Coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Captives Demonstrates Dehumanization in Action
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...Saturday’s exchange offered a revealing view of the outsized role US corporate media play in the general dehumanization of the Palestinian people—an approach that conveniently coincides with the Middle East policy of the United States, which is predicated on the obsessive funneling of hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance and weaponry to Israel’s genocidal army. And now that President Donald Trump has decided that the US can take over Gaza by simply expelling its inhabitants, well, dehumanizing them may serve an even handier purpose.
Granted, it’s a lot easier for a news report to tell the individual stories of three people than to tell the stories of 183. But the relentless empathetic media attention to the three Israeli men—who, mind you, are not the ones currently facing a genocide—deliberately leaves little to no room for Palestinian victims of an Israeli carceral system that has for decades been characterized by illegal arbitrary detention, torture and in-custody death.
So it is that we learn the names and ages of the three Israelis, the names of their family members, and empathy-inducing details of their captivity and physical appearance, while the 183 Palestinians remain at best a side note, and at worst a largely faceless mass of newly freed terrorists...
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nazis proud to be nazis, the worst possible decay
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I noticed a massive decrease in coverage of attacks and deaths in Gaza and fewer suggesting genocide is occurring after the new administration took over. No more in depth coverage of insane Israeli politicians like before either. Used to be I would hear at least one interview a week with Palestinians in hospitals or aid organizations, but not recently.
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Where have you noticed this? What are you suggesting is going on?
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Not OP but... Lemmy, Tiktok, even mainstream media itself. There was clearly an agenda to make Biden look bad and Trump look good.
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I dunno, man. That would be a massive, coordinated effort—and lemmy is such a small community. Like 300,000 active users. So someone targeted this super niche platform? That’s just so unlikely.
TikTok, yeah. I could see multiple fronts pushing their own ideas, but to have one coordinated effort? It just doesn’t really seem feasible. Neither of us have proof of it happening or not, I’m just saying. It might be a little bias showing.
