uninterrupted nearly every time he had the floor. Piers only interjected 3 times: the first so Piers could clarify his own viewpoint, the second was to agree with Dave, and the third was to pivot back to attacking Natasha. Dave’s longest uninterrupted monologue rolled on for over three minutes. How do you like those numbers, Piers?
Piers Morgan has relentlessly pushed the same false narrative that Israel is starving Gazans or attacking civilians on their way to get food. Let’s start with the most basic and shameless lie—a display not only of journalistic failure, but of a complete lack of integrity as a human being. Israel is not targeting civilians around food distribution points, and that’s not an opinion—it’s documented fact. Hamas itself has admitted to executing people in Gaza. There’s drone and CCTV footage as evidence, even the BBC and The Washington Post—initially eager to repeat Hamas propaganda—retracted their reporting. And yet, Piers Morgan still claims “there is no evidence” that Israel wasn’t responsible. That’s not ignorance—it’s deliberate deception.
As for “starvation,” Natasha clearly explaining that six to eight months’ worth of food had entered Gaza during the last ceasefire. He brushed it off because it doesn’t fit his story. But this is the story: Gaza has more calories per capita than Norway, far exceeding humanitarian standards, while receiving 28 times more aid than the rest of the world. But the real story, billions in cash aid—primarily UK taxpayer money—are flowing into Gaza, not to feed civilians, but to finance Hamas, a fact exposed by NGO Monitor weeks ago. Food is available, but it’s stolen and resold at absurd prices.
If Piers were a real journalist, he’d be investigating the UN’s and UK’s complicity in financing terrorism, not gaslighting and misleading his audience. As a British citizen, he should be demanding why the UK is one of the largest financiers of Hamas’s extortion economy, knowingly handing over tens of millions of pounds while worrying more about optics than funding terrorism. And since he claims the “images tell a different story,” I dare him to show us one photo of a starving Gazan—with the emaciation seen in Sudan or Ethiopia.
There’s no famine. No reported deaths from actual starvation. Gaza has functioning restaurants and bustling markets. Meanwhile, UNICEF report states that 3.2 million children under five are likely to experience acute malnutrition in 2025, with over 770,000 children expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition, the most life-threatening form. The Sudan Tribune (May 2025) reports a 1,000% increase in grave violations against children. So tell us, Piers: where’s the genocide? Where is the starvation?
To answer the question Piers Morgan so desperately—and theatrically—asks in order to revive the oldest blood libel: that “Jews like to kill children”—only now aimed at the Jew among the nations, Israel. Piers Morgan theatrically performs his "outrage" over Israel not counting the number of children it supposedly "kills," implying either a deliberate targeting or a cold disregard for their lives—yet not even his own army in any war has ever tracked civilian casualties, let alone child casualties separately, but somehow he demands of Israel what he’s never asked of any other military in any conflict, including wars his own country and brother fought.
The British military itself does not record or estimate the number of civilians it has killed or injured in its operations worldwide—a fact confirmed in a 2021 Freedom of Information response from the UK Ministry of Defence. And just to be clear—this isn’t just about past wars. To this day, the UK Ministry of Defence has no dedicated unit to investigate civilian deaths caused by British military operations. In fact, in 2024, the Royal Air Force refused to disclose how many people—civilian or otherwise—were killed in its airstrikes on Yemen, citing “national security.” But as Piers loved saying to Natasha, “bullshit.” The MoD admitted it doesn’t even have a branch tasked with assessing or investigating civilian harm.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has made some efforts to report civilian casualties, especially after the Presidential Executive Order, "United States Policy on Pre- and Post-Strike Measures to Address Civilian Casualties in U.S. Operations Involving the Use of Force", signed by President Barack Obama on July 1, 2016, revoked by Trump during his first term in 2019, and the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act requiring annual civilian casualty reports. However, these reports are widely considered incomplete and often underestimate the true scale of civilian harm caused by U.S. operations.
Has anyone heard Piers Morgan demand answers about that? Has he ever asked a single British or U.S. official why they don’t know how many civilians they’ve killed? Of course not. Because this isn’t about standards—it’s about his obsessive crusade against Israel.
Piers claims to have discussed Israel’s war with his own family members, including those who’ve served in the military—you’d think they’d be the first to tell him that even the UK doesn’t track civilian casualties, let alone children, and would lead to the obvious conclusion: why would Israel be any different? Either he hasn’t actually discussed any of this with anyone who understands warfare, or his family shares the same blinding hatred he does when it comes to Israel—conveniently ignoring the realities of their own military’s conduct in war while holding Israel to a standard no other nation on Earth is expected to meet.
In the case of Gaza, we can examine death tolls published by Hamas’s own Ministry of Health, compare them with IDF figures, and analyze the comprehensive lists of names and ages released by Hamas to get an idea. Independent data scientists, as stated by Natasha during the debate, if you can call it that, have already done the work of sorting through this information. This is how Natasha—and anyone with even a basic interest in facts—knows the ratio of civilian casualties in Gaza. It’s not rocket science. But clearly, either numbers aren’t Piers’ strong point, or Piers hatred for Israel is more important than facts.
As of two days ago, Hamas claims 54,400 total deaths in Gaza, while the IDF estimates around 30,000 were Hamas and militant fighters. That leaves roughly 24,400 civilian deaths if both figures are accepted—giving Piers Morgan the simple math he challenged Natasha on: a combatant-to-civilian ratio of about 1.2:1. That’s already unusually precise warfare, but it gets sharper. Hamas itself admits natural deaths are included in its total, and over the 20-month period, about 8,500 people died of age, illness, or accidents. Excluding those, the adjusted ratio is 1.9:1—meaning 1.9 combatants killed for every 1 civilian. For context, UN and Red Cross data say the global wartime average is 9 civilians for every 1 combatant. So what exactly is Piers screaming about? Is Piers Morgan really that bad at basic math, or is his hatred for Israel so deep it overrides any pretense of journalism or objectivity from the start?
Piers Morgan doesn’t just ask, “How many civilians have died in Gaza?”—he weaponizes the question. Time and again, he turns it into a moral bludgeon, demanding of his guests, “How many children have YOU killed?” Let’s start with the obvious: Natasha Hausdorff has killed zero children. The Israeli Ambassador to the UK has killed zero children, despite getting bullied about it 17 times on Piers’s show. They are a lawyer and a diplomat, not soldiers fighting in Gaza. So if Piers truly wants to know “how many children have died,” we’ll give him the numbers—sourced, broken down, and stripped of the emotional manipulation he relies on.
Hamas has repeatedly released fatality lists with names, ID numbers, and ages—yet from the start, around 15% have been people who’ve died in past wars or are duplicated entries. In its latest update of 50,021 deaths, analysis showed that 72% of those aged 13–55 were men, and among teens aged 13–17, 65% were male—strong evidence many were involved in combat. So when Piers Morgan demands to know “how many children have died,” the answer isn’t simple. The IDF’s estimate of 30,000 fighters killed includes teen soldiers, because telling a 16-year-old militant from a 18-year-old one in urban warfare is nearly impossible.
We can cross reference that analysis with Palestinian sources themselves, we don’t want to be blamed of ‘repeating IDF propaganda.’ According to the Shireen Observatory, 67% of reported deaths are male and 33% female, with 31% of overall fatalities under the age of 18, they stopped reporting the breakdown of ages, but earlier last year, less that 3% of the overall fatalities were infants—a ratio that strongly suggests a large portion of the casualties were male combatants, not uninvolved civilians, much less “women and children.”
And since numbers clearly aren’t Piers’ strong point, here’s the simple logic: The figures show a disproportionate number of males, most of them within fighting age—including those under 18. That’s the real story—Hamas sending children to fight. Piers won’t touch that—because it ruins his narrative.
Piers Morgan loves to dramatically ask, “What other war involves a population where half are children?”—as if Gaza were uniquely victimized in this regard. A simple Google search (or asking Alexa, if that's easier) would have shown him that many conflict zones have similarly young populations. In fact, countries like Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen all have populations where children under 18 make up 45–50% or more.
Nigeria has the youngest population in the world, with nearly 57% under the age of 18—a figure even higher than Gaza’s. Yet it also holds a tragic distinction: the deadliest place on Earth to be a Christian, with over 63,000 Christians slaughtered by jihadist groups in the last decades alone. Beheadings, mutilations, mass kidnappings of schoolchildren—some of the most horrific crimes against humanity imaginable. And how much airtime has Piers Morgan devoted to this humanitarian catastrophe and ignored genocide? Zero. Not a single segment, not a single comparison, not a hint of outrage. Because these victims don’t serve his narrative—and apparently, their lives don’t fit into his version of “journalism.” As usual, Piers skips facts in favor of drama, because real context would undermine the manufactured outrage he peddles to his audience against Israel.
Regarding the false narrative of an "illegal occupation" and the recent approval of 22 new Israeli settlements, here are the facts—facts Natasha tried to explain but was never allowed to get out amid 103 interruptions. There is no illegal occupation. This isn’t just Natasha’s opinion; it’s backed by authoritative voices like the Vice President of the International Court of Justice, Justice Sabutinde, renowned Canadian international lawyer Dr. Jacques Gauthier—who delivered a detailed lecture at the EU Parliament in 2022—and countless other respected international legal experts. Since international law is also not your strong point, here is a summary fit for a five year old.
We don’t even need to rely on interpretations; the very UN Charter contradicts this false claim. I urge Piers to learn about Article 80 of the UN Charter and the British Mandate for Palestine, which explicitly affirms the Jewish right to settle between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, regardless of the establishment of a future Palestinian state.
What Piers and much of the world are advocating for is nothing less than Hitler’s wet dream—a Judenrein (Jewish-free) land, this time, in the heart of the Jewish homeland. Shame on anyone who continues to support that agenda.
Piers Morgan “get out jail” free card is ignorance about the facts on the ground, he loves repeating the falsehood that Israel has banned international media—yet I’m not on the ground, I am not even a journalist and I’m still able to provide basic facts. Piers, Google is your friends—try using it. The truth is, Israel follows the same wartime media protocols as every modern military. No warzone offers unrestricted press access; journalists operate under controlled, coordinated entry by the military in charge, whether it’s in Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else. If Piers truly wants to report from Gaza, he can apply and follow protocol, just like any other journalist in any other war.
Piers, yes most “journalists” in Gaza are actually Hamas members or affiliates—a fact backed by undisputed evidence and even legal action. Both Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press are facing lawsuits for employing Hamas terrorists disguised as journalists, a detail conveniently ignored in Piers’s narrative about Israel silencing the press by targeting local journalists while blocking international media. Again, a simple Google search would have revealed those facts. But apparently, numbers and basic research, are as foreign to Piers as journalistic integrity itself.
Speaking of integrity—just when you thought Piers Morgan couldn’t sink any lower, he closes his show by giving airtime to a literal Hamas member. This fact was brought to his attention by journalist Eitan Fischberger, yet instead of addressing the concern or taking accountability, Piers blocked him. So much for being a “big boy.” Blocking a journalist for simply raising a red flag about your guest isn’t just cowardly—it’s a blatant admission of zero journalistic integrity. Whether this guest was a Hamas family member at best or a member himself at worst, the truth was just a Google search away, again Piers, try using Google once in a while.
Piers knowingly or negligently booked a Hamas-affiliated guest—a man tied by blood and a recognized terrorist organization. If done knowingly, that’s not just unethical—it could be providing material support to a terrorist group, a serious offense under both UK and US counterterrorism laws. Journalism has boundaries. And crossing into propaganda for a terror organization is where the line isn’t just crossed—it’s obliterated.
During his friendly chat with his new Hamas-affiliated guest, Piers Morgan confidently claimed ‘he knows history’ and that Israel was created ‘because of the Holocaust’—a statement that’s not just historically false, it’s blatant Hamas-style propaganda. As a British citizen, Piers should know better. The British Mandate for Palestine, established after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, laid the legal groundwork for a Jewish homeland long before World War II and well before the Holocaust. The same mandate also led to the creation of Jordan. To suggest otherwise is not ignorance—it’s deliberate distortion. Piers parroting this lie isn’t just lazy journalism—it’s dangerous disinformation, and he knows it.
Piers Morgan tried to pretend there’s no connection between the nonstop lies told about Israel and the global surge in violence against Jews—but reality tells a different story. Just two days after UN Relief Chief Tom Fletcher lied on BBC’s Today programme that 14,000 babies in Gaza faced imminent death, one of the biggest lies about Gaza deaths spread worldwide, reaching at least half the population of the world in the first 24 hours, two Israeli Embassy staffers were gunned down. A day after another outrageous lie of a ‘massacre’ during the aid distribution, reaching at least a quarter of the world’s population, Jews in Boulder, Colorado, were set on fire.
But none seem to be enough correlation for Piers, so here is a clear connection between the lies and the violent attacks: Scott Hayes, a strong supporter of Israel and Jews in the U.S., was violently attacked in Massachusetts by a Hamas-flag-waving, watermelon-emoji-screaming lunatic who quoted the exact same fake death toll—180,000—that many of Piers’s guests have repeated, a lie originally published by The Lancet and echoed across global media. Scott isn’t even Jewish—yet he now finds himself defending his life and his innocence in court. His only "crime" was protecting himself from someone radicalized by propaganda. If that’s not a direct connection, Piers, what is?
Debunking Piers Morgan’s lies isn’t just easy—it’s embarrassingly simple. A little research, a few public documents, and even Hamas’s own statements are enough to completely dismantle the narrative he parrots night after night. But as we’ve seen, facts and accountability hold no place in Piers Morgan’s version of journalism. His blatant disregard for truth—and his decision to invite a Hamas member on his show—marks the lowest point he’s reached so far.
He works for Qatar.
I genuinely could not understand what he was asking
“The ambassador knew how many terrorists Israel killed but not how many children”
Israel is monitoring named terrorists because it is targeting named terrorists! Of course they would have a better idea how many of their targets were eliminated
How would they know exactly how many of the alleged civilians deaths were attributable specifically to Israeli fire? How????
The IDF doesn’t even appear to have remained started (edit-stationed) in any particular part of Gaza to conduct such surveys
We are still supposed to believe 500 people were killed at the minor car park damage at Al Ahli Hospital by an Islamic Jihad rocket
How on Earth would Israel practically count civilian deaths in this mayhem?