We won’t have truthful discussions about Zionism in this country until people are honest about the fact that anti-Palestinian racism permeates our political culture.
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.
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 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.
The proposed U.S.-Saudi Arabia-Israel deal will almost certainly fail. Then, the U.S. mainstream media will blame the Palestinians.
The New York Times is uncritically promoting the Biden administration’s ill-fated efforts to promote Saudi-Israeli normalization while the rest of the U.S. media rightly ignore it.
Tom Friedman’s erasure of Palestinians is a disturbing and damaging trend in his work. His dehumanization of me and my fellow Palestinians is not acceptable.
Some longtime establishment voices have begun calling to end U.S. military aid to Israel, but they are not necessarily standing in solidarity with Palestinians.