Western Media Shaping Gaza Narrative With Deception and Lies

Posted on October 12, 2024 by kaysee

We rely on the media to provide us with the news. We assume that they are out there on the streets getting the stories, researching, investigating, verifying and then putting it together for us in the various mediums – print, online, multimedia. We trust them to give us the confirmed version of events and incidents.

But in the past few years, especially starting with the Covid scamdemic, sections of the community have woken up to the realisation that the media, as an entity, cannot be trusted to provide us with the facts. In the past year, with the conflict in Gaza, it seems as if the media have sunk to new lows in their deceptive and false news reporting.

The public have been deceived – they get fake news from the media and repeat the falsehoods. If they knew the facts, would they still support the actions of Israel? Some may do so, just like the ones who still wear masks. But there would be others who would be shocked by the reality and realise that they have been misled. It used to be interesting listening to different viewpoints on talkback radio, but now, when it is a discussion on the Middle East conflict, it is a section of the brainwashed listeners repeating the media narrative: beheaded babies, mass rapes, tunnels under hospitals and schools, human shields, the only democracy in the Middle East. Along with the unsolicited advice that Australians should support Israel.

Instead of  relying on news from the Mainstream Media (MSM), the Alternative Media (Alt Media) or the Conservative Media (Con Media), we need to consider other options. If you are someone who applies reason and prefers data and evidence so that you can analyse the details and reach conclusions that are logical not biased, seek other sources for your news. The truth is available if we know where to look. It is the smaller independent media outlets, little known blogs and sites, as well as the accounts of citizen journalists on social media sites who have no hidden agenda except finding and sharing evidence-based news.

In this thread, I want to post content related to the media role in the spread of lies, fake news and deception about the events of 7 October 2023, and in the year that followed. The obvious bias that has been used to make a case that was supportive of the actions of Israel, while portraying all Palestinians in a negative light.

I am pulling together information that has already been posted or new material. Bringing it all under one thread will help to show how the collective media (Western and Israeli) have spun a tale to convince their gullible readers and audiences that falsehoods are the truth. Like those who continue to wear porous masks believing that they are being protected from a non-virus, there will be some who will persist in their belief that the media outlets they follow are relaying to them confirmed, objective facts, not biased reports which are just following the editorial policy decisions of their employers.

If you have links to content that shows the media fabrications and deception when they have been reporting on this conflict in Gaza (and now extending to other parts of the Middle East), share them here. It will make it easy to locate and pass on this information to others, if it is under one thread.

An example of the western media reporting on the Hamas attack on 7 October  2023.
We’ll get to the facts, with links to articles and videos, in the comments section.


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36 Responses to Western Media Shaping Gaza Narrative With Deception and Lies

  1. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 12, 2024 at 2:09 pm

    I had not planned to begin the comments in this thread with this. But I have just come across these videos and cannot bypass them.

    When doctors who are used to seeing patients who are ill, wounded and dying in their daily work in clinics and hospitals are in tears, or close to tears, while speaking about their experiences in Gaza, we have to take notice of what they are saying.

    I thought what I was seeing on social media (which provides footage and news of what is taking place) was heartbreaking. But even that is not close to reality.

    This video is 6.18 minutes. Watch and listen carefully to what Dr Ahmad Yousaf, a doctor who volunteered in Gaza, is saying and pay attention to the final minute.

    Dr. Ahmad Yousaf

    Everything I saw on TikTok and Instagram and all the Telegram, all the stuff we had from alternative media because you can’t be there. It was 100 times worse than it could have ever imagined.

    I have no ties. I’m not from there. I have no blood there….

    I have no ties to Gaza either. I’m not from there. No blood connections to that place.
    So why does this matter to me?


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  2. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 12, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan responds in this CNN interview and says that the media presentation of this genocide is misleading.

    This video is 2.43 minutes. If you can spare the time to watch it.

    Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

    This is not a humanitarian crisis, Kate, and I’m going to say it very clearly for your viewers to hear: This is genocide […] Media agencies will have reckon with their major role in the genocide.

    The recent available stats


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  3. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 12, 2024 at 2:43 pm

    I watched this video last weekend, and then posted it in the Open Thread. Since then, the status has changed and it requires a sign in. Age restricted due to “Community Guidelines”. The information blurb below the video has also vanished. But I had saved it, so here it is.

    1/YouTube (sign-in) version
    Inside Western media’s reporting on Gaza

    When political leaders speak of genocide, they repeat a timeworn mantra: “Never again.”

    Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, “again” has become reality – mass casualties broadcast almost in real time by its victims.

    This film is about an alternative version of that reality – the one told by major Western news organisations – and how it has provided cover for Israel’s war on Gaza.

    Based on interviews with more than a dozen insiders, it lifts the curtain on the inner workings of agenda-setting outlets like CNN, the BBC and The New York Times.

    Contributors:
    “Adam” – journalist, CNN
    “Sara” – former journalist, BBC
    Ghassan Abu Sitta – reconstructive surgeon
    Jodi Rudoren – former Jerusalem bureau chief, The New York Times
    Jeremy Scahill – co-founder, Drop Site News
    Craig Mokhiber – former senior human rights official, United Nations

    or

    2/Al Jazeera site
    If you don’t want to sign-in, you can watch the same video here.
    Failing Gaza: Behind the Lens of Western Media

    3/
    A short clip from the above video


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 12, 2024 at 2:53 pm

    Max Blumenthal’s documentary released on October 7.
    The same sign-in required on YouTube. Age restricted due to “Community Guidelines”.

    1/ YouTube (sign-in) version
    Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza

    or

    2/ Twitter version
    Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells The Destruction Of Gaza

    Watch MaxBlumenthal’s new documentary takedown of the media deceptions and hoaxes Israel pushed to manufacture consent for its genocidal assault on Gaza

    In collaboration w/ propandco & sutjhally


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  5. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 13, 2024 at 2:41 pm

    Steven Methven
    How the Media Became a Weapon in the Gaza Genocide

    Western journalists have blood on their hands.

    The role of the media in covering one of the most one-sided, destructive and grotesque assaults in recent memory hasn’t simply been to conceal its excesses from its audience (though maintaining political docility has certainly seemed an imperative). Rather, by careful framing, selective omission and the strategic deployment of a sheen of ‘objectivity’, the media has functioned as an actor in this war. Not, of course, as a combatant, but as something far more valuable than mere human lives to a state wishing to hide its crimes behind the lie of a modern, progressive democracy: a weapon.

    From the BBC to CNN, from The New York Times to The Guardian, outlet after outlet has made itself a strategic asset, both for Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal regime, and for the western powers urgently seeking to maintain the status quo in the region, no matter the cost.


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  6. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 13, 2024 at 2:54 pm

    13 October 2023
    Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories

    Extraordinary Claims, Zero Evidence

    One case in point is the claim that, during their incursion into southern Israel, Hamas fighters stopped to round up, kill and mutilate 40 Israeli babies, beheading them and leaving their bodies behind….

    Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence, and a story like this should have been met with serious skepticism, given who was making the claim. The first question any reporter should have asked was, “Where is the evidence?” Given multiple opportunities to stand by it, the IDF continually distanced itself from the claims. Nevertheless, the story was simply too useful not to publish.


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  7. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 13, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    Rather, by careful framing, selective omission and the strategic deployment of a sheen of ‘objectivity’, the media has functioned as an actor in this war.

    Like in their headlines.
    Cleverly crafted with omissions.

    The Israeli military attacked a car, shot the passengers, then shot the ambulance that tried to save the girl. But
    CNN says
    .
    It must have happened mysteriously. So
    Sky news says
    .
    Looks like the parents are letting their children play in the backyard and have fun. They don’t care about sending them to school. Since
    Independent says


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  8. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 13, 2024 at 3:18 pm

    American journalist decries Western media’s ignoring of Israel’s war crimes

    ‘I think the biggest problem with Western media is more in what they don’t show than in what they do show,’ says Max Blumenthal

    The true face of Israel’s war on Gaza is hidden from Western public opinion through the Western media’s ignoring of Israel’s attacks and war crimes, according to a US journalist.

    “On Oct. 7, the Western media did not show the losses that the Israeli military took at the hands of Hamas and other factions in Gaza. They focused exclusively on civilians being kidnapped and then began with not just the killings that took place of civilians on Oct. 7, which were real and documented, but fabricating atrocities about beheaded babies and babies burned in ovens, and so on, in order to create leverage and political space for Israel to totally destroy Gaza,” said Blumenthal.


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 15, 2024 at 6:43 pm

    From RT
    Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 22, including 15 children

    The building was being used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians, according to media reports

    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted a school serving as a refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday evening, killing at least 22 civilians, including 15 children, several media outlets reported on Monday, citing local emergency services.

    Sky News-1
    .
    Sky News-2


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 17, 2024 at 4:08 pm

    Why has the Western Media been silent to the reality of what is taking place in Gaza?

    Doctors and medical professionals are calling out the horror of the scenes they witness, and the governments and media are silent. These doctors are not connected to politics or activism. Their focus is on healing and health.

    Among the doctors who have worked in Gaza as volunteers is Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon in California at the San Joaquin General Hospital. He has played a leading role in trying to get some action.

    Reposting this letter.

    2 October 2024
    Letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris

    Open Letter From American Medical Professionals Who Served In Gaza

    We are 99 American physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, nurses, and midwives who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Combined, we spent 254 weeks volunteering in Gaza’s hospitals and clinics…..

    …We are not politicians. We do not claim to have all the answers. We are simply healing professionals who cannot remain silent about what we saw in Gaza. Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered with our bullets.

    President Biden and Vice President Harris, we urge you: end this madness now!


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 17, 2024 at 4:13 pm

    This is Dr. Feroze Sidhwa’s article posted in NYT, last week.

    9 October 2024
    65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza

    What American physicians and nurses saw firsthand in Gaza should inform the United States’ Gaza policy. The lethal combination of what Human Rights Watch describes as indiscriminate military violence, what Oxfam calls the deliberate restriction of food and humanitarian aid, near-universal displacement of the population, and destruction of the health care system is having the calamitous effect that many Holocaust and genocide scholars warned of nearly a year ago.


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 17, 2024 at 4:24 pm

    Amy Goodman speaks to a doctor and a nurse from the US who volunteered in Gaza.

    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon in California, the San Joaquin General Hospital and
    Rajaa Musleh, a Palestinian American nurse, is the country representative in Gaza of MedGlobal, a medical humanitarian aid group. She previously worked as a nurse at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

    17 October 2024
    Democracy Now.
    Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza:
    U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse

    Rajaa Musleh:
    My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza


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  14. mh says:
    October 17, 2024 at 6:18 pm

    Chris Brunet
    @realChrisBrunet

    After years of intentionally avoiding the topic, I’ve had dozens—if not hundreds—of people ask why I’ve recently started speaking out against Israel.

    I’ll be honest—it was the mass rape scandal from a few months ago. I couldn’t get it out of my mind all summer, and it pushed me to finally start tweeting my true feelings.

    https://x.com/realChrisBrunet/status/1843478017433018770


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 19, 2024 at 3:29 pm

    Reposting here (posted by mh in the Open Thread)

    The BBC Won’t Show You This
    Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED

    .
    Can you trust these vids?
    Yes. They are from the source.

    IDF-1

    Israeli soldiers post TikTok videos showing them destroying aid and making fun of destroyed schools that displaced Palestinian had used as shelter before being forcibly evicted by the soldiers.

    IDF-2

    “The pink is nicer on you”

    While thousands of civilians are being ethnically cleansed in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, Israeli occupation soldiers filmed themselves inside a home belonging to a killed or displaced family, rifling through wardrobes of Palestinian children.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 19, 2024 at 3:36 pm

    TIME’s new cover:
    The Death of Yahya Sinwar
    .
    AIPAC Tracker cover for TIME
    .
    A Graphic designer posts this


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 19, 2024 at 3:49 pm

    If you are with the independent media reporting the facts, here’s what happens:

    One week ago, Asa published this.
    .
    In Grate Britain

    Asa Winstanley, associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, had multiple electronic devices confiscated by British counterterrorism police during their raid on his residence on Thursday.

    Statement from Asa Winstanley

    “Thank you so much to everyone for the torrent of support and solidarity you’ve sent my way. Your messages of love and support have been very important to us in the context of an experience no one should have to go through.

    I have dedicated my career to journalism and telling the truth but right now my priority is the protection of my sources. We are taking legal steps to ensure that happens.

    Journalism is not a crime.”

    Asa Winstanley, 18 October 2024


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 19, 2024 at 4:12 pm

    Has the MSM told you this?
    What is happening in Gaza.
    Please don’t stop continuing to talk and post about Gaza…
    .

    Or shown you this?
    The Israeli drone
    This is the worst war crime I have ever witnessed….
    .

    The most moral army in the world?
    Or criminal


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 20, 2024 at 7:00 pm

    Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News

    Since Israel could not continue to prosecute this war without American aid, the battle for the American mind is as important as actions on the ground. And as the propaganda war wages, the lines between journalist and fighter blur. The fact that many of the top journalists supplying us with news about Israel/Palestine are literally former Israeli intelligence agents only underlines this.


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 20, 2024 at 7:09 pm

    How do those media commentators with satirical and cartooning skills see this war?

    Not just “whatever” is taking place in the Middle-East.
    But also, you know, that war between good and evil? Choosing a side?

    Here are two fine examples.

    J. Leak
    .

    C. Wilcox


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 22, 2024 at 4:41 pm

    Dr Feroze Sidhwa

    Sidhwa-1

    “I’m not Jewish, I’m not Israeli, I’m not Palestinian, I’m not Arab, I’m not Muslim, I’m not Christian.”

    FerozeSidhwa, a doctor who volunteered in Gaza, says he’s received pushback for describing what he saw despite not having a stake in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Sidhwa-2

    “Not a single physician, not a single nurse, nobody who’s been there, has seen any Hamas fighter running around in any hospital”

    American surgeon FerozeSidhwa who treated Palestinians in Gaza refutes Israel’s claims of fighters in Gaza hospitals.

    Sidhwa-3
    Interview here


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  22. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 22, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    New York Times
    Journalism vs Propaganda
    1947 vs 2024

    March 1947
    What was reported as news then.
    .

    October 2024
    What passes as news now.


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  23. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 22, 2024 at 5:01 pm

    Patrick Bet-David

    The wriggle and squirm to defend the side he supports.

    PBD-1
    With Piers
    .
    PBD-2
    With Dan Blizerian
    .
    PBD-3
    With Dan Blizerian


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  24. mh says:
    October 22, 2024 at 7:15 pm

    PBD-2
    With Dan Blizerian
    .
    PBD-3
    With Dan Blizerian

    PBD gets owned.

    He is so average.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 23, 2024 at 4:58 pm

    (According to one poster, MSNBC has deleted this interview)

    Interview on MSNBC

    Jeremy Scahill furiously criticized the network, alongside politicians, for being a platform to promote Israel’s ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians.


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 23, 2024 at 5:03 pm

    If the real journos are in the war zone, there will be wider coverage of the truth. But will they be allowed in?

    Why have they not been permitted access for the past year?

    McGovern, 64 House Democrats Write to Biden Administration
    Urging Unimpeded Media Access to Gaza

    “The restrictions on media reporting have created significant challenges in obtaining accurate, verifiable information from Gaza, leading to increased skepticism about the limited reports that do emerge. At a time when reliable information is more critical than ever, the restrictions on foreign reporting undermine the very foundation of press freedom and democratic accountability,” wrote the members.

    In July, over 70 media and civil society organizations signed an open letter calling on Israel to grant journalists access to Gaza. Yet foreign media remains largely prohibited from entering the region, except for a few controlled trips arranged by the Israeli military. This effective ban on foreign reporting has placed an overwhelming burden on local journalists who are documenting the war they are living through. Tragically, at least 130 journalists have lost their lives since the start of the war, and those who remain face conditions of extreme hardship and danger.


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 27, 2024 at 4:45 pm

    Has the media told you how Hezbollah is hiding a stash of gold under a hospital in Beirut?

    A journalist, Steve Sweeney, went hunting for this gold.

    Part 1

    Part 2


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 27, 2024 at 4:53 pm

    The gullible will believe the media stories being relayed to them by their friends in the IDF. Those who understand the agenda, know why these fake stories are being published.

    It is a ploy to stoke tensions, bomb the hospital and destroy it. Ultimately drive away the people from their lands.

    Medics say ‘no gold and no money’ under Beirut hospital after Israeli claims

    “We were here at the hospital working, treating patients and then the [Israeli] video came out,” said Dr Omar Mneimne, speaking to The National from an operating theatre. “Obviously, we [have been] living in terror for the past 24 hours.”

    The hospital is independently run, but Hezbollah invited the media on a tour in a bid to refute the Israeli claims. Israel did not directly say the hospital would be attacked, instead stoking tensions by calling on Lebanese people to go there and retrieve their money.

    The medical team worked for seven hours overnight to move patients to hospitals across the region that could care for their specific conditions.

    “I don’t know what to say,” said another doctor, Mohamed Zaraket. “You saw the hospital. It’s a hospital for the Lebanese people, not for any political side. It was a shock for us.”


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 27, 2024 at 4:57 pm

    OffGuardian
    Let’s talk about….MSM Coverage of Israeli War Crimes

    Now, it’s not at all unusual that Israel should be committing war crimes, they’ve been doing so unchecked for decades.

    But what is less usual is seeing these war crimes appearing on front pages and in headlines in the controlled media.

    We’ve all been doing this long to have dispelled any idea the MSM cares about truth.

    They don’t care about truth. Not at all. In fact these days their internal structures barely permit them to recognize truth as a concept.


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  30. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 29, 2024 at 6:58 pm

    There are Israelis in Israel and Jews around the world who support Palestine and are against Zionism.

    Gideon Levy-1

    Gideon Levy-2

    Nurit Peled-Elhanan


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 29, 2024 at 7:07 pm

    There are some who are waking up to the truth.
    This opinion piece from a rabbi, published earlier this month.

    Oct. 11, 2024
    Aryeh Cohen
    I’m a rabbi and a former IDF soldier.
    This Yom Kippur I’m atoning for my part in the occupation

    This year, as Jews celebrate the High Holy Days, I feel a responsibility to model a different way of being Jewish. For this reason, earlier this month I joined a protest at the offices of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest Jewish pro-Israel organization in America. We were demanding that AIPAC stop pressuring Congress to continue funding Israel’s war in Gaza; the U.S. should halt military aid to Israel as long as we believe it is committing human rights violations.


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 29, 2024 at 7:13 pm

    27 Oct 2024
    Gaza Is the Horror That Can’t Be Denied. But Israelis Will Try

    Headlines have shifted to Iran, but Israel is still starving, bombing and expelling the population of northern Gaza. While Israeli society as a whole has activated its denial mode, the horrifying images – and the policy, statements and reality behind them – are causing some Israelis to protest war crimes, or even utter the word genocide

    24 Oct 2024
    Open Letter
    We, Israelis, are calling for global pressure on Israel
    to force an immediate ceasefire

    More than 2,000 Israelis have signed this letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’


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  34. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 30, 2024 at 7:05 pm

    Democracy Now

    Writer Naomi A Klein explains how the Israeli government is “fusing” the story of October 7 with the Holocaust to create “a new national identity” in an attempt to justify Israel’s expansionist assault into Gaza.


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 31, 2024 at 5:18 pm

    The Big Picture
    The untold history of the Israeli Defence Force

    Before Israel was founded in 1948, there were three Zionist militias: Haganah, Irgun and Lehi.

    They carried out terror attacks, bombings and assassinations in Palestine – to usher in a Jewish state by any means.

    The Big Picture’s Mohamed Hasan unpacks the history of the IDF


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 2, 2024 at 4:05 pm

    More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage

    More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to “recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality” over its reporting on Gaza.

    In a letter sent to Tim Davie, signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the corporation is criticised for failing its own editorial standards by lacking “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza”.


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