22 March 2024 | Key Media Coverage
Israel’s siege of Gaza has created what aid officials are referring to as “man-made starvation”, with the territory facing the threat of mass deaths from famine in the coming weeks. Children are already dying from hunger. As part of its devastating war strategy against Hamas, Israel has restricted shipments of food and medicine to just a fraction of what Palestinian civilians need to survive. The crisis is an artificially created one. “Starvation is used as a weapon of war,” the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said this week. “Israel is provoking famine.”
15 March 2024 | Featured, Israeli Propaganda
Israel—and its supporters—regularly claim that Palestinians lie about how many Palestinians have been killed and injured as a result of Israeli violence. Experts who watch the statistics closely, disagree.
11 February 2024 | Dishonest Reporting, Key Media Coverage
The Guardian’s Chris McGreal published a long article on 4 February 2024 looking behind the management curtain in CNN, shedding light on the network’s pro-Israel bias that has left American viewers woefully uninformed and intentionally misled about Israel’s war on Gaza.
1 February 2024 | Key Media Coverage
Yesterday, the Guardian newspaper published an excellent feature on the destruction of Gaza’s neighborhoods. “Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israel in its war on Hamas.” It’s one of the best uses of the Web in news reporting that I’ve ever seen, and both the investigation and its presentation speaks for itself, once you start scrolling and the page literally comes alive to communicate the scale of the destruction. It will take you some time to go through it, it’s extensive.
20 December 2023 | Dishonest Reporting, Featured, Israeli Propaganda
Contents Background to October 7th (20 December 2023) The first Mondoweiss article challenging the narrative, “CNN report claiming sexual violence on October 7 relied on non-credible witnesses, some with undisclosed ties to Israeli govt” (1 December 2023)...