The Guardian knows better, but like so many other media organizations, it has quietly given Israel a pass – on a war crime.
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60 Minutes program on Lebanon pager attack was Israeli propaganda
60 Minutes’ story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective.
Spotify: Wrapped, Robbed, and Censored
David Rovics recounts being censored on the world’s largest music streaming service… “My most popular new album, the one that sought to document the first three months of Israel’s ongoing Palestinian holocaust, is gone – erased, disappeared, unmentioned in end-of-the-year statistical wrap-ups as if it never existed.”
How Sunday Morning News Shows Promote an Anti-Palestinian Agenda
Those turning to the Sunday news shows to understand events or shape political priorities for the coming week were fed a consistent diet of superficial moralizing, softball interviews with US and Israeli officials, and entirely one-sided empathy and humanization since October 2023.
Five Days on a Media Junket in Israel: Lies, Half-Truths, and Conspiracy Nonsense
Israel’s supporters are determined to warp the truth of the ongoing genocide in Gaza – and enlist Western journalists to help them.
NY Times killed investigation of Israeli hooligans in Amsterdam, internal email revealed
The New York Times killed an investigation by one of its own reporters into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam in November. The Times claimed footage shot by a Dutch photojournalist showed “anti-Semitic attacks” on Israelis – even though it actually showed Israeli mob violence against a Dutch citizen.
A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term ‘genocide’
The Guardian – like most of Western mainstream media – has had an effective ban on the use of the term genocide for what’s happening in Gaza, but at the moment when the genocide has reached its”final stage,” The Guardian is belatedly allowing its use.
More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage
A letter signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, criticized the BBC for failing its own editorial standards by lacking “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza”
US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action
The Biden administration is ignoring evidence of Israel’s widespread civilian harm and atrocities using US-made weapons in order to maintain a policy of virtually unconditional weapons transfers to the Netanyahu government.
Israel wipes out healthcare in northern Gaza; what’s true and false about Israel’s attack on Iran – Day 385
Northern Gaza’s sick and injured have no options; don’t believe everything you read about Israel’s attack on Iran; Lebanon endures more horrors from Israel’s military; more West Bank deaths.