The National Press Club of Australia cancelled Chris Hedges’ talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel, writes Chris Hedges.
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.
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.
Armed with a report on the state broadcaster’s pro-Israel coverage of Gaza, journalist Peter Oborne in a parliamentary meeting last week eviscerated the BBC over its shameful reporting.
How many foreign reporters are in Gaza? None. The Palestinian reporters who fill the void often pay with their lives.
The appeal to boycott the April 27 event says the White House’s support for Israel’s genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza.