Sometimes, all it takes is a catchy phrase to perfectly capture the moral absurdity or obscenity of a moment — and help people understand the danger.

The titles of two recent books — “People Love Dead Jews” by Dara Horn and “Jews Don’t Count” by David Baddiel — seem to fit the bill.

I propose a slight revision of these two sayings. I make this proposal after analyzing a six-part CNN series purportedly covering the history of Jerusalem, entitled “Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury.”

My new phrase: “CNN loves when dead Jews don’t count.”

The recurring theme of the series broadcast over the summer is that much of Jewish history is simply unimportant and uninteresting, and certainly secondary to that of the Arab population.

Entire swathes of the Jewish population of Jerusalem don’t even exist in CNN’s narrative. Even where the significance and relevance of Jews is undeniable, CNN finds a way to make it about anyone but the Jews. There are dozens of examples, many of which have already been critiqued by CAMERA.

The CNN episode on the era of King Herod spends approximately 15 minutes on Cleopatra and Mark Antony, but only 2 minutes on the Jewish rebellions. These rebellions saw the Second Temple and the city of Jerusalem destroyed, and the face of the Land of Israel changed forever.

In a series on Jerusalem, CNN felt the massacring, banishing, and scattering of the Jews from the city in a cataclysmic ending to their sovereignty in antiquity was more of a minor footnote to a foreign queen, whose relevance to Jerusalem amounts to an unsuccessful plot of little actual significance. Apparently the actual people living in Jerusalem – Jews – just weren’t interesting enough to CNN.

It doesn’t stop there.

In the episode covering the Crusader era, the series falsely evicts the Jews from their holy city, stating: “The Jewish people have been driven from Jerusalem, and now live in exile across Europe and Africa.”

Wrong. Not only were Jews present across the Middle East (in Asia), but they were present in the Land of Israel itself.

Jews famously aided the Muslim armies in capturing Hebron and Caesarea in the 7th century, and were massacred alongside the Muslim residents when Christian armies retook Jerusalem in 1099. How did CNN get this wrong?

Jews are again erased from the Middle East when CNN gets to the Israeli War of Independence and the Six-Day War.

While CNN manages to label even Israeli Arabs — who were never displaced — as “refugees,” not once are the 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries mentioned.