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Jun 9
I think that the events of a genocide, when you're actually seeing it from on the ground and not only just the Palestinian journalists, but our independent and malternative media in this country did a fantastic job poking through and debunking the Israeli talking points, correcting the record, exposing the media's constructed stories. So those kinds of things contributed to this public opinion. But before October 7th, do you think-- 10,000 people were killed in the ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’ in the first quarter from 2021 to 2022. 2021 to 2022, 10,000 people were killed. Nine out of 10 of those people were Palestinians, not Israelis. That right there… Just the numbers speak to the way in which this is well documented before October 7th. That Israel had been committing war crimes such that human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch had identified numerous times which they said should be investigated and brought before the ICC for war crimes and that was the Great March of Return in 2018, when peaceful demonstrators were at the wall, Israeli snipers shot down at them and injured 33,000 people.

Robin Anderson joins This Is Hell! to talk about her her new book “The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage Of Israel’s Genocide In Gaza” published by OR Books.

Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University and an award-winning author of a dozen single- and co-authored books. Her work examines film, television, and media coverage of war, the environment, politics, and elections. She edits the Routledge Focus Book Series on Media and Humanitarian Action, serves as a Project Censored Judge, and contributes to the annual State of the Free Press. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of... read more

 


Episode 1911
Jun 9

US Media’s Complicity In The Gaza Genocide / Robin Andersen

Episode 1910
May 27

We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil

Episode 1909
May 26

Immigration Detention Expansion During Trump’s Second Term / Nayna Gupta & Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Episode 1908
May 20

The Politics of Police Reform in Minneapolis / Michelle Phelps

Episode 1907
May 19

How Money Dominates Human Lives Everywhere / Arjun Jayadev

Episode 1906
May 13

Another Bag of Mail / Chuck Mertz & the World's Best Audience

Episode 1905
May 12

How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling

Episode 1904
May 6

The Death of Asylum / Tanvi Misra

Episode 1903
May 5

Reshaping War For The 21st Century / Shana Marshall

Episode 1902
Apr 29

Internationalism from Below / Leila Al-Shami & Benjamin