Media misrepresentations of the war on Gaza
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by
Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
The representation of the war on Gaza in the Western media is routinely biased in a variety of ways.
These biases are so ingrained that the media generally have no awareness of what they are doing
Art Neslen unpacks seven types of common misrepresentation in his opinion piece below.
RK
This article was originally published by EU Observer on Fri 19 Jan 2024. Read the original here.
Seven ways Gaza conflict gets misreported in Europe
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What could change Western media’s misrepresentations is the tsunami of legal cases and political fallout likely to follow a ruling by the ICJ that the case against Israel for genocide is plausible. The media attitude change would be created, I think, by the drip-drip effects of such cases and of international reporting on them.
We already know cases are ready to go against Biden, Sunak and others for allowing the sales of arms likely to be used in a genocidal conflict. Israeli President Herzog has had criminal complaints (for what?) laid against him in Switzerland. Several states now plan to take Israel to the ICC for different war crimes. Western media might not report a couple of such cases – but could they ignore umpteen of them? And ignore cases that change national policies and put ministers in the dock?
Some of the more shocking reports from non-Western media are likely to trickle through as time goes by, I feel. For example, I didn’t believe what I read (in the Middle East Monitor?) about the IDF bull-dozing cemeteries and digging up dead Palestinians from their graves. Now respected Israeli media report the same events (together with the IDF’s bizarre explanations for them).
Is any BBC or MSM ‘journalist’ ever going to explain that the root cause of the violence in Palestine is the occupation of Palestine by Zionist terrorists which has been continuing for more that seventy five years?
It isn’t a “war”. It’s ethnic cleansing verging on genocide and legitimate resistance to it!
Zionist Israel’s financial supporters & suppliers or the weapons of mass destruction are as guilty as the military psychopaths who have enjoyed with relish their jobs of intimidation, & dehumanising children & adult Palestinians!
The scenes are beyond belief the bodies lying in their thousands are horrendous even the soldiers now are using bulldozers to dig up those dead people is yet another dehumanising behaviour!
Yet David Cameron has signed for more weapons to be sent to those soldiers so they can continue that Genocide & annihilate every single Palestinian to help Zionists fulfill their 1947 PLAN DALET!!!!
This Netanyahu madness has caused an increase in antisemitism because he has conflated Zionism with Judaism & it is NOT JUDAISM, he alone through his greed, corruption & criminal acts wants to remain Israel’s leader, sadly Israel will be remembered as an GENOCIDAL country on par with the horrendous holocaust in Europe!