Karen Bekker

1 month ago | camera.org | Karen Bekker

At the end of February, CAMERA published a three-part series on Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza since October 7, 2023. One major problem that CAMERA noted at the time was the way that Rolling Stone had been covering Gaza casualties – relying on a debunked study from the Lancet that inflated the numbers. An even bigger problem was ignoring the way that the war started.

1 month ago | camera.org | Karen Bekker

This is the last of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023. You can also see Parts One and Two on our website. PART THREE: FROM BAD TO WORSE Since the start of 2025, Rolling Stone’s writing about the war in Gaza has defied probability and gotten even worse than it was in the earlier part of the war, as detailed in parts one and two of this series.

2 months ago | camera.org | Karen Bekker

PART TWO: FURTHER SANITIZING HAMAS’S ACTIONSThis is the second of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023. You can see Part One here. For a magazine that is supposed to be dedicated to music, as was discussed previously, Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza seemed … obsessive. It’s not possible to discuss every article, every distortion, every falsehood that the magazine published.

2 months ago | camera.org | Karen Bekker

PART ONE: CREATING A NARRATIVE, ABSOLVING HAMASThis is the first of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that Hamas started on October 7, 2023. In October of 2023, coverage of the barbaric October 7 attack on Israel and the Israeli response dominated headlines in the mainstream press as well as broadcast news around the world.

2 months ago | algemeiner.com | Karen Bekker

Oberlin College Course Uses Antisemitism as Sword and Shield [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] A of a course beginning this week at Oberlin College, my alma mater, reads: “Popular conceptions of the relationship between Jews and power tend either to adopt (in the case of sympathetic accounts) a view of Jews as perennial victims or (in the case of hostile/antisemitic accounts) a view of Jews as overly or preternaturally powerful. This course attempts to complicate that bipolar framework by...