The Dark Equation
- Julio Levit Koldorf
- Jun 15
- 1 min read
— Times of Israel
Dr. Julio Levit Koldorf argues that major Western media corporations, exemplified by recent antisemitism controversies at the BBC, are deliberately propagating anti-Israel narratives and falsehoods for financial gain.
The author cites the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which ranked the BBC as the third-worst global propagator of antisemitism, just after the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hamas.
Koldorf's central thesis is the "dark equation": media outlets treat controversial content as a commodity. They have discovered that antisemitism is profitable because it generates "polemic and controversy," which in turn drives clicks, viral content, and revenue, automating the "communication commodity."
He claims this strategy, which sacrifices ethical and factual integrity, spreads and normalizes anti-Zionism, which he describes as a "socially acceptable vehicle for anti-Jewish prejudice."
The consequence of this profit-driven model, according to the author, is a "global amnesia" about the history of Arab-Israeli wars. It successfully establishes a "distorted historical inversion" in the public psyche: that Jews are "invaders" or "colonialists" and that Zionism (Jewish self-determination) is a "neo-Hitlerian genocidal force." This media-driven hyper-simplification, Koldorf concludes, "authorizes hatred" and fuels an "appetite for destruction."