From London to Washington to Madrid, last month our staff continued to expose misinformation and bias across a range of media outlets.
As distortions persisted — especially related to reporting on Gaza and antisemitic terrorism in Europe — the CAMERA team was featured across more than a dozen major English- and Spanish-language platforms, offering crucial context and pushing back against narratives shaped by propaganda rather than facts.
BBC’s Failures Over Manchester Synagogue Attack
At the start of the month, our research on the BBC’s coverage of the tragic Manchester synagogue attack drew national attention in the UK. The Daily Mail cited CAMERA in its report on the public outrage over the BBC airing a program in which an “expert” blamed Israel and the British government for the Manchester synagogue attack, just hours after the event left two Jewish men dead.
The Telegraph also covered CAMERA’s criticism of a BBC Panorama documentary that ignored evidence showing Hamas killed Gazans in aid queues.
CAMERA senior research analyst Sean Durns wrote movingly for the Washington Examiner (Oct. 2) on how the attack, and the anti-Israel libels that have contributed to this hostile climate, demonstrate a darkening future for Europe’s Jews.
Strengthening Student Leadership
CAMERA on Campus fellows Leore Tal and Lucas Sugarman appeared on KOMU NBC (Oct. 13) to discuss the ceasefire and the climate on U.S. college campuses.
On Oct. 29, the Jewish Chronicle reported on an anti-Israel mob that physically blocked students from attending an event co-hosted by CAMERA at University College London — a stark reminder of the worrying climate we continue to document and challenge on campuses in the U.S. and beyond.
Karen Bekker, Assistant Director of CAMERA’s Media Response Team, commented (Oct. 16) in a letter to the Cleveland Jewish News about its report (Sept. 24) on Oberlin College’s assurances that the administration is “helping to make sure Jewish students feel safe.” Bekker relayed the campus Chabad’s concerns that pro-Israel students at Oberlin felt “afraid to express themselves,” and noted that the college’s president, Carmen Twillie Ambar, failed to address the recent interruption of the college’s graduation ceremony with screams of, “free free Palestine!” over the commencement speaker.
Rebecca Schgallis, K-12 director at CAMERA Education, spoke to Forward following news that California’s “antisemitism prevention” bill was signed into law. She pointed to problematic teaching resources such as “Teaching While Muslim,” whose website includes a worksheet instructing students to color the Palestinian flag over the entire map of Israel.
The Al-Ahli Hospital Explosion: Two Years On
A central theme of coverage throughout October was the ongoing credibility crisis in Western reporting from the Gaza Strip. In coordinated English and Spanish analyses published in the Jewish News Syndicate and Voz US, and amplified by DNews, and Libertad Digital, CAMERA Español director Masha Gabriel documented how major Spanish and English-language outlets repeated Hamas’s fabricated narrative about the 2023 Al-Ahli Hospital explosion.
Expanding Our Global Reach
CAMERA Español director Masha Gabriel also appeared on Radio Sefarad to discuss the media’s systematic whitewashing of Hamas (Oct.22) and La Vanguardia’s publication of unverified Hamas rumors as fact (Oct. 30).
The Spanish department’s associate director Marcelo Wio’s Oct. 7 essay for The Objective discussed how “We have had two years of whitewashing anti-Semitism in the name of the ‘Palestinian cause’: a cause that its leaders define as the elimination of Israel.” He also wrote for El Debate on the “suicidal” appeasement of terrorism and antisemitism in the West.
He also wrote a compelling piece on the obedient “progressive” silence in the face of Hamas for Enfoque Judío (Oct. 22).
CAMERA senior research analyst David Litman appeared on the India-based WION News channel (Oct. 3), to discuss U.S. foreign policy shifts in light of the recent Gaza ceasefire deal.
Reflecting on Antisemitism, Past and Present
In The Algemeiner (Oct. 17), CAMERA’s Sean Durns expertly traced the ideological roots of modern antisemitism through archival examinations of the Mufti of Jerusalem’s collaboration with Nazi leadership.
“In 1946, the future son-in-law of Harry Truman, who eventually decided to recognize Israel, met with the man whose life ambition was to destroy the Jewish State,” Durns wrote. “Until recently, the resulting New York Times profile was seemingly lost to posterity.”
That same day, the Washington Examiner published Durns’s analysis of Gaza’s post-war future in “Hamas Isn’t Going Away,” examining regional stability and the Trump peace framework.
His Oct. 5 review of Memoirs of a Mossad Mastermind for the Washington Free Beacon is also a must-read. As is his Oct.9 letter to the editor, which sharply responds to the Washington Post’s Oct. 4 news article “Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds,” which ignored important findings and key context from the newspaper’s own survey.
The month concluded with Durns’s reflective essay “Cast Away with Hamas” in the Washington Examiner (Oct. 31), which explores how antisemitic ideologies adapt and persist beneath shifting political aesthetics.