onrust OP , 19 days ago

Disgracefully, the Index on Censorship appears high on hasbara supply too

Sure, it acknowledges that media and press freedoms for Palestinians are abysmal.

But in its reporting on Palestine, it goes on and on about ‘israeli’ occupier pains: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/?s=Palestine&id=114715

This is the world view that states that an ‘israeli’ journalist has been “killed”, while “Palestinian journalists have also been confirmed dead”.

Really? Magically confirmed dead? Without any perpetrator?

Purposefully murdered in order to silence them, more like it

onrust OP , 19 days ago

Why are European and US journalists not telling the truth on the genocide and atrocities in Gaza?

Here’s Owen Jones' answer:

“I think a lot of Western [journalists] just haven’t spoken out, partly because of racism. I don’t think they see Palestinians as equal human beings. (…)

[R]ampant, systemic anti-Palestinian racism throughout the Western media, which is so lacking in subtlety, (…)

And I think, subservience to Western foreign policy and also the fact that they are in some cases scared because they think they’ll get smeared for being critical of Israel. So they’re cowards. (…)

So I think it’s a mixture of bigotry, racism, and cowardice.“

video/mp4

onrust OP , 19 days ago

One symbolic shimmer: UNESCO has awarded all Palestinian journalists covering the genocide in Gaza the world press freedom prize:

"we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances (...) As humanity, we have a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression,” said Mauricio Weibel, chair of the international jury of media professionals

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/3/palestinian-journalists-covering-gaza-war-win-unesco-press-freedom-prize