What does U.S. press coverage look like in a time of genocide? Our writers contextualize reported events and expose journalistic (mal)practices & how biases, no matter how subtle, manipulate readers' perceptions and understanding of the situation in Gaza.
palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656607 “The Al Ahli Arab Hospital did not randomly combust; it was struck by the Israeli Air Force, which they confirmed and later retracted. The reporter uses passive and ambiguous language to decenter Israel's genocidal actions,” writes Farah Hamouda. palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656602

The Israeli occupation’s practice of withholding the bodies of Palestinian martyrs extends decades. This widespread “policy” is part of a larger strategic plan to control the lives of Palestinians, the living as well as the dead, and to deter them from resisting the occupation.

Continue reading about Israel's historical and current actions to withhold bodies and refuse proper burial to martyrs in Gaza: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656276 “This policy of retaining bodies appears at first to intend to punish the families of martyrs, but is in reality a complex colonialist policy aimed at destroying the social norms and values of a society. It can be regarded as yet another colonialist stratagem like collective punishment and administrative detention.”

Hamdan Taha's article in the new issue of Jerusalem Quarterly details the cultural and heritage sites deliberately destroyed by Israel since October 2023 (thread)🧵⤵️ palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656039
Gaza Municipality concluded that the occupation forces targeted Gaza's main cultural landmarks that represent its collective identity: historic buildings, mosques, churches, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and municipal infrastructure.

"The political question of moment is why, rather than fundamentally altering the Western view of Israel, the events of the summer of 1982 have been accommodated in all but a few places in the public realm to the view that prevailed before those events: [...]"🧵 "that since Israel is in effect a civilized, democratic country constitutively incapable of barbaric practices against Palestinians and other non-Jews, its invasion of Lebanon was ipso facto justified."
'Permission to Narrate', Journal of Palestine Studies 🧵
palestine-studies.org/en/node/38869

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have evoked the horror of the 1982 Israeli invasion and siege of Beirut, as well as the 2006 War which killed an estimated 1,200 Lebanese civilians (a third of them children). 🧵 The current attacks also resemble the Dahiya Doctrine Israel used in 2006 to level civilian infrastructure. Scroll to read a brief selection of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanese territory from Oct, 7, 2023 to Mar. 28, 2024, gathered from the #PalestineChronology.🧵

We have compiled and made accessible a reading list of 15 articles from the Journal of Palestine Studies providing historical context and analysis on nearly two decades of Israeli incursions, siege, and blockade on Gaza. Read 🧶⬇️: tandfonline.com/journals/rpal2… This paper by Sara Roy describes the reasons for the lack of development inside Gaza's economic sector, despite increased levels economic output achieved since 1967. (Article published in 1987)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.230…

We have made public documents from the secret appendix to the report of the Commission of Inquiry, headed by former Israeli Supreme Court president Yitzhak Kahan, which was created to investigate the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. [All downloadable]
palestine-studies.org/en/node/232060 This includes transcripts of meetings between senior Israeli officials and LF leaders in January 1982 that include discussions about “cleaning out the [Palestinian] refugee camps,” and the need for “several D[e]ir Yassins.”

Are U.S. Newspapers Biased Against Palestinians? Analysis of A Hundred Thousand Headlines Says Yes: based on a sentiment analysis of headlines spanning 50 years in 5 newspapers dating back to '67: bit.ly/2C7TJeK
@nytimes @washingtonpost @WJS @chicagotribune @LATimes Headlines were divided into two groups: one of #Palestinian-centric headlines, and another of #Israeli-centric headlines:
Since 1967, use of the word “occupation” has declined by 85% in the Israeli group of headlines, and by 65% in the Palestinian one;