We owe a debt of thanks to hundreds of journalists, and the media union house committees in the ABC and the Grauniad. Many of them work for mainstream news organisations including the formerly Fairfax newspapers and, of course, the ABC. Not a few work for the usual leftist suspects, including the Guardian Australia, Crikey, and the Saturday Paper.

In their open letter to their own industry circulated last Friday, these journalists demand that the Hamas terrorists should be given equal credence to the democratic state of Israel. They peddle their own hatreds, biases, and subjective ‘truths’ to assert that Israel, not Hamas, is the villain, that the Hamas terrorist atrocities of October 7 can somehow be justified or even excused, and that it’s perfectly acceptable to cover sympathetically the anti-Israel and anti-semitic protests making Jewish Australians fearful for their safety in their own communities in an Australia supposedly multicultural, pluralistic and tolerant, and broadcast the anti-semitic chants and placards hatefully directed at Jewish Australians.

These journalists think they’re doing everyone a favour by demanding their truths be our truths. But that’s the delusional thinking of self-important opinionistas who think their opinions matter simply because they’re journalists.

Yet this motley crew are doing us a favour, and for that we should thank them. They’re telling us which journalists we should never believe, never trust, never respect.

They are not reliable journalists, pursuing the truth. They are unreliable activists, blinded by their own biases and pursuing their own ideological obsessions. They’ve conveniently identified themselves, so you can avoid them. So avoid them.