MSNBC’s decision to cancel Mehdi Hasan’s show has drawn backlash from Palestine advocates
CNN’s Jake Tapper failed to adhere to professional and ethical journalism standards in a story claiming to offer proof of sexual violence by Palestinian fighters on October 7.
Disrupting media corporations that act as bullhorns for our enemies is only part of the task—the challenge is engaging in journalism rooted in respect for one’s people.
Before October 7, the mainstream media mostly ignored news from Palestine. This fact has consequences among the American public.
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.
Eitay Mack’s Haaretz article “Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza” ignores the genocidal clarity of Israeli leaders and serves as a cherry-picked broadside against the fashionable bogeyman of “the global left.”
The western media argues that only Israeli victims deserve justice. Thousands of Palestinians never do.
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 New York Times says that Israel values human life, but a reexamination of Times coverage of Israel’s 2018 massacre of peaceful protesters in Gaza shows that the Times itself does not uphold such values.
The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today’s world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.