During her show last week, MSNBC anchor Katie Phang discussed US President Joe Biden’s four-day trip to both Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Opening a segment that included interviews with Peter Beinart and Hagar Chemali, Phang characterized the countries as “stolid US allies in the Middle East” but then added that “both have been accused of serious human rights violations.”

She proceeded to use the deaths of journalists Jamal Khashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh to drive home her simplistic analysis that the actions of Israel and Saudi Arabia are in some way comparable.

When the facts so clearly show that the deaths of Khashoggi and Abu Akleh are not remotely alike, it is a mystery why a respected television anchor like Katie Phang would suggest they are.

NEWSRAEL: Just to clarify: Khashoggi was taken into the Saudi Arabia embassy in Turkey, murdered in cold blood, his body cut to pieces and taken out of the embassy in suitcases. Abu Akleh was killed by a yet unknown shooter while she stood between two sides shooting at each other.