From regular, broadcast media, to newspapers, to social media platforms, bias against Palestinians has been overwhelming.
23 March: A new poll found that even though some 30,000 more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis since October, half of Americans didn’t know which side has lost more lives. Ryan Heuser / @heuser.bsky@quadrismegistus: Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times’ biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza @wawog_now , who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com
23 March 2024: The BBC made a ‘mistake’ in choosing to show Israel’s defence against genocide charges in full – despite only showing clips of South Africa’s arguments to the opposite, a top official has said. Watch BBC editorial policy director David Jordan make the admission to MPs3 April: Michael Mansfield KC in shutting down what’s nothing short of Israel propaganda. That ANY presenter can utter such BS 6 mths into a genocide & claim its ‘push back’ is beyond pale. It’s neither an intelligent or credible line of questioning – obtuse & offensive. To even suggest genocide must first be proved in a Court made me almost throw my remote control at the TV screen
31 March: “Lives ended”!!!15 April: Mehdi on media bias
On being silenced
Clare Daley speaks of the threats to media freedom
Social media bias against Palestinian content
On proven rape allegations of children in Israeli prisons. Compare the reaction in the media of such a revelation, with alleged claims without evidence of rape of Israeli hostages. 31 Jan, 2024: After three months of massacres, Newsweek’s Spencer Guard writes: “Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History”
People will die because of the BBC… Tony Benn passionately refuses to be silent on aid to Palestine, accusing the BBC of capitulating to Israeli censorship – video from 2009
It’s a systematic propaganda campaign, which leading Zionists who are deeply embedded in Western media like the NYT, BBC, Guardian, have played a key role in also pushing, along with the political class. Here Chris Gunness discusses this issue.24,January, 2024: This AP/Reuters story on the IDF hospital killing that the ABC’s running quotes the “Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry”, even though Jenin is in the West Bank and the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank is under the PA’s jurisdictionWhat Western media never reports
How AP framed the headlines in the passive tenseRula Jabreel speaking on media bias from 2015AJ Journalist Sana Saeed looks at who is allowed to talk about Palestinians and the genocide in Gaza and who isn’t. Israeli army spokesperson. Israeli ambassador. Israeli spokesperson. U.S. military analyst. National Security Council spokesperson. Pro-Israel student.
The woman on the left is called an ‘innocent girl’ while on the right this is a ‘young lady’. Turns out the ‘innocent girl’ is an IDF soldier.Thomas Friedman’s article was later pulledHeadline in WSJ6 Feb 2024: 3 months into the war, the NY Times finally publishes this. Miko Peled: “Are you out of your minds? Shame on you both.” Response to James Whale the host of a political show
CBC just cannot bring itself to utter the word Palestine, referring to it instead as region where Israel was establishedReport on Media Bias: what happens when Palestinians are denied access to free speech on social media platforms?Hanan Ashrawi responds to the BBC’s biased questions
This is from X, which bans accounts for saying ‘de-colonize’ and for saying ‘from the river to the sea, we will be free’ – both of which have no reference to murdering anyone, while leaving accounts that call for the actual wiping of an entire people.
They did not mention of course that the synagogue was actually having a real estate day selling land in Gaza
This is how CBC news published the story of little Hend who was killed by Israelis as she called for help in her father’s car who was also killed along with their rescuers
MSNBC reporter talking about Rafah & mentions the Nakba in which “Palestinians feel, & this is debated, that they were forced from their homes.” Nakba is NOT debated.
16 Feb 2024: Howard Jacobson, British novelist and journalist, on Newsnight complaining that the BBC is showing too many images of death and destruction in Gaza. ‘What you do when you do that is you take a side…it is agonising to see what is happening but there are reasons for it.’
Host Nadine Doris insists her guest condemn Hamas and when he doesn’t she ends the interview.
“Chilling discovery” – turns out to be a picture of the Al Aqsa mosque in Palestinian homes
22 Feb 2024: Yves Engler posted on X: “CTV has directed journalists not to use word “Palestine”, featured far more than voices & cultivated “culture of fear” in newsroom over criticizing . Today I asked CTV Montréal @SGirouxCTV if he felt CTV coverage enabled genocide. His terse answer suggests he may agree”
“Why did he do it? Four major news outlets have almost the exact same headline for the self-immolation of 25-year old Aaron Bushnell. Not one of them mentions the words “Gaza” or “genocide,” the reason for Aaron’s protest, or the word “Palestine,” his last words spoken.”
With hunt at NYT for exposing details of the Anat scandal
On anti-Palestinian bias and the NYT
2 March 2024: A headline in the NYTimes is designed to make you feel sorry for Israel after the mass killing of 112 Gazans in the Flour Massacre.
Host tells guest: “yes but you don’t see Israelis raping Palestinian women.”
One week after October 7 Noor Harazeen reported live from Gaza that she saw at least 10 actually beheaded toddlers. No one in the Western media reported this
15 March 2024: Meta suspends the Facebook page of prominent Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza.BBC runs special on Israeli hostage months after his release and ignores massacres.
20 March 2024: Jewish Voices for Peace wrote on X: “Fixed it for you, NYT. What’s conspicuously and dangerously missing from this New York Times headline covering the genocide on Gaza is culpability.”18 April: Facebook silencing Kit of the GreyZone
12 April: @sanasaeed: Amanpour says there ‘are no journalists on the ground in Gaza’. Stewart corrects her, saying there are: Palestinians & they’re being killed. She responds ‘yes, but we need independent,western journalists’ She switches gears swiftly but her initial lament gives away the biggest problem in coverage from US newsrooms, who defer to Israeli narratives & ignore the Palestinians documenting their own genocide.Rachel Riley, from Channel 4. on ‘countless videos that other people have seen’ of woman being split open etc. The BBC host tells her there aren’t and she insists that ;other people saw it’
Genocidal maniac Mosab Hassan says he would kill 300 million Arabs and 1.6 Billion Muslims (his own words) and save a cow
Piers Morgan interviewed this guy 3 times and never questioned him about his genocidal declarations
1 May: ‘If you’re watching this… then Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel’. Correspondent Imran Khan recorded his last report from occupied East Jerusalem pre-empting the Netanyahu government’s unanimous decision to close Al Jazeera in Israel.
10 May: Dr. Phil interviews Netenyahu10 May: @mtracey: Netanyahu tells Dr. Phil the US campus protests actually have nothing to do with Israel’s offensive in Gaza, they’re just a random “anti-Semitic explosion.” Dr. Phil agrees, citing completely fake ADL stats about the supposed 360% increase in “anti-Semitic activity” since Oct. 7
5 May: Israeli forces have raided Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem. They took away journalists’ equipment.11 May: MSNBC expresses regret for giving too much context about Palestine.
Ana Kasparian of the “home of the progressives” network The Young Turks spreading the 40 beheaded babies hoax, justifying the lack of evidence with “maybe the parents don’t want photos of it being spread.” This was on November 30th, long after it was already debunked
Alon Mizrahi I without equality there’s no freedom @alon_mizrahi: Notice the almost satanic deception: people ‘have been evacuated’, suggesting someone considerately evacuated them to safety, which can only be Israel, right? So, in reporting the displacement of a million people as part of an ongoing genocide of 7 months, the WSJ plants in its readers’ minds an image of Israel as a benevolent force
3 June: @zei_squirrel this is amazing. Here’s Bill Maher, with the good “progressive” Matt Duss sitting and nodding along, saying Palestinians are all pedophiles. This is coming from a Zionist as he’s defending Israel which is literally a safe haven for pedophiles and gives them honorary awards
15 June: Briahna Joy Gray has revealed that The Hill has banned Norman Finkelstein from appearing on their outlet because they say he is a “Holocaust denier”. His parents are literally Holocaust survivors. Briahna also details the sabotaging of the show by Zionists
22 June: NYT does not mention that israel made the strike
25 Oct 2024: Very concerning that there is a news blackout in the United Kingdom on the murder by Israel of the 4 British Oxfam engineers who were attempting to fix a water supply in Gaza. They were in a marked vehicle and had notified and obtained permission from the IDF prior to commencing work.
