Fox News Discovers Activists Back Palestinians, Not Just Planet
Fox News breathlessly reported on Greta Thunberg's arrest in London, joining a protest for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. The shock seems to be that someone famous for environmentalism might also care about human rights beyond carbon emissions. It’s almost as if the right to protest, and the right to not be indefinitely detained without charge, are universal concepts, not just issues for
specific 'causes.' How inconvenient for a media landscape that prefers neatly packaged, non-overlapping grievances. (And how much easier for them not to mention arbitrary detention, administrative detention, or the decades of international law violations.) Instead of exploring why individuals might undertake hunger strikes—a desperate measure against systemic injustices often cited by
organizations like Amnesty International—the focus remains on her celebrity. But what if the next generation sees the connection between environmental degradation and military occupation? (Spoiler: they do). It's a continuity of struggle, not a sudden pivot, that the corporate media often struggles to comprehend, preferring to frame it as a 'radical turn' rather than a logical progression.