Israel’s assault on Gaza has been the first genocide live-streamed for the world to see. What more pressing task could journalists have than to accurately report on a genocide? Yet Western media often unnecessarily cast doubt on Gaza’s death toll.
With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of ‘incitement,’ Israeli police raided East Jerusalem’s world-famous Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.
Israel and pro-Israel advocacy groups have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on social media messaging to build “Brand Israel” and sway U.S. public opinion.
Two independent journalists, Sam Husseini & Max Blumenthal, confront Blinken on the US-Israeli genocide. Husseini is literally carried out, manhandled, and handcuffed after Blinken talks about the importance of a free press.
“The refusal of the New York Times to run paid ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth” – AFSC
Social media censorship leads to genocide. That’s as seemingly hyperbolic a statement as it gets and yet it’s more or less true…
Israeli schoolbooks (and by extension, Israeli schools) powerfully frame anti-Palestinian discourse and inculcate Israeli children with suspicion, fear and hatred of Palestinians – says the Israeli professor of language and education who literally wrote the book on it.
Starvation, suffering, bombing, mass displacement, humanitarian vehicles under fire in Gaza; Palestinian prisoner death in West Bank; calls for medical evacuation from Rafah; JNF loses tax exempt status in Canada; Francesca Albanese under attack for “antisemitic” comment; Germany threatens Palestine activist for Zoom presentation; more.
State Department officials say the administration is not telling the truth about Israel’s obstruction of aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed