Breaking down misleading narratives in Australian mainstream media Fact-checker | MENA Researcher
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News outlets across the globe are reporting on Gaza, with 70,000 tents flooded due to Israel blocking reconstruction aid. Australian media is silent.
Concealing why Australians protest Israel helps efforts to smear Palestine solidarity as antisemitic & curb our right to protest.
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Dockworkers worldwide took action over the weekend to disrupt arms shipments to Israel. This is the power of collective action.
It is therefore unsurprising that not a single Australian mainstream media outlet has covered the story.
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Vic Liberal Leader Jess Wilson claims 'Globalise the Intifada' incites violence against Jews & must be banned.
But even The Australian uses intifada in correct context: an uprising against Israeli violence. Such bans conflate calls for Palestinian liberation with hatred of Jews.
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How to obscure Israel’s illegal military occupation:
- Omit the perpetrators are Israeli
- Omit the West Bank is occupied
- Include "Israel says" to sanitise its violence
- Use "both sides" and "clashes" to falsely equate Israeli attackers and Palestinians defending themselves
The past 48 hours perfectly reflect how Australian mainstream media is complicit in Israel’s genocide. It remains silent on Israel’s heinous crimes while smearing and targeting those who dare to speak the truth and hold Israel to account.
It's been 48 hours since this absolutely horrific story broke and no Australian mainstream media outlet has covered it.
In that time, OnePath Network, an Australian Islamic media company that did cover the story, has had its government funding cut over its criticism of Israel.
Another story illustrative of Israel's apartheid regime ignored by Australian media.
Israel has shut down the occupied West Bank for the Jewish holiday Sukkot. As a result, 3.4 million Palestinians face even tighter movement restrictions because they are Palestinian, not Jewish.
No. Consistent with past Australian government calls for a two-state solution, Wong put the onus on Hamas and PA reform.
Without action targeting Israel's decades-long, brutal and illegal military occupation of the Palestinian territories, these calls are merely performative.
Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Penny Wong posted about Australia's "commitment" to a two-state solution.
Did Senator Wong propose any measures to support that commitment by ending Israel's illegal occupation and dismantling the structures that entrench it in the West Bank?
UN OCHA updated its map of the occupied West Bank, which is part of the Palestinian state proposed by world leaders under a two-state solution.
Blue circle=Israeli settler attacks. Pink=illegal Israeli settlements. Red X=Israeli checkpoints. Blue=areas under full Israeli control
How to shield Israel from accountability:
- Don't name it as the perpetrator
- Centre the location of the aid, not who is blocking it
- Dehumanise Palestinians by erasing the children at the centre of the story
Mainstream media: Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour after stadium owner Robert Kraft raised concerns about "antisemitism".
What the media leaves out: Robert Kraft is an ardent supporter of Israel who has funded efforts to combat the "delegitimisation" of Israel.
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In the Listen episode, the ABC discusses ethnic cleansing through the lens of settler violence, without examining the Israeli state’s role in cleansing Palestinians from their land, as shown in previous slides. This creates a narrative that shields Israel from accountability.
Israeli forces bulldozed Palestinian community of Khirbet al-Taban, claiming it as an Israeli military zone and destroying every home.
Israel has expelled 66 Palestinian communities across the West Bank since Oct 2023, forcibly displacing a further 4,931 Palestinians (B’Tselem). nitter.gq/MssingContext/status/2…
Israel continues to prevent more than 33,000 Palestinians from returning to their homes, after it expelled three refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank 18 months ago. Israel used airstrikes, bulldozers and controlled detonations to “render the camps uninhabitable” (UN). nitter.gq/MssingContext/status/2…
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Israeli forces demolish a Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem for lacking an Israeli-issued building permit, which are almost impossible to obtain.
5,235 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced by Israeli demolitions for lack of permits between 2023 and July 2026 (UNOCHA).
You only have to look at recent stories from the occupied West Bank to know that there’s no need for scare quotes in this headline.
These stories, all of which the Australian media ignored, reflect the various methods used by Israel to expel Palestinians from their land ➡ nitter.gq/MssingContext/status/2…
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Imagine what these headlines would look like if Iran bombed a US or Israeli wedding, killing five and wounding more than 60. These deaths would be the lead, not buried beneath another round of tired military framing.
The US and Israel have killed thousands of Iranian civilians over the past six months, including hundreds of children. But you wouldn't know it from Australian headlines like these.
