Media experts say some news agencies are ‘legitimizing Israeli war crimes’ in Gaza – through biased coverage, spreading rumors, and failure to contextualize truthfully.
Media bias in Western coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza
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October 29: Today’s news on Palestine & Israel
Bombing intensifies; hospital crisis; hostage update; 3 killed in West Bank; Israel vs Elon Musk; UN Sec’y-General statement; and more.
Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Read critical background left out of breaking news alerts…
Why you’re not seeing Palestinian suffering
The media generally has a strong pro-Israel bias, and rarely talks to or about Palestinians. Consumers of content need to be vigilant: notice what is said and what isn’t said.
In Gaza, she now inhabits a solitary space between life and death
When bombs are dropping all around you, do you embrace your wretched life, or pray for death? From Gaza, Horea shared her heart.
No more “shrinking map of Palestine” – it’s gone
As Israel enjoys impunity on every front for every action, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped into a whole new realm of chutzpah – and the world didn’t bat an eye when he signaled that Palestine has vanished, or at best is irrelevant.
Matt Taibbi Flashback (9/11): CNN Sentences Palestine To Death
Media showed the same 30-second clip over and over… The obvious agenda was to rally viewers around the very crudest response to the news: violence needed to be met with more violence & a political clampdown… Probably no single film clip in recent history had as much of an impact as the Palestine clip. Summing it up was an Israeli expert on terrorism quoted in Reuters: “It is the most important public relations act ever committed in our favor.”
Congress gives 29 bipartisan standing ovations for Israeli president
At a special joint session, both Democrats & Republicans bobbed up & down to applaud the Israeli president even though Israel spies on the US, steals our technology, tried to sink a Navy ship & has a long record of violent human rights abuses
In recordbreaking heat, Israel intentionally impedes Palestinian families’ access to water
Is this water apartheid? Recent viral videos show Israeli Civil Administration overseeing as Israeli soldiers and workers fill Palestinian water wells with cement – in the middle of a sweltering summer. Was this a fluke, or part of a massive, discriminative strategy on Israel’s part? The answer will become clear as we sift through the evidence.
Big truths that RFK Jr ignores in his eagerness to support Israel
Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” (part 3)