I wish leftists, and a few revolutionary leftists, covered, analysed, and spilled as much ink on the oppression of Palestinians as on the slaughter of Syrians by the Assad regime.
Debunking myths and ‘the Western’ media and politicians’s complicity in crime.
“Hamas’s attack in southern Israel, however grimly, predictably brutal, was not an ‘invasion’ as it has widely been reported.
During the Great March of Return – 2018-2019 – both “the BBC and Westminster politicians referred to this as ‘border violence’. So did the international press from the New York Times to the Globe and Mail.”
The purpose of asserting that there is a border between Israel and Gaza is to euphemise [sic] Israeli violence, and to represent the aggressor as engaging in self-defence.
Gaza is not a nation-state. It is not even an ‘open-air prison’ as is often said. It is a fortified ghetto controlled by the state of Israel…
The occupying power, the aggressor, the purveyor of racist apartheid – is not merely to abuse Holocaust memory but to invert the real relations of power.
The Israeli historian of the Holocaust, Raz Segal, describes Israel’s indiscriminate war on Gazan civilians and its assault on the conditions for life for the whole community, as ‘a textbook case of genocide’ unfolding in front of us. For the press and the majority of pundits, the problem cannot be named.
The international media [?] has systematically downplayed the severity of the events and aided in Israeli obfuscation and falsehoods
[the sources cited in article are mostly British, American and Israeli ones, not ‘international media’]
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The UK media do the ‘what’ much than the ‘why’
with few exceptions:
What we couldn’t imagine, but always knew: that if you keep 2 million people in the largest concentration camp on Earth and bomb to death thousands of them on occasion, you create a volcano that is bound to erupt in your face one day, causing horrific atrocities in its wake.
—the Israeli-British writer and comedian Daphna Baram
Media enable ignorance in the service of ‘genocide’
A history of 75 years of occupation, of brutalization and murder, is buried under the hellscape of thousands of tonnes of rubble and the crushed bones of the occupied, while the West clamors for more.
—Roddy Keenan
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