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“Large sections of the media repeated the lies promoted by Israeli and British politicians. Some produced fresh lies of their own. They twisted their reports in favour of the Israeli cause. For a long time, reports of Israeli atrocities appeared either in muted form or not at all. Hamas atrocities were exaggerated or fabricated. Dissident voices were suppressed. Across much of the media spectrum a general implicit consensus emerged: Israelis count and Palestinians don't.”
Peter Oborne, Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza

Mohammed El-Kurd
“The thief holds a gavel; the liar holds a journalism degree; and the butcher's knives are publicly funded.”
Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

Rashid Khalidi
“Eqbal Ahmad summed it up: "August 1947 marked the beginning of decolonisation, when British rule in India ended. It was in those days of hope and fulfilment that the colonisation of Palestine occurred. Thus at the dawn of decolonisation, we were returned to the earliest, most intense form of colonial menace... exclusivist settler colonialism." In other circumstances or in another era, replacing the indigenous population might have been feasible, especially in light of the long-standing and deep religious link felt by the Jews to the land in question—if this were the eighteenth or nineteenth century, if the Palestinians were as few as the Zionist settlers or as fully decimated as the native peoples of Australasia and North America. The longevity of the Palestinians' resistance to their dispossession, however, indicates that the Zionist movement, in the words of the late historian Tony Judt, "arrived too late," as it "imported a characteristically late-nineteenth-century separatist project into a world that has moved on.”
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

“Indeed it has been painfully clear since October 2023 that those dominating the national conversation on Gaza lack the knowledge to scrutinise Israeli claims. British TV and radio studios are chock full of loudmouth presenters with big salaries but negligible understanding. Experts who have mastered the history of the Israel-Palestine dispute tend to be excluded from public discussion.”
Peter Oborne, Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza

“Reporters know that, when it comes to Israel, any mistake or wrong word will trigger complaints to their bosses and might cost them their job. Reporters or presenters who cast Israel in a poor light get targeted. The popular LBC presenter Sangita Myska abruptly left the channel after she challenged an Israeli government spokesman, Avi Hyman. There's been speculation that she was sacked as a result of that exchange, although that has been denied by LBC; Myska herself is bound by a non-disclosure agreement.”
Peter Oborne, Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza

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