They All Scream Over Ben & Jerry’s Not Selling Ice Cream on the West Bank
What’s striking about the editorial reaction to the Ben & Jerry’s news is it insinuates that boycotting Israel is extreme and illegitimate.
Extra! Soundbites July 2021
Assaults on Choice Aren’t News (Here) Republican state lawmakers introduced more than 500 bills that would restrict abortion rights by mid-May—including some that would charge women who terminated their pregnancies with murder. But from the beginning of the year until May 16, NBC News didn’t once mention these attempts to roll back reproductive freedom. (They […]
Stability: Media Codeword for ‘Under US Control’
Once we realize what “stability” and “destabilizing” mean, news from corporate outlets makes much more sense.
AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of ‘Objectivity’
Wilder told FAIR that the vagueness of when such standards of objectivity apply meant these standards could be “asymmetrically imposed on certain journalists in a way that has censored and policed journalists before me.”
Conservative Jewish Journalists Use False Claims of Censorship to Try to Silence Critics
The signers hold up robust Jewish debate as their guiding tradition, when what they really want is for their ideas to go unchallenged in the marketplace of ideas.
Israel’s War Against Press Turns More Literal
Israel’s attack on two prominent news agencies is a sign that it seeks to stifle information coming out of Gaza, but also, as its political center of gravity moves sharply to the right, a sign that the nation is at war not just with its occupied population, but with the notion of a free society itself.
Israel/Palestine Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier
Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
‘What We’ve Seen in Sheikh Jarrah Is a Microcosm of What We’ve Experienced for the Last 70+ Years’
“We have something to say. We’ve been saying it, but, unfortunately, major media outlets have been unwilling to take the leap and actually hear the Palestinian people and hear our story and share our stories.”
Ahmad Abuznaid on Israel/Palestine Apartheid, James Love on Bill Gates & Vaccine Politics
Where elite media present a frozen he said/she said, never-the-twain-shall-meet debate over Israel/Palestine, more and more people see a different way forward.
Media’s Top Meaning for ‘Proxy’ Is ‘Iranian Ally’
With the word “proxy,” corporate media downplay the extent of US interference in other countries, while frequently portraying Iran as undercutting other peoples’ independence.
Guardian Columnist’s Firing Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper’s Rightward Drift
The Guardian has fired one of its columnists for its US edition, Nathan Robinson, because Robinson jokingly tweeted about US military aid to Israel.
Open Letter to John Mulholland, US editor of The Guardian
The Guardian must make clear that its writers have the freedom to comment critically on Israel without suffering career consequences.
States Have No Inherent ‘Right to Exist’—but It’s a Media Fixation on Israel/Palestine
Coverage that asks whether Palestinians and pro-Palestinians acknowledge Israel’s “right to exist” poses an unhelpful question. The far more concrete, constructive and urgent one is: What is a fair arrangement under which all the peoples of historic Palestine can live?
Ritchie Torres: The AOC Alternative Who Isn’t
Despite the media hype, Ritchie Torres not joining AOC’s Squad is not a case of a fellow progressive challenging the group’s pro-Palestine position, but rather a politician considerably to their right declaring that he is much more at home with the Democratic establishment.
Israel Isn’t Signing ‘Peace’ Deals
“Peace deal” is a misleading label to apply to agreements that help cement a belligerent military alliance against Iran, and allow violence against Palestinians, Libyans and Yemenis to continue.
‘Foreign Policy of This Country Has to Reject US Exceptionalism’
“Foreign policy has to be grounded in global cooperation, human rights…respect for international law, privileging diplomacy over war.”
Media Show Little Interest in Israeli Bombing of Gaza
Israel is bombing Palestine again, although you likely wouldn’t guess that from watching TV news.
Chinese ‘Imperialism’ in Hong Kong Concerns US Media; Puerto Rican, Palestinian Colonies, Not So Much
While one cannot describe China’s national security law as an act of “colonialism” or “imperialism,” since Hong Kong is part of China, FAIR conducted a study comparing media coverage of Hong Kong’s national security law and actual colonialism by the US in Puerto Rico, and by its ally Israel in Palestine.
Media Urge Palestinians to Take Crumbs—Because Democracy Is Not on Offer
Pretend that colonial larceny underwritten by the US empire is the only option available to Palestinians, and it’ll be harder for them to build support for a just outcome.
‘This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It’s a Nonstarter’
“We are looking at a situation where the two-state solution may no longer be possible, and it may be time for a struggle for equal rights between Palestinians and Israelis in the entire land from the river to the sea.”
