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Even Israeli media says the apartheid state is to blame for ‘endless war’ and ceasefire breakdown

The muzzled Western media fears calling out what Israel has been doing in occupied Palestine during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But surprisingly, one Israeli media outlet doesn’t. Haaretz has consistently put its Western counterparts to shame by actually *doing journalism*. And this week in particular, it has been holding the apartheid state’s war-criminal government to account in ways the British or US media would never dream to.

‘Israel derailed the ceasefire process with US support and no justification’

Israel has just unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire, killing hundreds of people in the process – including at least 183 children. And Haaretz emphasised on 19 March that this had been purely Israel’s decision. Hamas was not responsible for the breakdown of the ceasefire or hostage exchange process. The settler-colonial power itself was to blame. Its editorial insisted that:

Israel, Not Hamas, Is Derailing the Gaza Cease-fire and Preventing the Hostages

Another piece stressed:

There Is No Justification at All for Israel to Resume the War in Gaza

On 18 March, another article highlighted that war-criminal prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was clearly restarting the murderous offensive on the occupied Palestinian territory for political purposes. Its headline read:

Israel’s Renewed Gaza Offensive Exposes Netanyahu’s Real Goal: Political Survival Through Endless War

The piece stressed that:

Israel knowingly violated the cease-fire agreement with Hamas – with American approval – because it didn’t want to fully meet the terms it had committed to two months ago.

Haaretz also reported on the people in Israel refusing to serve in Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign of “endless war”. It described how thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to oppose the war-criminal PM’s power grab and obliteration of the ceasefire. And it called him out for his continuing “cheapening of the term antisemitism” and warm embrace of the global far right.

In short, Haaretz cut through the Israeli state propaganda that the Western media feels it has to copy and paste to serve the settler-colonial cause, to keep funds flowing, or to avoid cynical smears. And it did so not by being radical, but by just doing its job – trying to tell the truth.

We need a media revolution

Academic Assal Rad is one voice that has been calling out the Western media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. And she highlighted the gulf between the coverage in Haaretz and the mainstream media elsewhere:

The Canary also documents as often as possible the propaganda of the dominant corporate media in Britain and elsewhere. We started reporting ten years ago this year precisely to fight back against this system. And we have been horrified to see its vile complicity with genocide in the last two years.

If you want to join the ongoing media revolution alongside us and our independent media friends in the UK, please keep sharing our work as far and wide as you possibly can. The revolution belongs to all of us who believe in compassion and humanity, and we all have a role to play in bringing those principles to the heart of British media.

Featured image via the Canary

By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.