Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times can’t seem to say “Palestinians protest nonviolently; Israeli soldiers kill them.” Headlines from the region consistently misrepresent the situation as two equal sides – or worse, as Palestinian aggressors inciting Israel to return fire. Words matter.
The Associated Press’s news story on the upcoming Great Return March echoes Israeli talking points…
Eleven years ago, Alison Weir published an account of the Associated Press erasing footage of an Israeli soldier intentionally shooting a Palestinian boy (originally published in CounterPunch). This was part of a pattern by the AP, as described in the article.
What is AP erasing, ignoring and leaving out these days?
A year after the bombing that killed 22 people, including 5 journalists, at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, an Israeli soldier has told Le Monde and other media how the IDF pulls out all stops to link bombing victims to Hamas
The Israeli war machine never sleeps. Neither does the Israeli propaganda machine. Here is your daily accurate and concise summary of Palestine, Israel, and Palestine-adjacent news.
Afshin Rattansi interviews journalist Ken Silva, author of “The Trump Assassination Plots: What The Investigations Missed And Why It Matters”, about how a dual Israeli-U.S. citizen and an Israeli spyware firm have influenced the investigation
Loui Ridi, from Ohio, whose home has been besieged for more than a week, demanded Israeli forces remove them from his property. But on his first day back at his home, he was told to go back inside because the area was a closed military zone.
Dan Driscoll was a close ally of Vice President JD Vance but clashed with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Vance is seen as standing on the ‘isolationist’ wing of the Republican Party and has accused Israel of “manipulating” US public opinion to keep the Iran war going. Hegseth is one of the war’s strongest defenders
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The Pentagon fired the editor-in-chief, publisher, and Middle East reporter of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. The paper had been reporting on conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed in the Gulf for months as the US-Israeli war with Iran continues