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Sean Durns

Sean Durns

Sean Durns is a senior research analyst for CAMERA, the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

The paper deserves credit for highlighting a virus that has murdered millions in living memory, but its report omits key details about the organizations and individuals that have helped spread it.
Despite expending thousands of words and dozens of glossy photographs, the newspaper can’t bring itself to tell readers the truth about why there isn’t a Palestinian state.
The press and policymakers not only reward the intransigence of Palestinian leadership; they unintentionally serve its propaganda aims. In doing so, they make peace less likely.
Columnist Ishaan Taroor seems unable to refrain from distorting history and depriving Palestinians of independent agency.
The publication’s documented tendency to ignore and omit facts when they’re deemed inconvenient to its preferred narrative is deeply concerning.
Rep. Andy Levin’s legislation doesn’t say it—and neither does the news outlet—but the only reason there has been no “two-state solution” is because of the Palestinian Arab leadership.
It’s worth asking how the Levantine state got into its current predicament.
But there is no “free press in Gaza.” The very sentence itself is absurd and contradicted by statements by former reporters themselves.
“Those who are unwilling to confront the past,” wrote the prolific historian, “will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.”
U.S. peace processors like Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky have shown that they are more motivated by moral impulses than reality and history.
This isn’t the first broadside aimed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Avi Shlaim’s recommended strategy is based on a selective reading of history. Indeed, his commentary is replete with omissions and misrepresentations.