Israel continues its time-honored strategy of manipulating the mainstream U.S. media — this time muddying the coverage of the assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Since 2000, 50 Palestinian journalists have been killed, and the world doesn’t know the names of any of them.
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Associated Press caught whitewashing a Palestinian toddler’s death
The Associated Press shows yet again its affinity for whitewashing Israel’s crimes: this time, downplaying the death of a toddler at the whims of Israel’s harsh permit system. AP rarely covers Palestinian deaths in detail – it’s disappointing that when they did report on one, they misrepresented the context.
WATCH: Israeli video whitewashes Israeli demolition of Palestinian home in Sheikh Jarrah
Israel’s narrative of a quiet, gentle incident in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem hides the alarming truth of destruction and dispossession of a Palestinian family.
Unwilling and Unable: Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests
In 2018-19, Israel met a Palestinian nonviolent movement with violence week after week – causing 13,000 Palestinian injuries and 234 deaths – then went through the motions of “investigating” its military’s wrongdoing. The Israeli organization B’Tselem and the Palestine Center for Human Rights combined to produce a detailed report deconstructing the Israeli investigation…
Israel makes childhood in Gaza a living hell
Childhood in the Gaza Strip is unlike anywhere else in the world. Here, thanks to Israel, a ten-year-old has already experienced the violence of three wars and has spent his entire life under brutal blockade.
The Washington Post Redacted Facts About Israel’s Destruction of COVID-19 Clinics
The Washington Post claimed, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary, that Israel had never destroyed Palestinian Covid clinics. In fact Israel is guilty of this and a multitude of other human rights abuses – as a pandemic rages, and with financial support from the US.