The barrage of Israeli lies amplified and given credibility by the Western press violates a fundamental tenet of journalism, the duty to transmit the truth to the viewer or reader.
The media are legitimising Israel’s murder of journalists — and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of Western colonial control in the Middle East.
Protestors gathered outside the Washington offices of NBC and Fox News near the Capitol to decry the most recent assassinations of Palestinian journalists by the IDF.
Israel targeted a press tent in Gaza on Sunday and massacred five more Al Jazeera journalists. This adds to Israel’s historic slaughter of journalists, many of whom are now facing starvation.
“This is what extermination and genocide looks like” — Sharon Zhang reports on what people are finding in areas of Gaza made inaccessible by Israel’s siege.