DONT SAY PALESTINE

Vital Omar El Akkad Superb Raja Shehadeh Poignant Yanis Varoufakis If you re not writing the truth about crimes against humanity you re culpable in them Human rights activist and Middle East scholar Assal Rad is known online as the headline fixer with a special focus on exposing double standards in Western media especially about Palestine Israelis are described as children and civilians while Palestinians are people under 18 and collateral damage Israelis are killed Palestinians die Even in the wake of the ceasefire major Western media continually obfuscates Israeli violence in Palestine This pattern of dehumanizing language Don t Say Palestine reveals has been so consistent throughout the Palestinian genocide that it amounts to a policy Over the past three years headlines in outlets from CNN to Reuters to the New York Times have consistently downplayed Israeli responsibility othered Palestinians and called into question inviolable tenets of international law like the sanctity of hospitals and journalists in warzones Highlighting the linguistic moves and framing devices at play and surfacing stories Western media decided not to report Rad maps with devastating clarity mainstream media s instrumental role in sani