This Nov. 8, 2026, Op-Ed by CAMERA’s Adam Levick was published by Jerusalem News Syndicate.
The Western media’s failure to assign agency to Palestinians—to the point of effectively erasing Hamas and the impact of their decision to launch the Oct. 7 massacre—is so widespread that even thoughtful commentators on the conflict inevitably succumb to this illiberal framework.
A recent example of such myopia can be found in an Oct. 25 piece written by Tim Stanley, a columnist and podcast co-host at The Telegraph, titled “Benjamin Netanyahu is destroying the case for a Jewish homeland,” written two days before Israel’s elections.
Though Stanley didn’t write the headline, surreally suggesting that we’re in a pre-1948 world where the Jewish state’s right to exist is a matter of debate, it is, however, largely consistent with the general tone of the piece.
Read the rest of CAMERA’s Op-Ed at JNS.