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 28: Today’s news on Palestine & Israel
Current situation in Gaza; Bombing intensifies; Blackout continues; Israeli troops inside Gaza; Biden admin calls for protection of innocents (while vetoing measure that would do that); children at risk; Israeli settlers; Elon Musk assistance; Russian hostages…
Sec’y Blinken (indirectly) calls Israel’s treatment of Gazans “barbaric”
“Heat, water, electricity for children, for the elderly, for the sick – these are President Putin’s new targets. He’s hitting them hard. This brutalization of Ukraine’s people is barbaric.”
It’s not just Gaza – Israel is also killing scores in the West Bank
While Gaza has been in the spotlight for two weeks, the West Bank has also been experiencing a major spike in Israeli violence
Palestinian-American child killed in Illinois: this is what media reports left out
The killing of a Palestinian-American boy on Friday was neither a random occurrence nor a simple act of Islamophobia. It happened because many media reports misinformed Americans, and politicians, including the President, repeated Israeli spin and disinformation
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.
Gaza-Israel: Latest news and statistics (the first 25 days)
New info and stats about the ongoing situation – updated regularly – also provides background & history. (This is pinned to the top – see additional new posts below.)
Latest from Israel/Palestine: 2 killed, 9 children detained, Pope furious
Two Palestinian young men were killed, nine Palestinian children were detained; the pope is disgusted by Israelis who spit on Christians.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) again sides with human rights abusers over free speech on campus
The ADL wants to see the continuation of Israeli abuse of Palestinian human rights – and the repression of free speech on American campuses – rather than cause discomfort among Jewish students.
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.”