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“What we’re talking about is driving out the indigenous population so that settlers can take over their land.”
Corporate media can’t bring themselves to call Trump’s illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.
Of the articles surveyed on Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, 87% chose not to call it ethnic cleansing.
The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed “subject to debate.”
Over the course of Israel’s genocide, Western media have actively avoided investigating the true human costs of the war.
Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.
“They’re trying to do everything in their ability to try to legitimize these killings, and dehumanize Palestinians.”
While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.
Corporate media outlets continue to dance around the word “genocide” while the Israeli military carries out the systematic mass killing of Palestinians.
“It’s got very little to do with religion and everything to do with geopolitics and capitalism and colonialism.”
Establishment media seemed distracted by the “hypocrisy” of Nicaragua challenging a country whose “legitimacy as a democratic state is unassailable.”
By condemning both Hamas and Israel leaders for illegal acts of violence, the ICC is delegitimizing Israel, editorialists say.
The discovery of mass graves in Gaza “horrified” the UN rights chief. But it has yet to prompt so strong a reaction from US news outlets.
“The United States, through the coup d’etat, was in cahoots with elite power in Honduras that replaced a democratically elected president.”
As Israel wages an unprecedented war on Palestinian civilians, the New York Times’ newsletter blames everyone but Israel for the carnage.
“This notion that Israel is defending itself relies on the preposterous assumption that the violence began on October 7.”
How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?
“As US Jews, we know what it means when a government uses genocidal rhetoric and then attacks civilians. We know where that leads.”
“The story of the post-Roe world is a very fractured story. There’s no single story.”
Not only did the Israeli military make a weak case, some media outlets and pundits were too quick to take this presentation at face value.
