The British talk show host Piers Morgan has been an outspoken supporter of Israel and its actions, particularly in the last six weeks. While he denies being a Zionist, it is reasonable to assume that he is because he goes above and beyond to defend the vicious Israeli attacks against defenseless Palestinians besieged in the largest concentration camp in the world.
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Morgan has stated that he doesn’t play favorites, that he is “a journalist…with no personal skin in the game”, and that he has “always tried to be extremely fair-minded [on the issue]”.
He has also claimed, during multiple interviews, that he has done more to give voice to pro-Palestinian voices than any other mainstream western media figure.
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He might have indeed provided more opportunities for Palestine supporters to express their views than anyone else in mainstream western media. His shows that featured guests who were sympathetic to the Palestinians have attracted tens of millions of views on YouTube. However, Morgan has not been as impartial or fair as he suggests. He has also interviewed many more pro-Israel guests in the same period: political commentator Ben Shapiro; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; American politician Chris Christie; Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely; an Israeli family that survived Hamas’s 7 October attack; actress Joan Collins; Professor Gad Saad; journalist Jeremy Boreing; former CIA director David Petraeus; former Israeli ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev; Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari; former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett; psychologist Jordan Peterson; journalist Emily Austin; American presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy; British author Louise Mensch; the son of Iran’s former shah, Reza Pahlavi; attorney Brooke Goldstein; Israeli President Isaac Herzog; and Mosab Hassan Yousef, a former Hamas member and former Muslim.
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He has also had brief conversations with other pro-Israel guests – British columnist Esther Krakue (two appearances), British lawyer Paula Rhone-Adrien, and journalist Hilary Freeman – but only as part of panels. Morgan’s selection of guests is revealing, not only because of the disproportionate number of pro-Israel guests, but also because of the type of guests he has chosen. The programme has given a platform to Israeli politicians, while neglecting political scientists and scholars of international law, who are mostly critical of Israel. Piers Morgan Uncensored has also hosted extreme Islamophobes, including an ex-Muslim, but did not invite Israeli dissidents such as members of “Breaking the Silence”, a prominent organisation founded by former soldiers.
Morgan has mostly adopted an adversarial approach in interviewing pro-Palestine guests, posing negative and challenging questions that put them on the defensive. Morgan has begun most of these interviews by asking pro-Palestinian guests if they condemn Hamas. This is an example of what media scholars call “frame setting”, which determines the tone of news content based on the journalist’s own position.
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Morgan’s frequent question about condemning Hamas has significant implications. If guests agree with Morgan that Hamas should be condemned, a Palestinian source of evil and conflict is established from the start of the interview, and Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza is justified. If guests refuse to condemn Hamas, however, Morgan can vilify them for failing to denounce “terrorists”. Crucially, with most pro-Palestinian guests, Morgan has been largely reluctant to discuss the essential background and context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, insisting on 7 October as a kind of official starting point.
