One News interviewed a Gaza journalist who has called out the western media for its complicity in genocide.
FOR SOME fifteen months, the western media have framed Israel's genocidal rampage in Gaza as a legitimate war. Pretending to provide an objective and impartial view of 'the Gaza War', the western media has failed to report on the atrocities that the Israel has committed in Gaza. The true face of Israel's genocidal assault has been hidden behind the western media's determination to sanitise genocide.
Even the deliberate targeting of journalists by the IDF, a war crime, has not moved the western media to take action. Over 200 journalist have been killed in Gaza and the western media has remained silent.
The New Zealand media also has nothing to be proud of in its coverage of events in Gaza. It, too, has consistently framed Israel's genocidal rampage as a legitimate war and swept Israel's war crimes under the carpet. Some news outlets, like Newstalk ZB, have gone as far as to defend Israel's actions.
With the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, One News, for the first time since Israel began its murderous assault, chose to talk live to a Palestinian journalist in Gaza. That journalist was twenty -two-year-old Abubaker Abed.
While One News introduced him as a reporter for the Associated Press, most of Abed's reports have been for Palestinian news outlets like The Electronic Intifida.
Two days ago, Abed made a speech condemning the western media's complicity in genocide. While the speech has been widely circulated in the social media, it has been ignored by the western media. In New Zealand, the speech has failed to make it to the One News website.
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