Before October 7, the mainstream media mostly ignored news from Palestine. This fact has consequences among the American public.
Benjamin Netanyahu is using Joe Biden to drag the U.S. into a larger conflict with Iran, which will ultimately cost Biden his presidency.
The New York Times focuses on pro-Israel Jewish students’ unfounded concerns over protest slogans rather than the fact Palestine solidarity organizations are being banned on campus.
The huge antiwar protest for Palestine at New York’s Grand Central Station was the kind of media event that the mainstream press should eagerly cover. They ignored it.
The mainstream U.S. media is using the word “hostages” to describe the Israelis who Hamas militants have captured and taken into Gaza. Analyzing this is a good start to understanding how the mainstream media distorts the news.
“A Day in the Life Of Abed Salama” tells the story of Israel’s occupation of Palestine through one family’s tragedy.
In the 1980s, AIPAC tried to weaken U.S. policy toward an African dictator. Is the pro-Israel warhorse deploying the same maneuver again today?
The ‘NY Times’ has long whitewashed Israel’s far-right. In a welcome surprise, the paper covers the rising segregation by sex there.
The proposed U.S.-Saudi Arabia-Israel deal will almost certainly fail. Then, the U.S. mainstream media will blame the Palestinians.