This May 10, 2026 “CAMERA Eye on the Media” Op-Ed by CAMERA UK’s Leah Benoz appeared in JNS.
A screen capture of BBC coverage of the antisemitic stabbing attack in Golders Green, London, April 29, 2026
“I think I first really thought about [antisemitism] when I was at a concert with my older sister. I went to see Sabrina Carpenter with her, and we heard Hebrew; we started joining in. Someone, one of the people we’d made friends with, asked, ‘What country are you guys from? Israel?’ An older man overheard it and started screaming, ‘You’ve committed a genocide! You’re killing babies!’ He saw me and my sister sitting there crying, and he just carried on. He didn’t care.”
Those were the words of 16-year-old Libby, a Jewish girl from London, in an interview on May 1 with the British Broadcasting Corporation. Libby spoke with presenter Anna Foster on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship politics program ”Today“ just two days after an assailant stabbed two Jewish men in the street in Golders Green, a well-known Jewish neighborhood in North London.
The BBC has dedicated a huge amount of coverage to the latest wave in a stream of antisemitic attacks in the United Kingdom. Too often, however, this coverage has focused on whether the violence and threats targeting British Jews represent simply “misplaced anger” at the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Some media personalities have even argued that British Jews should not be attacked because the victims’ stance on Israel isn’t known. The unspoken suggestion, of course, is that those who do support Israel may be “fair game.”
Read the rest of Leah Benoz’s “CAMERA Eye on the Media” Op-Ed at JNS.