Insidious British media narrative on Palestine explained
JVL Introduction
This article in Spotlight looks at how UK mainstream media’s often subtle narrative on Palestine supports an extremely pro-Israeli perspective.
It does so by taking a Sky News story and exposing the narrative that underpins it.
It’s partly the choice of words used, partly the implication that Palestinians (even children) are equally matched with heavily armed and trained Israelis, partly the total absence of context.
In this case there is plenty of documented evidence and a video record of Israeli police brutalising Palestinian worshipers outside Al-Aqsa Mosque throughout the month of Ramadan.
But for the ‘journalist’ involved here, it is “unclear” who started the violence. We simply get a repeat of the Israeli evidence-free narrative that Palestinian “extremists” had been plotting “well in advance” to “riot”.
This article was originally published by Spotlight on Wed 12 May 2021. Read the original here.
Insidious British media narrative on Palestine explained
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Good stuff JVL. The pro Israeli narrative being fed to the public by the MSM is shocking!
This should be sent to the Sky news Editor. The journalists lack of knowledge about anything let alone Israel/Palestine is depressing.
Additionally – I watched Sky this a.m. late morning on 14th May – a female journalist may not have been as well informed as she might but she sure gave the hideous israeli Ambassador to Britain a grilling today. He did not come off well. He was trying to liken attacks on israel to The Blitz with Palesgtine as the ‘aggressor’ – and tried to talk over the journo. She held her ground and was firm and fierce.
“The state of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth,not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.” David Ben-Gurion
The mantra pushed by Netyanyahu and Biden that Israel has a right to defend itself has no basis in international law. In fact the opposite is true, they have an obligation as the occupier to treat those whom they occupy, humanely. It is the Palestinians who have the right to resist occupation using force if necessary.
By calling it a ‘war’ between Jews and Palestinians Netanyahu and others are being antiSemitic. It is a war between ZIONISTS and Palestinians. As we know, many Jews totally condemn the brutal actions of Israel against the Palestinians.
Deep hypocrisy within the establishment media, inclusive of the blessed BBC, is infinite and never ending and it manifests itself in its deliberate misleading.
Black propaganda turns everything on its head! As Malcolm X said:
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
https://effectivequote.com/malcolm-x-quotes-media/
Wouldn’t it be worth pointing out that the prospect of the Yom HaYerusalayim annual pogrom march against Palestinian residents, especially of East Jerusalem, increased the fear experienced by those residents, and increased the savage and triumphalist glee of the Zionist marchers (that’s the apparently even-sided ‘tension’ referred to by most of the ‘journalists’ whose reports I have seen.
Of course, I would deprecate those who claim that the IDF and Border Force have no more ‘absolute right to defend themselves ‘ (James Cleverly MP) as the Kaminsky Brigade and the Dirlewanger Battalion did.
But it is worth noting that the Chief Rabbi here not only praised but actually participated in such a march, attempting to implicate all British Jews in this serial and racist provocation.
The establishment and MSM commentators understand what ethnic cleansing is all about. They just can’t admit that it is integral to the Israeli settler colonial project. To do so would undermine the racist endeavour they support. This is why land and property theft is described as “real estate disputes” It’s also why terms like”evacuation”and “eviction”are being selected to describe the expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinians. There is nothing” complicated” about all of this. They just want us to find it too complex to take a stand on this clear injustice.
Talking about disinformation – in THIS case to falsely discredit left-wing MPs – please check out the following ‘comment’ on skwawkbox in respect of an article skwawkbox posted (yesterday) about the big demo(s) yesterday in support of the Palestinians, AND my replies (in the early hours of this morning) AND the poster’s response to my replies (earlier this afternoon):
https://skwawkbox.org/2021/05/15/100000-in-london-and-huge-crowd-in-liverpool-protest-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/#comment-185361
Practically EVERY time – except when ‘they’ just ignore it and pretend they haven’t seen it – I call out people posting falsehoods on skwawkbox – the VAST majority of which are concocted and designed to discredit socialist MPs or the left in general – they respond with personal abuse, in the SAME vein as THIS particular poster. Yes, it’s amazing how many people who regularly post on skwawkbox and claim to be left-wingers AND supporters of Jeremy Corbyn so often post comments denigrating and discrediting Jeremy or other left-wing MPs or the SCG as a whole or left-wing members. And I’m talking about literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of posts during the course of the past couple of years or so.
[JVL web: We have approved this post so that the point can be made here – once. But the argument is to be had on Skwawkbox not JVL and we do not see our role as hosting this discussion in general.
For the record, you will find a powerful Socialist Campaign Group of MPs’ statement on the general situation, dating from last year, here.]
Apologies…… and I should ALSO add that they – the shills – ALSO give themselves Likes shortly after posting their abusive comment(s) so as to have readers of skwawkbox believe there are ALSO readers of the blog who agree with them regarding my mental state. The thread in question is from early yesterday evening, and skwakbox has posted two more articles since then – one late last night and one earlier today – but in the space of about thirty minutes after I posted my response to lundiel’s response, both HE and the other abusive poster have supposedly received Likes! Who, but shills, would give Likes to abusive comments directed at someone who exposed a falsehood that someone posted!
I agree that much of the British press/media is biased and right wing. However, I think the Guardian, Independant and FT give fairly good and unbiased coverage of news events. The Israeli/Palestine conflict is complex and until ALL parties are participants involved in this conflict resolution, the challenges will keep returning.