Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West
On December 5, 2024, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124-page report titled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War,” which the Israeli newspaper Haaretz called “the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew… of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.”
The report contains 1,400 footnotes including “eyewitness reports, video footage, articles, photographs, eyewitness evidence and [other] investigatory material, much of it recorded by Israeli soldiers.” After combing through this vast library of documentation, Mordechai, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former fellow at Princeton University, concluded: “The enormous amount of evidence I have seen… has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza.”
On the day of the report’s release, Amnesty International also concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
One section in Mordechai’s report, titled “The media, propaganda, and the war,” draws attention to the role of Canadian media in enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “Following a pattern from earlier wars in Gaza,” Mordechai writes, “the current war has been enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse in Israel as well as in the West—in countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany.”
Mordechai draws attention to the CBC, specifically an anonymous essay by a former CBC producer published by The Breach earlier this year. As Mordechai explains:
A former media worker in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recounted how any reporting on Palestine faced major difficulties, including the cancellation of interviews, allowing the repetition of verifiably false pro-Israel claims on air, refusing to have discussions about difficult issues from Israel’s perspective (e.g. whether a genocide might be happening), not providing key context to current events (e.g. the situation pre-Oct. 7), editing out controversial material (e.g. references to genocide and starvation), adding disclaimers about the un-verifiable nature of even personal statements (e.g. the deaths of interviewees’ extended family members), removal of names and contact information of Palestinian speakers from internal databases, and ignoring genocidal statements by Israeli officials. (more...)
Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes
1/ I am an historian and Israeli citizen. Over the past year I have been writing publicly about events in Gaza during the war, while collecting and documenting thousands of pieces of evidence and dozens of reports.
— Lee Mordechai (@LeeMordechai) December 5, 2024
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