BBC News presenters still panic whenever a guest mentions Israel’s genocide, despite the findings of the International Court of Justice, United Nations and human rights groups, and quickly push the Israeli propaganda line – or are supporters of Israel coldly determined to do so – but in Israel many media outlets freely use the word even though the regime will not:
UK broadcasters describe Israel’s criminal forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians as ‘evacuations’, but Israeli media admit their government is committing ethnic cleansing, a war crime and often a component of genocide:
UK media frequently parrot Israeli claims that ‘Hamas’ is using the civilian population of Gaza as human shields – despite the obvious facts that people have nowhere else to go in the tiny enclave and that international law does not allow the killing of ‘human shields’ even if that’s what they were – but they are silent about the fact that Israel is using Palestinian hostages as human shields on a daily, and widespread, basis. Israeli media, however, make no secret of it:
The BBC and others continue to use Israel’s narrative that its slaughter of at least two hundred thousand Palestinian civilians is about securing the return of Israeli captives, despite the fact that captives who have died have been almost all killed by Israeli bombs and all could have been released within a month of October 2023 through negotiation. Israel’s media acknowledge that Netanyahu has no interest in the wellbeing and release of the hostages or of looking for a peaceful resolution and is instead looking to his own interests and is hated by captives’ families for his disdain for their loved ones:
