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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Is Israel going to bomb U.S. universities too?
URL: https://twitter.com/SuppressedNws/status/1786121965163388976
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Israel’s Ambassador to UN: “We always knew that Khamas hides in schools we just didn’t realize that it’s not only schools in Gaza it’s also Harvard, Columbia and many elite universities” video clip at link "GAZA, Wednesday, October 11, 2023 (WAFA) - Israeli occupation warplanes Wednesday bombed the Islamic University in Gaza City, according to sources. WAFA correspondent said that the violent occupation airstrikes completely destroyed buildings at the Islamic University, adding that no one could enter them due to the burning fires and the scattering of stones and rubble in the surrounding roads." https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/138133 |
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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Israeli media’s inevitable hysteria over U.S. campus protests
URL: https://www.972mag.com/israeli-media-us-campus-protests-palestine/
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Journalists reports outside a protest encampment for Palestine at Columbia University, New York, April 23, 2024. (Pamela Drew/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED) Israeli media’s inevitable hysteria over U.S. campus protests "The media’s unbending self-censorship in covering Gaza has made Israelis incapable of seeing foreign criticism as anything other than antisemitism. By Anat Saragusti April 29, 2024 It’s been a long time since we’ve seen news coverage as shallow as the Israeli media’s coverage of the pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses across the United States in recent days. In a segment that aired on April 24, for example, Channel 12’s Yuna Leibzon showed footage of the protests outside Columbia University’s campus: viewers saw a handful of people chanting that Tel Aviv should be burned to the ground, and a lone masked protester holding a sign bearing an antisemitic statement. The implication was clear: these individuals are representative of all the protesters, and the entire pro-Palestine movement is illegitimate. Neria Kraus, Channel 13’s correspondent in New York, also reported from Columbia’s campus. In her coverage, she used three terms interchangeably: “pro-Palestinian demonstrations,” “anti-Israel demonstrations,” and “antisemitic demonstrations.” The message, again, was clear: to be pro- Palestinian or anti-Israel is to be antisemitic. When Gil Tamri, a senior commentator at Channel 13, went on to explain to presenter Udi Segal that these were not antisemitic demonstrations but anti- Israel demonstrations, Tamri was cut off mid-sentence and Segal moved on to talk about Congress’ approval of a package of U.S. military aid to Israel. On Raviv Drucker’s daily talk show “War Zone,” also on Channel 13, Professor Rivka Carmi, the former president of Ben-Gurion University, also framed the protests as “antisemitic” — again, without providing any context. The conflation of these distinct concepts creates a sense among Israelis that Jews are being widely persecuted in New York City. It suggests that the Israeli news correspondents standing at the entrance of the Manhattan campus are on an information-gathering mission of national importance, reporting from behind enemy lines and peering into the depraved core of anti-Jewish hate. A protest encampment for Palestine at Columbia University, New York, April 23, 2024. (Pamela Drew/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED) A protest encampment for Palestine at Columbia University, New York, April 23, 2024. (Pamela Drew/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED) This is the same media ecosystem that, for nearly seven months, has utterly neglected its most basic duty to show viewers, listeners, and readers in Israel what their military is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. Only those Israelis who choose to consume foreign media understand that the student-led protests are indicative of a huge and rapidly proliferating wave of demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel and Israeli policy in Gaza, not an inexplicable outburst of antisemitism. These two trends — the Israeli media’s unbending self-censorship in its coverage of the devastation in Gaza, and its framing of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the U.S. as antisemitic — are closely linked. Simply put, those who are not aware of what Israel is doing in Gaza cannot understand the reaction of those who are. With the exception of Haaretz readers, and a small number of others who engage with niche independent news sites, the vast majority of Israelis would have no way of seeing what Israel has done to Gaza over the past six and a half months unless they deliberately went out of their way to do so. They are not shown the dead children or the thousands of orphans; they are not shown the bodies pulled out from under the rubble; and they are not shown the hunger or the desperation for medicine and water. Israelis only see what the army wants us to see and what will not dampen national morale. Indeed, most of us are preoccupied with the massacre of October 7 and the 133 hostages who are still languishing in Gaza, and this focus comes at the expense of devoting any attention to the ongoing catastrophe against Palestinians. The world sees that catastrophe. The world sees what we are not shown. And as images from Gaza appear night after night on news outlets all over the world, anger builds and protests against Israel and its onslaught erupt. This rage is justified. It is legitimate to ask why so many children have been killed. It is legitimate to demand an end to the war. It is legitimate to call for an end to the occupation and freedom for Palestinians. Palestinian students at An-Najah National University in Nablus, occupied West Bank, protest in solidarity with the student movement at universities in the United States and in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, April 28, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) Palestinian students at An-Najah National University in Nablus, occupied West Bank, protest in solidarity with the student movement at universities in the United States and in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, April 28, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) Israeli journalism’s exclusive focus on October 7 has effectively decontextualized that day, as well as Israel’s ensuing onslaught. Internationally, however, those same events have put the context of the Palestinian struggle — occupation, siege, and Nakba — back on the world stage. The world sees Israel wreaking destruction across Gaza, an effort led by an array of far-right, messianic, annexationist ministers who are now calling to resettle the Strip. This is the context within which these demonstrations are spreading on American college campuses. We can look away and say, well, Bezalel Smotrich is not the State of Israel. But he is. And so is Itamar Ben Gvir, and so is Orit Strook, and so is Benjamin Netanyahu. What’s startling is that every one of the demands and slogans voiced at the college encampments has been expressed in Israel for decades — in protest chants on the streets, op-eds, academic studies, debates, and endless panel discussions broadcast on television and radio. None of the students’ arguments are new to the Israeli discourse. Even explicit criticism of Zionism has existed on the radical Jewish left, alongside Palestinian citizens, for most of the state’s existence. Most read on +972 Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza Israeli soldiers from the 8717 Battalion of the Givati Brigade operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Why human agency is still central to Israel’s AI-powered warfare A protest encampment for Palestine at Columbia University, New York, April 23, 2024. (Pamela Drew/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED) Campus protests for Gaza are proliferating — and so is the repression Of course, there are a handful of extremists on the fringes of the college demonstrations, many of whom — including those calling to burn Tel Aviv to the ground — are outsiders trying to latch on to the student protests (in Israel, too, we often hear violent and eliminationist slogans like “Death to Arabs” and “May your village burn” at right-wing demonstrations, or even just at soccer games). But smearing the student demonstrations on U.S. campuses as one big frenzy of antisemitism is unserious journalism. Serious journalism would provide the context, which the Israeli media has failed to do since October 7 — and, it must be said, a long time before that. This article was first published in Hebrew on The Seventh Eye. Read it here. October 2023 war Israeli media Gaza United States Palestinian solidarity campus activism Anat Saragusti is a journalist, filmmaker, book editor, and is in charge of press freedom at the Union of Journalists in Israel. Our team has been devastated by the horrific events of this latest war. The world is reeling from Israel’s unprecedented onslaught on Gaza, inflicting mass devastation and death upon besieged Palestinians, as well as the atrocious attack and kidnappings by Hamas in Israel on October 7. Our hearts are with all the people and communities facing this violence. We are in an extraordinarily dangerous era in Israel-Palestine. The bloodshed has reached extreme levels of brutality and threatens to engulf the entire region. Emboldened settlers in the West Bank, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to intensify their attacks on Palestinians. The most far-right government in Israel’s history is ramping up its policing of dissent, using the cover of war to silence Palestinian citizens and left-wing Jews who object to its policies. This escalation has a very clear context, one that +972 has spent the past 14 years covering: Israeli society’s growing racism and militarism, entrenched occupation and apartheid, and a normalized siege on Gaza. We are well positioned to cover this perilous moment – but we need your help to do it. This terrible period will challenge the humanity of all of those working for a better future in this land. Palestinians and Israelis are already organizing and strategizing to put up the fight of their lives. Can we count on your support ? +972 Magazine is a leading media voice of this movement, a desperately needed platform where Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists, and thinkers can report on and analyze what is happening, guided by humanism, equality, and justice. Join us. BECOME A +972 MEMBER TODAY More About October 2023 war |
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