CAMERA OP-ED: Newsrooms are not courtrooms: New Yorkers must reject media presumption of Israel’s guilt

This June 23, 2026, Op-Ed by CAMERA’s Darcie Grunblatt appeared in The Jerusalem Post. 

Screenshot of MS NOW’s “The Weekend: Primetime” panelist Ayman Mohyeldin (left) interviewing Jack Schlossberg (right).

Like most born and raised New Yorkers, I believed my home was the center of the universe. Since I’ve moved to Israel, I’ve watched how New York congressional candidates have made my new home their epicenter rather than their future districts.

Between June 20 and June 21, 2026, MS NOW aired no fewer than four interviews with New York congressional candidates and a campaign strategist on its panel show “The Weekend: Primetime”. In every interview, either the guests themselves or panelist Ayman Mohyeldin raised the subject of the “genocide” in Gaza.

In doing so, the network’s panelists demonstrated a dangerous trend in modern journalism: media personalities acting as judge and jury, flattening strict international law into a political talking point.

Read the rest of CAMERA’s Op-Ed in The Jerusalem Post

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