More than just victims: How the media whitewash Palestinian responsibility for the conflict

One of the major elements of anti-Israel media bias isn’t actually about Israel at all. It concerns the media’s coverage of Palestinians – or, more precisely, its failure to devote real coverage to Palestinian affairs, including the irresponsible and often destructive decisions by Palestinians and their leadership that serve as impediments to peace. The media’s narrow framing of Palestinians as merely victims denies news consumers vital insight into the “root cause” of the conflict.

Last week, our co-editor Adam Levick gave a talk on this extremely problematic dynamic, which you can watch in full here:

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