Gaza and Ukraine – media bias explored and exposed

JVL Introduction

Mondoweiss has provided detailed evidence of the bias in media reporting comparing that used for Ukraine with that used for Gaza, where Ukraine is the David to Russia’s Goliath and the plucky Ukrainians even encouraged to make molotov cocktails.  However, the imbalance in forces, let alone decades of occupation and siege are barely mentioned by the media in relation to the Palestine and  Israel and it is literally unimaginable that mainstream media would support resistance by Palestinians.

The focus here is on the New York Times but there are many other examples, indeed, most mainstream western media talked about people being killed by Russians in Ukraine and people dying in Gaza, with no attribution to Israel’s responsibility.  Yet references to the Hamas led attack always refer to the number killed by Hamas (even though some were killed by Israelis).  Even this past week, while the  horrendous targeted killing of a doctor, her mother and newborn twins while their father was registering their births made the mainstream press, as Owen Jones points out in this video, Israel’s actions are somehow still missing from their narrative.

As Mondoweiss states “Ukraine and Gaza are not perfect historical parallels. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine still provides a useful point of comparison to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Both have occupied the media’s attention for months on end, and both represent struggles deeply embroiled in U.S. empire. (The argument that there is a breach in parallels because Gaza “started it” on October 7 only holds up if one ignores the forced expulsion, apartheid, and occupation imposed on Palestinians by Zionists for the last century.)”

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This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Fri 16 Aug 2024. Read the original here.