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Corporate media have presented Israel’s killing spree as defensive, as a reaction to supposed Palestinian aggression.
Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has
misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting
that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency
between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to
understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
Corporate media have presented Israel’s killing spree as defensive, as a reaction to supposed Palestinian aggression. A
Financial Times headline (5/10/21) read, “Hamas Rocket Attacks Provoke Israeli Retaliation in Gaza.” The
New York Times’ description (5/12/21) was, “Hamas launched long-range rockets at Jerusalem on Monday evening,