Even those familiar with the biased U.S. mainstream coverage of the Middle East are shocked at how bad the reporting on the U.S.-Israel war on Iran has been.
The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg recasts Benjamin Netanyahu as a tragic figure forced to take radical action after October 7, ignoring his long history of fomenting war and exploiting Jewish trauma to further himself and his Zionist ideology.
The U.S. media is predictably spreading government propaganda and ignoring Israel’s role as it cheers on the war against Iran and pushes for regime change.
As Donald Trump assembles a massive U.S. military force ready to strike Iran, the American media keeps ignoring essential context: Israel has been trying to provoke a U.S. war on Iran for decades.
One year ago, an iconic photo from Gaza went viral of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya walking through rubble in Gaza to be detained by Israeli forces. Today, Safiya is still being held without charges, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the New York Times.
The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.
The media coverage of the Snow White remake starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler showed how Hollywood and the corporate media serve as extensions of wider political and ideological conflicts—including efforts to silence support for Palestine.
The New York Times is the paper of record and has played a key role in enabling the Gaza genocide. To hold the newspaper accountable, we must sever our ties —not only as subscribers or advertisers, but also as writers who lend the paper legitimacy.
Support for Israel is plummeting among the U.S. public, but Zionism dominates mainstream media more than ever. Several recent high-profile examples show the staggering disconnect between the media establishment and its viewers.
Jake Tapper and other mainstream U.S. media figures will wax poetic about free speech, but they ignore when advocates for Palestine are targeted, or even jailed, for speaking out.