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One short news segment shows how easy it is to report properly on Israel’s genocidal crimes

A news segment from Spanish TV channel LaSexta has shown just how easy it is to break away from the kind of pro-Israel propaganda that the British media establishment has forced us to consume for the last 20 months of genocide.

‘The cynicism of genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu’

On 19 June, journalist Cristina Saavedra was reporting on the ongoing Israeli conflict with Iran following the apartheid state’s unprovoked attack on Iran last week. In particular, she was speaking about war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction to a hospital near an Israeli military site receiving some damage. Netanyahu had called this ‘terrorism’. But as Saavedra highlighted in simple terms, this was:

the same thing he does in Gaza.

That is, of course, an understatement. Because as the Canary reported this week, Israeli occupation forces have systematically attacked hospitals for 20 months in what some have called “medelacide“. They’ve not only brought Gaza’s health system “to the brink of total collapse” by turning hospitals into “a death trap” with hundreds of attacks that have damaged or destroyed “at least 94% of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip”. They’ve also abducted and tortured doctors, killed around 1,400 healthcare workers, and intentionally destroyed medical equipment. And they’ve done so with no verifiable justification. They didn’t just do it in Gaza either. They did it in Lebanon as too, and now threaten to do so in Iran.

Saavedra then quoted Israel’s war-criminal ‘defence’ minister Israel Katz calling the damage to the Israeli hospital and elsewhere as “war crimes”. And she pointed to a screen showing the suffering in Gaza, saying:

And what’s this? 94% of Gaza’s hospitals have been destroyed or damaged. Netanyahu has attacked more than 70% of schools. Refugee camps. Mass graves. He is starving Gazans to death. He murders them while they queue for a bit of food.

Are these not war crimes? Well of course they are. But that is the cynicism of genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu.

Anyone not pointing this out is a propagandist. Pure and simple.

In this short news segment alone, Saavedra put most British establishment journalists to shame. She didn’t even list all of Israel’s many crimes from its genocide in Gaza or from its brutal, decades-long occupation of Palestine. But she provided clear, concise, and necessary context. And no responsible journalist should avoid doing so when the evidence is there for all to see.

That’s why we shouldn’t even refer to Britain’s mainstream media as journalism. Because as a damning report suggested this week, the pro-Israel bias of coverage from outlets like the BBC is so overt and consistent that it’s impossible to call it anything other than propaganda.

Featured image via The Canary

By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.