In Double Standards: Western Media and Falsification of Facts

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Afrasianet - Yusri Al Ghoul - The Western media often conceals the facts or works to reformulate them in a lowly way to serve the occupation, and it does not only seek to mislead public opinion, but according to deliberate plans that seek to consolidate the presence of the occupation in the region. 


I was surprised a short while ago, while listening by chance to a recorded interview with me on the American  (NPR)  radio, specifically with the well-known journalist Steve Inspik, that large parts of the meeting were cut, and the journalist's own questions were changed, to the point that I felt disgusted with this behavior, which shows the extent to which the West ignores the grievances of the Palestinians, and tries to inject poison with honey to the audience, so that they do not sympathize with the Palestinian cause, which today has become a regulator of moral positions around the world, and tomorrow will be a stain on the forehead of the silent and accomplices..


The media as a fourth authority plays a central role in shaping public awareness and directing public opinion, especially in international conflicts, and the Western media's coverage of what is happening in the Gaza Strip represents a blatant bias in favor of the "state" of occupation, as it is reflected in the language used, loose terminology, selection of sources, ignoring Palestinian victims and absenting their voices as well. It does not only seek to mislead public opinion, but also according to deliberate plans that seek to consolidate the presence of the occupation in the region and give it implicit legitimacy for its crimes committed against children and women. 


The attempt of this authority to change any media dialogue or cut out certain words in order to distort its sources from the Palestinians or even the Arabs, as happened to me a week ago, and even to try to mislead public opinion, as I said, that "Israel is a free state" and "its most moral army in the world", but the important thing is that this is colliding with an army of supporters of Palestine, who unfortunately have not been well invested so far, but this constitutes an important milestone in the history of the conflict. Unfortunately, in the face of the disregard of Arab official and media institutions, in addition to the silence of elites and health and cultural institutions about the killing that continues to affect all infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals and medical centers, which shows the world the extent of the decline of this occupation, in which the extremist Minister of Finance Smotrich is not ashamed to announce and threaten to resign if the fighting in the Gaza Strip is not escalated. 


This makes us need to invest all extremist statements to expose the practices of this racist "state" that was established on Arab land, surrounded by other Arab countries but sleeping, especially since the Arab media are mired in the arms of complicit or laggard regimes, instead of having a role in revolutionizing the masses and pushing them to demonstrate in all parts of the Arab region, which may score for them a point in their favor. Social media in multiple languages, to expose the practices of this Israeli criminality. 


During the follow-up of the foreign media, it is possible to discover the clear bias on the side of the "state" of occupation, through the use of misleading terms, such as describing massacres as clashes or resistance as terrorism, and this is the double standards that we have been working for years to expose through Palestinian and Arab youth through the Twitter platform (X), and other means of communication, and the Western media can see how it selects victims and highlights Israelis as if they are the dove of peace, while distorting the image of the Palestinian as if he is the devil or evil in the film Lie. The official American and British complicit. 


What is more obvious is the attempt to portray the occupation as being in an equal conflict between two parties, ignoring the historical and political context, as the "state" of occupation is supported by all the demons of the earth, while Palestine, Lebanon and some countries of the axis of resistance stand without a supporter, and some Arab intelligence may even go to cooperate with the occupation and the CIA to destroy the capabilities of any resistance or state of revolution that seeks to uproot the "state" of occupation from the region or at least confuse its calculations. 


Perhaps the reasons for media bias come due to official political pressure and influential Zionist lobbies that support these Western media channels, in addition to the control of the "state" of occupation over the narrative of the conflict in the West through public relations and diplomacy, as it periodically sends messages to many citizens and creates influential stories, unreal, full of fallacies and lies, while Palestinian diplomacy sleeps in deep slumber as if it does not concern it with anything, but may even fight the demonstrations that triumph for Gaza, and what is the speech of the Palestinian Minister of Information Ahmed Assaf recently in Turkey is a clear example of the extent to which the Palestinian Authority ignored the blood in Gaza, as he did not address what is happening in the Gaza Strip in any word. 


This media bias seeks not only to distort the image of the Palestinian and resist him, but to all the free people of the world, and does not seek to mislead Western public opinion and prevent sympathy for the Palestinian victims only, but also to prevent sympathy with all Arabs, and silence in the face of the massacres that have occurred and are taking place every day.


Here, it was necessary to fight media bias by all means and means, according to methodologies and methods that take into account the nature of the culture and way of thinking of the Western citizen, and I recently wrote on my page in the blue world "Facebook" several tips and guidance for free young people, who have enthusiasm in confronting this occupation, and the struggle to expose its practices, using alternative media and social media platforms, and supporting media boycott initiatives and exposing the falsity of the Zionist narrative by tracking what is issued and written, and then the contribution of free journalists and organizations. Western human rights defenders in solidarity with Palestine by working to spread all lies and expose them in order to serve as a deterrent to double standards.


We need to produce a strong media discourse that humanizes stories and does not digitize them, and then work to invite the masses, comrades and friends in Western countries to pressure the Western media to adopt the standards of neutrality and objectivity in the presentation, in addition to the need to support independent and alternative media to break the monopoly of the Zionist narrative.

 

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