Covering Palestine: Historic news clippings reveal US media complicity in Israel's crimes
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Covering Palestine: Historic news clippings reveal US media complicity in Israel's crimes Submitted by Fleur Hargreaves on Wed, 10/28/2026 - 13:45 An archive of American newspaper…
For years, mainstream media has been criticised for its failure to report accurately on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, allowing Israel to commit crimes with impunity.
In July the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Fransesca Albanese, released a report about the media complicity in genocide.
Her report details how the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists, Israeli media’s incitement, and the legitimisation from international coverage have facilitated genocide and obstructed accountability.
Outlets relied heavily on Israeli sources, using the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 to justify Israel’s subsequent onslaught and present the conflict as though it began exclusively with the attack.
Opening of the article, excerpted from Middle East Eye. To read the rest, open the article on the publisher's site.
MarketNews shows the headline and summary published by the outlet. The full article is on the publisher's website. (www.middleeasteye.net)
