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Palestinian Journalists Are Exposing How “Objectivity” Is Used to Silence Them

“Neutrality as a sacred rule of journalism has repeatedly been  contested in  the U.S., particularly during the rise of social movements like  Me Too  and  Black Lives Matter .  These discussions have returned to the forefront with the reporting on the  U.S.-funded  massacre in Gaza. Not only did mainstream media outlets sideline pro-Palestinian media workers under the guise of objectivity, but they also violated that very principle through consistent complicity in  manufacturing  consent for the unfolding genocide of Palestinians.” Arab journalists are viewed as unreliable storytellers Palestinian filmmaker Bisan Owda – 2023

Stop Arming Our Massacre

“ In the midst of all this politicking, thousands of civilians have lost their lives as the West refuses to address the root cause of this decades-long conflict: the continued oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian people.” Oppression and dispossessions are the key aspects. It is not a ‘conflict’ though. “It is difficult for Western audiences to understand the terror and oppression to which ordinary Palestinians are subjected on a daily basis, because it is simply not reported throughout much of the media.”  As for solidarity and what can be done, I do think that the solution lays in the region, not outside it. Another revolutionary, but radical, upheaval that topples the rotten, complicit regimes in the region could bring justice to the Palestinians by changing the balance of forces. There is no solution that will come from ‘the West’. Palestinian trade unions

Protests in Iran

"A key aspect of the current crisis—one which is regularly understated, if not  effaced  entirely—is the complicity of those of us residing in the global North in the collective punishment of over 81 million Iranians through and by means of one of the most comprehensive and unrelenting sanctions regimes in modern history." An interjection on the Western left's response to the recent protests in Iran
Sometimes some people somewhere do care Italians unions refuse to load Saudi ship carrying weapons to Yemen
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” George Orwell
" Deleuze observes that the Control societies delineated by Kafka himself, but also by Foucault and Burroughs, operate using indefinite postponement: Education as a lifelong process... Training that persists for as long as your working life continues... Work you take home with you... Working from home, homing from work. A consequence of this ‘indefinite’ mode of power is that external surveillance is succeeded by internal policing. Control only works if you are complicit with it."  Mark Fisher, Capitalist Reaslism