Barbara Kay: To Uphold the Preferred Narrative, Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Demonize Israel

A member of the Jewish community holds a poster outside BBC Broadcasting House to demonstrate against the BBC's refusal to label Hamas as terrorists, in London, England, on Oct. 16, 2023. Carl Court/Getty Images

Commentary

The news story of the year in 2023 was indubitably Hamas’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel and its aftermath. Hamas’s monstrous achievement stunned the world. Equally stunning was what the event triggered: the explosive escape of a triumphalist Islamist genie from its loosely corked bottle. The incendiary genie continues to whip its cyclonic path across the entire West. Whether its fury will subside or escalate remains uncertain. I lean to the latter probability.