Exacting in her words, her history & grace. Please watch this clip of @susanabulhawa from @OxfordUnion debate.
This speech is one of the most chilling & moving in their 200 year history.
The opposition behaved as genocidal louts do.
FULL 👉https://t.co/ofKxiafy7D
😲 An Israeli soldier is boasting and laughing because he has killed a 12-year-old Palestinian girl
“We are looking for babies but there is no babies left, I killed a girl that was 12, but we’re looking for babies”
@trackingisrael@pal_legal
In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.
As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.
For example:
1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.
2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.
3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".
4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?
5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.
6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.
7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.
It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.
I used to support The UK Labour Party.
I defended them, argued for them, voted for them.
I would now like to see the entire party and its associated media boosters in the dock at The Hague.
Tomorrow's front page of @ScotNational.
We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.
60 years ago today, Malcolm X went to Gaza. He visited Khan Younis refugee camp, dined with religious leaders and met poet Harun Hashem Rashid.
My piece from earlier this year takes a look at Malcolm X's visit and his views on Israeli occupation: https://t.co/BdU7CakDWE
what is it about FB marketplace that makes men in their 50s/60s think they are entitled to harass me?! literally sick of being a woman, you can’t even fucking sell your clothes without men taking it as an opportunity to be sexual/ vile arghhhhhhhhhhh
A white man stabbed some kid and a woman in Leicester Square today, an Asian security guard disarmed him and stopped him from attacking anyone else.
I’ll let you work out why it isn’t trending