Where do English-language outlets on the Internet stand on the genocide in Gaza? The following is based on their top search result on Google for “genocide in gaza” on May 23rd 2024.
They are arranged in this order (subject to my own subjectivity):
- genocide as fact.
- genocide as allegation or accusation, as a controversy.
- genocide denial.
Quoted text is seen as weaker than non-quoted text.
Here we go (links in italics are subject to link rot – half will be gone by 2029):
- The Nation: Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is a World Historical Crime
- Common Dreams: It’s Not Complicated: Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
- Des Moines Register: I’m a Holocaust scholar. We need to talk about what’s happening in Gaza. – an opinion piece that makes the case for genocide but says that even if it is not a genocide, it is close enough to be alarmed.
- Reuters: UN expert says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, calls for arms embargo
- Financial Times: UN expert says Israel committing genocide in Gaza
- Middle East Monitor: Israel committing genocide in Gaza, new study concludes
- United Nations News: Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
- CNN: ‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN rights expert says
- NPR: A top U.N. court says Gaza genocide is ‘plausible’ but does not order cease-fire – funded by the US government, very White Liberal.
- Aljazeera: UN expert accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza – funded by the Qatar government. Seen as pro-Arab.
- AP News: South Africa tells top UN court Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as landmark case begins
- Wikipedia: Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza
- PBS NewsHour: Experts give 2 perspectives on accusations Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
- BBC: What did ICJ ruling mean in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel – funded by the UK government. The article notes that “plausible” (see the headlines above) means that “Palestinians had ‘plausible rights to protection from genocide’ – rights which were at a real risk of irreparable damage. The judges had stressed they did not need to say for now whether a genocide had occurred but concluded that some of the acts South Africa complained about, if they were proven, could fall under the United Nations’ Convention on Genocide.”
- Vox: How to think through allegations of genocide in Gaza – dated November 13th 2023.
- NBC News: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rejects accusations Israel has committed genocide in Gaza
- American Enterprise Institute (AEI): Israel Is Not Committing “Genocide” in Gaza – dated April 20th 2024. AEI is one of the main right-wing think tanks in the US. It provides research for Republican talking points.
- American Jewish Comittee (AJC): 5 Reasons Why the Events in Gaza Are Not “Genocide”
Other well-known outlets, like the New York Times (which tries to avoid words like “genocide” and “Palestine”!), did not make the top of Google’s search results.
If a trees falls in a forest: If a genocide takes place and the news media and the biggest encyclopedia in history treat it with both-sides “objectivity”, did it exist? The Holocaust: Did it exist?
– Abagond, 2024.
See also:
- media guides
- Notes towards a media guide to Gaza – from 2012, but still more or less right.
- MBFC media guide
- RationalWiki media guide
- The 2023 Israel-Hamas war
- The genocide in Gaza – I have not yet written a post on it.
- Gaza
- genocide
- link rot
- posts on the above mentioned outlets:
- The propaganda model
- Edward Said: Permission to Narrate
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