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Want to really know what’s going on in the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza?
Not a chance.
As we have extensively reported, America’s great ally of “Freedom and Democracy,” Israel, is not only an apartheid state (according to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, International Commission of Jurists etc.), it is a controlled dictatorship that has banned foreign reporters to enter Gaza.
Not only that, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists, “at least 95 journalists and media workers were among the more than 31,000 killed since the war began on October 7—with more than 30,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel.”
A newly released report from the Center for Media Monitoring showed that the media coverage in the U.K. on the genocide in Gaza has been favorable to the Israeli side, while downplaying the plight of the Palestinians.
The report intended to look into the media coverage in the U.K. following the 7 October Hamas attack that opened the door to a massive slaughter of Gazans perpetrated by the extremist government in Israel. The report said news items on Palestinian deaths compared to coverage of Israeli deaths are dramatically slanted.
When Israelis are killed, emotive words like “massacres” and “atrocities” were used to describe the killings at a significantly higher rate than when reporting on Palestinian deaths, this study found.
The study also found that Israeli sources were cited at a much higher rate than Arabs, which helps form the narrative. The study—which observed both news articles and broadcasts—said even when an anchor or a news reporter is slightly critical of Israel, they usually qualify their statement, acknowledging that Israel has a right to defend itself.
The study found that Israel’s “right to defend itself,” has been used five times as often in media reports then Annie mentioned of the Palestinian right to defend themselves.
The study also noted that when commentators mention the number of casualties in Gaza, they often cite “Hamas-run” government agencies, which is a clear “mechanism to cast doubt and delegitimize claims” from the enclave, where international media has been essentially banned.
TRENDPOST: The study also said that any comment from the IDF or an Israeli politician is taken as the truth, despite clear lies and media manipulation. (See “PRESSTITUTES—MEDIA WHORES—PUMP UP POLITICIANS CALL FOR WAR WITH IRAN” 30 Jan 2024, “U.S. MEDIA OUTLETS PRO ISRAEL, REPORT SHOWS” 30 Jan 2024, and “ISRAEL: JOURNALISTS IN GAZA, WE’LL KILL YOU!” 20 Feb 2024.)
It was revealed last week that Israel may have tortured staffers from the UNRWA to get them to confess to playing a role in the Hamas attack, which resulted in the U.S. and other Western governments withdrawing the much-needed funding from the agency.
Reuters said it reviewed a report by the agency that “detailed allegations of mistreatment in Israeli detention made by unidentified Palestinians, including several working for UNRWA.”
“Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention, and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities.”
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UNRWA, which Israel has long dreamed of closing down, announced Monday that Israel has not provided evidence linking 450 agency employees to militant groups, according to the Associated Press.
Israel alleged that 12 employees of the UN agency took part in the 7 October Hamas attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and resulted in over 300 hostages. The mere allegation prompted the U.S. to suspend funding for the vital group that works in Gaza.
Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, told Sky News that the move to defund allegations was a “disgrace,” Common Dreams noted.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has detailed how the media is fully controlled by governments and those who fund them to keep selling the Israel War and banishing all those who provide facts that are contrary to what the Presstitutes are selling to the general public:
● “WHITE HOUSE CONDEMNS UNHINGED FOX NEWS HOST WHO ACCUSED CNN ANCHORS OF BEING ‘SELF-HATING JEWS’” (7 Nov 2023)
● “ANTI-ISRAELI-WAR PROTESTS BREAK OUT AROUND THE WORLD IN OPPOSITION TO GAZA GENOCIDE, FACE MEDIA BLACKOUTS” (14 Nov 2023)
● “ANTI-GENOCIDE PROTESTS CONTINUE TO BREAK OUT AROUND THE WORLD, AS WESTERN MEDIA TRIES TO LOOK AWAY” (5 Dec 2023)
● “U.S. MEDIA OUTLETS PRO ISRAEL, REPORT SHOWS” (30 Jan 2024)
● “CNN STAFFERS ACCUSE NETWORK OF ONLY PROMOTING ISRAELI PROPAGANDA” (6 Feb 2024)
The Study
The Center for Media Monitoring is a U.K. organization that was started in 2018 to monitor the British media and how it reported on Muslims and Islam.
The center noted that the media often whitewashes any mention that Israel is an occupying force and continues to steal Palestinian land to this day. “There has been very little reference to the Israeli and Egyptian blockades of Gaza that have turned the territory into what some have called ‘an open-air prison,’” the report said.
TREND FORECAST: The pro-Israel trend in the media will only harden, and any voice who speaks out in favor of life in Gaza will be shot down as a Hamas sympathizer, who would support Adolf Hitler if they lived during WWII. Of course, these attacks are vacuous, and the people who level them are paid to promote that propaganda.
But one needs only to look at the Biden administration’s hundreds of billions of dollars of support of Ukraine to keep bloodying the killing fields as an example of how the establishment doubles down on this blasphemy.
Ukraine is on the retreat, it’s running out of money and troops, and polls show that its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, would lose if there was an election held today. But still, any voice calling for peace in Ukraine is silenced and called an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin.