Killing, starvation unabated in Gaza; ‘double standards’ in recovering bodies; West Bank destruction; Israeli female sex offenders; Gaza Tribunal; Shireen Abu Akleh; more.
Israel has a long history of violating agreements, currently, ceasefire agreements in both Syria and Lebanon, and now, in Gaza. Western mainstream media always portrays Israel as an eternal victim.
As the world focuses on the bodies of Israeli captives, thousands of Palestinians are missing and buried under the rubble.
No food; no interest in Palestinian lives from JD Vance; UXOs; Israel shuts down orphan care charity; viral settler attack; Ben Gvir; Northwestern University
Mainstream coverage of the Israel-Hamas captives exchange exposes Western media’s enduring pro-Israel bias, as Israelis are humanized while Palestinians are erased from view
More than 100 organizations advocate for the freedom of a 16-year-old dual Palestinian-American citizen detained by Israel for more than six months.
Although Edan Alexander was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described him as a prisoner of war.
The Western media’s double standards when it comes to Israel and Palestine are hardly new. The discourse around “human shields” — or the failure to use the term — is an example of hypocrisy pushed to the extreme, by letting Israel deflect the blame for mass civilian deaths.
“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.”
Gideon Levy calls out US media’s cowardice. He highlights the double standard in which Palestinians can only be villainized, but Israel can only be defended, and the misuse of the term “anti-Semitism.” How is it that an Israeli newspaper can publish this, but in the US, CNN is required to fire Marc Lamont Hill?