More than a million Palestinians have been crammed into the city of Rafah -  which is being bombed by Israel with the imminent threat of a ground invasion. Western media, however, has once again failed to communicate the severity of this moment.

Contributors:
Laura Albast - Media Analyst, Institute for Palestine Studies-USA
Nabih Bulos - Middle East Bureau Chief, LA Times
Adel Iskandar - Professor of Global Communication, Simon Fraser University
Jacob Magid - US Bureau Chief, The Times of Israel

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Haaretz newspaper published an article about Israeli soldiers cooking food in Palestinian homes– the same homes these soldiers chased them out of, all while Palestinians themselves are being starved by Israel. Nic Muirhead on the mocking of Palestinian suffering.


The Kremlin’s youth militarisation push

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has invested considerably in managing domestic perceptions of the war - including among younger citizens.

With the war dragging on, the government’s youth propaganda has escalated. Educational institutions have become part of an orchestrated effort to shape loyal militarised nationalists and passive media consumers.

Contributors:
Alexander Borodikhin - Editor, Mediazona
Ekaterina Kotrikadze - Anchor, TV Rain
Ian Garner - Professor, Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy

This past week’s elections in Pakistan were meant to be a formality, the outcome - a win for the PMLN - predetermined by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus.

But despite their attempt to manage the narrative and meddle with politics, former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party, the PTI, had an unexpected pull with the people.

Contributors:

Amber Shamsi - Director, Centre for Excellence in Journalism
Asma Shirazi - Anchor, HUM News
Fahd Husain - President, AIK News
Moeed Pirzada - Journalist and YouTuber

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Two weeks after the International Court of Justice concluded Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza, Israeli soldiers continue to film and upload evidence of their own war crimes. Tariq Nafi examines the material being posted online.

John Kirby: US messenger on the Gaza War

For Israel’s primary backer in its war on Gaza, the United States, getting the messaging right has not been easy. The face of the White House’s policy is US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.

Despite some uncomfortable exchanges with reporters, Kirby has maintained an aggressive approach in his delivery. Whether audiences are buying it is another matter.

Meenakshi Ravi explores the figure of the spokesperson and the challenges of being President Biden’s messenger on Gaza.

Featuring:
John Nichols - National affairs correspondent, The Nation
Kristian Denny - Associate professor, Columbia University
Prem Thakker - Politics reporter, The Intercept

Israeli intelligence accuses a UN refugee agency of collusion with Hamas – and the media take it at face value.
Israel has for years been claiming that the United Nations refugee agency (UNRWA) is in cahoots with Hamas. The latest allegations – which coincided with the International Court of Justice’s order for Israel to prevent genocide – bear the hallmarks of a distraction tactic. So far, the media have taken the bait.

Contributors:
Diana Buttu – Palestinian lawyer
Tal Mimran – Former Israeli government adviser
Abdaljawad Omar – Academic, Birzeit University
Kenneth Roth – Former executive director, Human Rights Watch

On our radar
Last month, a New York Times investigation carried Israeli allegations of sexual violence by Hamas during its October 7 attacks. Meenakshi Ravi explains why that story is being called into question.

Germany’s ‘Palestine exception’ to free speech
Historical guilt and the stifling of pro-Palestinian dissent in Germany.

Contributors:
Hebh Jamal – Palestinian journalist
Hanno Hauenstein – Journalist and former editor, Berliner Zeitung
Wieland Hoban – Chair, Jewish Voice for Peace

Part 1: What does the ICJ ruling mean for Israel?

Judgement day at the International Court of Justice. The court has ruled the people of Gaza must be protected from genocidal acts carried out by Israel.

Richard Gizbert is joined by producer Tariq Nafi to discuss the impact this ruling could have on how the media discuss the war in Gaza.

Part 2: Mohammed el-Kurd on Palestinian resistance

Writer and journalist Mohammed el-Kurd in a video essay on Palestinian resistance and the Western media’s warped coverage of Palestine.

Contributor:
Mohammed el-Kurd - Writer and journalist

Part 3: India: Temple opening or election campaign kickoff?

A long-anticipated – and deeply contentious - consecration of a Hindu temple in India this past week featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi front and centre.

The country's mainstream media enthusiastically played along, giving Modi valuable airtime in what is an election year.

Contributors:
Apoorvanand - Professor, Delhi University
Seema Chishti - Editor, The Wire
Pamela Philipose - Author, Media's Shifting Terrain
Sreemoy Talukdar - Deputy executive editor, Firstpost

The ICJ hearings have drawn scorn as well as shock from Israel’s media punditry. In the West, however, the case has emboldened journalists to ask tougher questions of the Israeli narrative.

Lead contributors:
Oren Ziv - Reporter, +972 Magazine
Mouin Rabbani - Co-editor, Jadaliyya
Selma Carmey - Human rights lawyer
Gideon Levy - Columnist, Haaretz
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project; Former Israeli political adviser

On our radar:

Australia’s public broadcaster- ABC - fired a radio host after she shared a report on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis to her social media. Meenakshi Ravi reports on a leak showing a pro-Israel pressure group may have been involved.

Feature: Top marks for Finland

Finland’s educational drive around media literacy offers a model for educators, broadcasters and countries around the world.

Feature contributors:
Leo Pekkala - Deputy director, National Audiovisual Institute
Mari Vesanummi - Media education producer, YLE
Valtteri Kela - Finnish language teacher, Helsinki French Finnish School
Valentina Uitto - History teacher, Helsinki French Finnish School

With the International Court of Justice deliberating over South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, we look at how the proceedings could affect reporting on the war.

Contributors:
Qaanitah Hunter - Journalist, News24
Nimer Sultany - Editor-in-Chief, The Palestine Yearbook of International Law
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project
Tony Leon - Political commentator

On our radar:

In Ecuador, masked gang members break into the studio of the state broadcaster, firing at staff and taking hostages. Tariq Nafi explains the country’s gang violence crisis and why the media has become a target.

Feature - Sudan: 2023’s Forgotten War

Thousands killed, millions displaced - the crisis in Sudan continues unabated and underreported. Two Sudanese journalists reflect on the coverage of Sudan’s civil war.

Contributors:
Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Editor, Eyes on Sudan
Isma’il Kushkush - Sudanese-American journalist

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After three months of destruction, displacement and the killing of Palestinians, we take a deep dive into the way the Gaza story has been covered.

Since the attacks on October 7, The Listening Post has interviewed a range of experts on the news coverage – what’s missing in it, and how it has helped enable the crimes being waged on Palestinians in Gaza.

In this special edition, we’ve compiled three interviews – with one journalist, one expert on human rights and another on digital rights. They talk us through the way the media – through their news coverage – have helped pave the way to a genocide.

Contributors:
Francesca Albanese – United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Marwa Fatafta – MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access Now
Mariam Barghouti – Writer and journalist

In 17 years of The Listening Post, we have never seen a story anything like Israel’s war on Gaza.

It has been a turning point for the world order as we know it and its media ecosystem – which is why, since October 7, we have covered nothing else.

In this special edition, we compiled our reporting on the Gaza war over the past 12 weeks. The extent of the brutality, a genocide unfolding in plain sight; the sheer volume of disinformation, designed to defend the indefensible; and the complicity of so many Western news outlets – repeatedly exposed for failing to question Israeli propaganda, then spreading it.

Contributors:
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - Professor of Modern Culture & Media, Brown University
Azad Essa - Author, Hostile Homelands
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project
Orly Noy - Journalist, Human Rights Advocate
Omar Al-Ghazzi - Associate Professor of Media & Communications, London School of Economics
Rami Younis - Journalist; Former host On the Other Hand, Makan 33
Ramzy Baroud - Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Chronicle
Sarah Leah Whitson - Executive Director, DAWN
Swasti Rao - Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
Yara Eid - Palestinian Journalist in Gaza
Yumna Patel - Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss

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According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel’s military has now killed 97 journalists in the Strip. Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza, firsthand reporting on the onslaught there has been left to Palestinians already locked into the occupied territory - documenting their own genocide.

Contributors:
Amahl Bishara - Professor of anthropology, Tufts University
Arwa Damon - Former senior international correspondent, CNN
Sari Bashi - Program director, Human Rights Watch
Wael Dahdouh - Gaza bureau chief, Al Jazeera Arabic

On our radar:
The settler movement - which has placed 700,000 Israelis on the West Bank in complete contravention of international law - now has its eyes on Gaza. Producer Flo Phillips on Israeli developers' plans in post-war Gaza.

The war in Gaza & the end times - the Christian Zionist view:
Evangelicals in the United States - many of whom call themselves Christian Zionists - are some of the biggest supporters of Israel in the US, and they broadcast their support on TV and radio networks that have huge audiences.

Contributors:
Chrissy Stroop - Senior correspondent, Religion Dispatches
Melani McAlister - Author, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
Sarah Posner - Journalist and author, Unholy

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Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether it will make any difference.

Contributors:
Ariella Aisha Azoulay - Professor of Modern Culture & Media, Brown University
Omar Al-Ghazzi - Associate Professor of Media & Communications, LSE
Ramzy Baroud - Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Chronicle
Yumna Patel - Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss

On our radar:
Eighty-nine journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Producer Tariq Nafi on the targeting of journalists, and their families, in Gaza.

Silenced and surveilled: Palestinian citizens of Israel:
Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel have been arrested for social media posts criticising Israel’s assault on Gaza. Rami Younis talks about the clampdown on Israel’s Palestinian citizens.

Contributor:
Rami Younis - Journalist, Former host of ‘On the Other Hand’, Makan 33

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