Reporters killed and foreigners barred in Israel's battle for Gaza narrative

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/palestinian-reporters-killed-and-foreigners-barred-in-israels-battle-for-gaza-narrative

by zahirbmirza • 12 months ago

45 31 12 months ago

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zahirbmirza• 12 months ago

Narrative Control and the new Furnaces of Orwell.

Note to Moderators - This is not a Dupe (in my opinion and I will respect your greater insight) from what I have seen published on this site so far. The subject of this article covers an important starting point for discussion; that of the power of narrative control, selective publication and control of access to information.

quantified• 12 months ago

While the winners write the histories, their job is easier if the other narratives never existed.

asdefghyk6• 12 months ago

The guardian always publishes articles critical of Israel. Never has articles critical of Hamas.

Lots of downvotes but no evidence I'm incorrect .... What does a person make of that ?

iovrthoughtthis• 12 months ago

You have a lot of comments that start with "OBSERVATION"

What are you trying to communicate here?

asdefghyk6• 12 months ago

Ok I will remove the word OBSERVATION where I can still edit . But is it a problem ?

I actually went thru my last few pages of comments - the word has been used a very low percentage of time - just a few times ... so hardly "lots "

immibis• 11 months ago

What did Hamas do recently? I haven't heard of what they did since Oct 7 2023.

jpster3• 12 months ago

From the article: “more than 180 Palestinian journalists were killed in 22 months of war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.”

This seems awfully intentional.

jokoon2• 12 months ago

I remember reading that a majority of those "journalists" worked for hamas or were friendly towards hamas.

Aljazeera is hardly neutral on this conflict either.

King-Aaron2• 12 months ago

Bearing in mind that you are also not immune to propaganda, and once a reporter or whoever else has been forcibly disassembled it's easy for the aggressor to say what they want about them.

The Israelis have been demonstrably dishonest about this conflict so I'd take anything they release about their war crimes with a grain of salt.

jpster3• 12 months ago

Should journalists who are friendly towards Israel be killed for that reason? I personally do not think so, so I’m surprised that you seem to be introducing that as a justification.

NomDePlum3• 11 months ago

Everything I have read points to that being propaganda, to try and excuse a genocide.

What is indisputable is that Israel has deliberately killed 10's of thousands of civilians, possibly 100's of thousands and has persecuted millions of Palestinians.

Care to share specifics on your Al Jazeera claims?

myth_drannon2• 11 months ago

It's interesting how the BBC and other left media are reacting to the elimination of those Hamas members. When Ukrainians eleminate and assassinate Russian journalists there is little or no reaction, sometime some small celebrations. Mind you that Russian journalists act mostly as propagandists, while the one ones that Israel eliminated are members of Hamas military wing. In case of Gazan journalist Anus that Israel tore him up yesterday, there are videos of him jumping on the head of an Israeli murdered on Oct 7th.

grimblee• 11 months ago

You forgot to mention the 70 years of persecution leading up to october 7, anyone living under aparteid, seeing his/her familly suffer, can make bad decisions and ressort to violence. This does not change the fact the origin of said violence is Israel's colonisation and persrcution of the Palestinians.

CLPadvocate2• 11 months ago

And you forgot the 1300 years of Arab colonisation of Judea and Samaria, including mass slaughtering of Jews on multiple occasions?

asdefghyk6• 11 months ago

Anas Al-Sharif conveniently ignored Gazans’ protests against Hamas throughout the war.

cholantesh3• 11 months ago

Repeatedly and deliberately misspelling his name suggests to me that there aren't any such videos.

asdefghyk6• 11 months ago

The reality is no one knows what is propaganda and what is not.

asdefghyk6• 11 months ago

How many of the Palestine journalists reported on Gazans’ protests against Hamas throughout the war?

Anas Al-Sharif conveniently ignored Gazans’ protests against Hamas throughout the war. Courage, apparently, applies only to reporting what Hamas wants the world to hear.

DiogenesKynikos• 11 months ago

A journalist is murdered (deliberately, by the admission of the perpetrators) by an army that is carrying out a genocidal war against a civilian population, and this is your response? "But why didn't he report on XYZ?"

Reporters killed and foreigners barred in Israel's battle for Gaza narrative

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