This second serving of Bartov in the New York Times was likely meant to promote his extreme anti-Israel narratives. And with its platform, the paper may have succeeded. But it came with a hidden cost.
BBC reporting since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025 has focused primarily on Israeli responses but has failed to adequately inform on the topic of the terrorist targets of such strikes. Near-daily ceasefire violations by terrorist organizations have for the most part been ignored. Unconfirmed claims sourced from Hamas-run agencies have been uncritically amplified, along with the “both sides” narrative concerning ceasefire violations.
CAMERA Español's critical review of El País coverage since Oct. 7 reveals that the problem with the paper runs far deeper than what was corrected under pressure.
The idea that Jews are collectively responsible for the actions of Israel, or that Jews are ultimately responsible for bigotry that they experience, is not a position the BBC should be lending its considerable credibility to, on any day, let alone on Holocaust Memorial Day.
NYT Magazine subtly presented the genocide libel to its readers through a series of omissions, including the failure to divulge to readers that its "genocide expert" was an antizionist professor who justified the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023.
NPR's "State of the World" podcast conducted exactly one interview of a leader in 2024 and one in 2025 - both were softball interviews of Bassem Naim, a U.S.-sanctioned Hamas terrorist.
While Amnesty International has explicitly labeled Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide,” the organization’s recently published report on Oct. 7 omitted years of statements by Hamas leaders and language from its charter demonstrating genocidal intent against Jews.
Six years after The Times’ notorious publication of a vile antisemitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Jewish star collar leading a blind, kippah-clad President Trump, antisemitic tropes take firm root in countless media outlets globally.
The BBC failed in its duty to provide fair and neutral coverage of the atrocities in Bondi and subtly reinforced an unfair and dangerous trope of collective responsibility.
It’s helpful to think of anti-Zionists as akin to addicts, in that, over time, they can’t get sufficiently high off the old anti-Israel canards anymore, and thus continue needing to impute greater degrees of malevolence to the Jewish state in order to maintain the visceral thrill of their belief that they’re fighting pure evil.
The Telegraph recently reported on a CAMERA study of headlines to reports published on the BBC News website’s dedicated “Israel-Gaza war” page in the two years following the outbreak of the war between Hamas and Israel.
