Israeli treatment of journalists in Gaza and US media silence
A blistering attack on Israel's handling of journalists in Gaza and on American newsrooms for refusing to call the war a genocide — bad for the credibility of mainstream US media.
- Israeli forces are accused of detaining, abusing, and killing journalists in Gaza to remove witnesses to war crimes.
- US reporters are charged with hiding the story, because saying it on air would cost them their jobs.
- The claim: pro-Israel owners and executives control most major American media outlets and set the limits of coverage.
- US military aid to Israel, put at hundreds of billions of dollars, is framed as money extracted from American taxpayers by a foreign government.
Outlook: Expect the fight over how American media covers Gaza — and over continued US funding for Israel — to keep escalating.