Even for those of us who have watched the lack of ethics at the New York Times over the last few years, their devolution into a propaganda arm of the genocidal Israeli regime is still alarming, if not terribly surprising.
And the NYT's means for getting its October 7 expose is just more evidence of that.
Paper of record.
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
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Israeli soldiers have photographed themselves posing with the lingerie of Palestinian women they have displaced or killed in Gaza. They join a long line of conquest images, from Abu Ghraib images to the spectacle of Jim Crow-era lynchings.
Israeli tank drivers have decided it would be a good idea to blast Palestinians who were queuing for food in Rafah, killing at least 104 civilians and injuring 700 more.
Please rest assured that when we report this on BBC News, we will resort to our expert use of the passive voice. We will clarify we have no idea who the killers are and the victims spontaneously exploded with no obvious cause. We will definitely not use words like “slaughter” and “massacre” because those words are reserved for countries we don’t like.
#UNRWAFeedsRefugeesFromIsraeliGenocide #JudithMillerIDFEmbeddedMoment #Gaza
1.5 million occupied people have been subjected to incessant bombing for 5 months. They've been dehydrated & starving with famine now looming. Today the IDF kills over 100 during food aid collection & then accuses them of looting.
This slaughter has to stop.
As over 100 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces while gathering for food aid in Gaza City, we speak to Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who in November became the second of only five U.S. senators to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. In January, he traveled to the Rafah border crossing in Egypt to witness the system of humanitarian aid deliveries, which he described on the Senate floor as a “complicated, bizarre inspection process.” Merkley is now calling for the U.S. to bypass Israel in order to directly send aid to Gaza. Because of the United States’ relationship to Israel — “more closely tied than any situation in the world” — Merkley says, “It’s the United States that has leverage to address this situation, and the world expects us to take the lead.”
"My life in northern Gaza since October 7 has been one unending nightmare. Fear, anxiety, hunger, thirst, and cold have become my daily companions. I am unable to comprehend the gravity of our situation, nor come to terms with the losses. Our lives here cannot be understood or explained in any rational way.
"Nearly 150 days of brutal war have deprived me of everything I had. Literally, I’ve lost it all — not only my home and belongings, but also my identity, my spirit, my mind, my dreams, my aspirations. And it has forever changed me. It made me selfish, only thinking about my own family’s survival. It made me resentful of the Arab and Muslim world, whose silence seems to signal obliviousness to our plight."
Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance #MEAA International Day of Solidarity with #Palestine Journalists for Monday Feb 26th saying that since October, over 100 journalists have been killed in #Gaza. This is 10% of the workforce killed in an unprecedented attack on press freedom it said. The #ASU Australian Services Union members in community legal centre sector walked out on Thursday 22nd of February to the Victorian Council of Social Services.
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/asu-workers-take-unprotected-action
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance the MEAA called for the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Journalists for Monday Feb 26th saying that since October, over 100 journalists have been killed in Gaza. This is 10% of the workforce killed in an unprecedented attack on press freedom it said. The ASU the Australian Services Union members in the community legal centre sector took the issue a step further calling for a walk out on Thursday 22nd of February.
In Gaza City, at least 104 Palestinian refugees were killed Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd waiting for food aid. “This isn’t the first time people have been shot at by Israeli forces while people have been trying to access food,” says the U.N.'s special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, who accuses Israel of the war crime of intentional starvation. This comes as reports grow of Palestinians resorting to animal feed and cactus leaves for sustenance and as experts warn of imminent agricultural collapse. “Every single person in Gaza is hungry,” says Fakhri, who emphasizes that famine in the modern context is a human-made catastrophe. “At this point I'm running out of words to be able to describe the horror of what’s happening and how vile the actions have been by Israel against the Palestinian civilians.”
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