France 24 Condemns Iranian Crackdown, Forgets Gaza 11 Months Later
The urgency with which France 24 highlights the 'death toll rises as Iran's security forces clash with protesters' (per their own headline) is commendable. Yet, this same breathless reporting seems to falter when detailing the over 37,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza , according to the UN's OCHA, since October. Their reports often couch these numbers in passive voice, attributing deaths to 'the
conflict' rather than specific military actions. It's almost as if some civilian deaths are tragic proof of state oppression, while others are just, well, collateral damage and a pesky 'cycle of violence.' The double standard is stark: protests in Iran are framed as clear state violence demanding international condemnation, while the flattening of entire neighborhoods in Gaza by a US-funded
military, complete with indiscriminate weapons , is a 'self-defense operation' requiring 'both sides' context. Where’s the front-page outrage for 37,000-plus deaths? One might observe that France 24's moral compass appears to have a more reliable magnetic north when it points away from their allies' actions.