Opinion Palestinian police officers loyal to Hamas march during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, April 29, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. HonestReporting has constantly criticized the Associated Press’ habit of using language to sanitize the actions of Palestinian terrorists and rioters. A case in point was the global news agency’s use of the word “activists” in reference to arsonists in the Gaza Strip, who launched explosive balloons at Israel last year. We called out this egregious linguistic distortion in print: An activist is not a gun-toting rioter who seeks to cause bloodshed. Activists are also not those...