Media complicity in genocide exposed from within
JVL Introduction
Al Jazeera has excelled itself yet again with a 30 minute film showing the extent of media complicity in Israel’s genocide.
It includes revealing interviews with journalists from CNN, the BBC and other major Western outlets, plus contributions from former senior UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, Jeremy Scahill, co-founder, Drop Site News, and reconstructive surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta.
The film serves as a companion piece to Al Jazeera’s full length documentary, Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, which has already deservedly scored more than half a million views on YouTube. See also an interview with its producer Richard Sanders by Peter Oborne, and Jonathan Cook’s condemnation of a piece in the Observer that epitomises the worst of what he calls “genocide apologism”.
NWI
This article was originally published by Al Jazeera English on Sat 5 Oct 2024. Read the original here.
Inside Western media’s reporting on Gaza
When political leaders speak of genocide, they repeat a timeworn mantra: “Never again.” Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, “again” has become reality – mass casualties broadcast almost in real time by its victims. This film is about an alternative version of that reality – the one told by major Western news organisations – and how it has provided cover for Israel’s war on Gaza.
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With all the pro-Israel biased reporting from the mainstream media, it is clear that people have made their own minds up from external sources, such that the hasbara lies no longer hold sway. Only 17% in the UK favour the Israel-biased news that they are being fed.
Starmer as PM does not even reflect the overwhelming rejection of the false narratives amongst the general population, never mind just Labour voters, who are quite clear in rejecting the genocidal lies that he promotes.
agreed. they have gone too far and exposed themselves.
Please remember how easy it is to mislead the majority of us. We’re not “subject experts” in most fields, nor do we watch out for the propaganda content that MIGHT appear in news stories.
One of my friends, for example, relies on “The Times” and the BBC for her news coverage. While horrified by the civilian suffering caused when Israel attacked a Gaza hospital, she took as fact the reporter’s parroting of IDF’s claims that Hamas fighters were inside it. Watching the same news story with her, I could tell her the IDF had made similar claims in their previous wars on Gaza – all disproved when independently investigated.
Perhaps that’s the best protection most of us have against being fed deliberate misinformation by others – the talk between friends and family that helps us question what we think and know?
They have gone too far. They really don’t know when to stop. It’s a consistent failing on their part. I’d like to hear some insights onto why. After what’s seems like an eternity of arrogant and deeply patronising psychologising of the oppressed, it’s about time the supremacists and propagandists got thrown on the couch and had their messed up brains picked apart.