NPR editor knocks outlet's 'troubling' avoidance of growing antisemitism following Oct. 7

Veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner called out his employer's "troubling" blackout in coverage of the growing antisemitism that took place in the U.S. and around the world following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel. 

In his bombshell piece published in The Free Press, Berliner swiped NPR's framing of the Israel-Hamas war through an "'intersectional' lens" that ultimately slanted its reporting. 

"We have approached the Israel-Hamas war and its spillover onto streets and campuses through the ‘intersectional’ lens that has jumped from the faculty lounge to newsrooms. Oppressor versus oppressed," Berliner wrote Tuesday. "That’s meant highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of October 7, overlooking how Hamas intentionally puts Palestinian civilians in peril, and giving little weight to the explosion of antisemitic hate around the world."