This Oct. 12, 2026, Op-Ed by CAMERA’s Jennifer Kouzi appeared in JNS.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists invaded southern Israel, murdered approximately 1,200 people, wounded thousands more, and took 251 men, women and children hostage back into the Gaza Strip. The largest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust not only affected Israeli society dramatically, but it set off a firestorm of vitriol and violence against Jews in the Diaspora, deemed the worst wave since the conclusion of World War II.
CAMERA reviewed mainstream media coverage of the third anniversary of what some experts have said could be categorized as the attempted genocide of Jews and found that with some major outlets, very little centered on Israelis.
Wire Services
The Associated Press “commemorated” Oct. 7 by publishing “Satellite photos show how Israeli forces have erased Gaza towns,” complete with a live webcam of Gaza City. Reuters had the same idea, publishing on X a live view not of memorials or commemorations of the Oct. 7 massacre, but a “View of Gaza City on October 7 anniversary.”
‘The New York Times’
Oct. 7, 2026 felt like another typical day at The New York Times or even perhaps lighter than usual in terms of how many articles mentioned Oct. 7. Excluding one opinion piece, the paper had one article about twin brothers and former Israeli hostages Gali and Ziv Berman.
This and other articles used generic terms like “gunmen” and “militants” to describe the thousands of terrorists who invaded Israel that day and murdered, injured, raped and kidnapped. It also referred to hostages being killed in captivity as having “died.”
But at least with this article, the Times met the low bar and centered the article on the brothers’ re-acclimation to life after captivity.
So as not to focus solely on the Israeli victims, though, it placed an adjacent video report on Gaza describing life in Gaza “nearly a year after” the ceasefire. Somehow, the paper could not wait three more days to mark the actual anniversary of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
Read the rest of CAMERA’s Op-Ed in JNS.