You know Al Jazeera is reporting the truth because every side is complaining it is against them. Every Arab country - including my own, Bahrain, has thrown out Al Jazeera at one point or another, for being "anti".

For the record, for the Israeli side, I gather they actually (privately) like the station because it was the first Arab station to interview them. Whenever they report about an Israeli issue, they actually get an Israeli to talk about the Israeli point of view.

The problem is not with Al Jazeera, it is that it is the only station with global reach that actually speaks truth to power, challenging those with power on any side. They alone remember that the journalist's role is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

(The one exception is Qatar, which they never report on, but frankly nobody cares about that.)

From what I understand, this stems largely from the fact that they were the only major news organization with an embedded presence in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war (others being unable to get in after it broke out due to the lockdown.) Their ability to report the actions of the IDF and provide graphic images to back it up did far more to generate international condemnation of Israel at the time than any other voice. They played a similar role more recently with a reporter aboard the Mavi Marmara, although he was able to get far less real-time footage out.