Batya Ungar-Sargon is the opinion editor at Newsweek, author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, and a columnist at Compact.
In a clip that went viral last week, Batya excoriates the media for repeating Hamas claims that Israel bombed a hospital, killing 500 people, calling the press corps “stenographers of terrorists.”
I spoke with her on Monday about the horrific attacks Hamas perpetrated against Israel this month, the response, what “Free Palestine” really means, why Israel has been labelled a “colonizer,” and whether there is any possibility of resolution between Palestine and Israel.
'These are not morally equivalent things' — Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Oct 7 attacks and the Israel/Palestine conflict