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.”
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.
Israel’s supporters are determined to warp the truth of the ongoing genocide in Gaza – and enlist Western journalists to help them.
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn’t about terrorism – except the UK government’s. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Israel’s genocide.
The West’s collusion with Israel creates constant discrepancies between press freedom and censorship.
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.