Sean Durns

Washington, D.C.

Senior Research Analyst at CAMERA

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Articles

CAMERA Op-Ed: Terrorists Aren’t Journalists

1 week ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

Terrorists are not journalists. But some in the media would have you think otherwise. In the Israel-Islamist conflict, there is a longstanding trend of news outlets portraying terror operatives as reporters. In doing so, they diminish the work of, and endanger, real journalists who are often doing dangerous work. An April 1, 2025 article in Foreign Policy magazine embodies the problem.
Who built Gaza’s metro? Foreign aid made tunnel network possible

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Sean Durns

“War,” the U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman famously remarked, “is all hell.” And in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and other Iranian proxies has stretched on for more than 18 months. A key reason behind the conflict’s duration is the so-called Gaza metro. The tunnel network built by the U.S.-designated terrorist organization is vast and sprawling and has hindered Israel’s war effort. And both foreign aid and a complicit press helped make it all possible. On Oct.
A Lesson for the Media: Terrorists Are Not Journalists

2 weeks ago | algemeiner.com | Sean Durns

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CAMERA Op-Ed: Why Intellectuals Fete Hamas

2 weeks ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

“’Nothing appeals to intellectuals so much as the idea that they represent the people,’ British historian Paul Johnson observed, but he added, ‘Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.’ Indeed, while many American citizens are struggling to make ends meet, some U.S. elites are advocating for those who would murder and kidnap them. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and other Iranian proxies invaded Israel, perpetrating the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust.
Hands across America for Hamas

3 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Sean Durns

OPINION: “Nothing appeals to intellectuals so much as the idea that they represent the people,” British historian Paul Johnson observed, but he added, “Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.” Indeed, while many American citizens are struggling to make ends meet, some U.S. elites are advocating for those who would murder and kidnap them. On Oct.
CAMERA Letter in the Washington Times: Let Israel Destroy Its Enemies

3 weeks ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

(Note: A version of the below appeared as a letter to the editor in the Washington Times on April 16 2025)“Clifford May observes that Israel is now fighting its ‘second war of independence.’ (April 9) It’s worth unpacking what this will mean for both the Jewish state, as well as the U.S.Israeli officials told Mr. May that the recent war has taught them that they will ‘never again’ allow Iranian proxies to surround their country, creating a multi-front war.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Why Hamas Targets Families

1 month ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display. Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that rules Gaza, perpetrated the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, 2023. But Hamas has done something more.
The Washington Post Goes for Broke

1 month ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

The Washington Post is flailing. The once venerated newspaper is contending with plummeting readership and significant profit losses. A look at the Post’s coverage of the Israel-Islamist conflict offers a clue as to why. As CAMERA has noted, the past few years have found the Washington Post being the center of the story. And it’s often for all of the wrong reasons.
The dangerous world of the Wagner Group

2 months ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Sean Durns

In his famed 16th-century tract The Prince, the Florentine diplomat and author Niccolò Machiavelli warned that mercenaries are “dangerous,” for they are “disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful and valiant before friends” while being “cowardly before enemies.” Soldiers of fortune, Machiavelli claimed, “have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men.” Such men fill the pages of the journalist John Lechner’s new book, Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era...
How Hamas invented a new war crime

2 months ago | denvergazette.com | Sean Durns

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display. Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that rules Gaza, perpetrated the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, 2023. But Hamas has done something more.