Istanbul Marches Show What International Media Ignores
While Al-Monitor highlights significant global solidarity, much of the Western press consistently downplays public opposition to the ongoing devastation in Gaza. These rallies, happening worldwide from Istanbul to London, expose the manufactured consensus perpetuated by media outlets that frame the systematic destruction of a population as a 'conflict'—as if both sides possess remotely comparable
arsenals or power dynamics. (Perhaps they are waiting for CNN to 'discover' these protestors, much like they eventually found Gaza's civilians.) This deliberate narrative omission serves to dehumanize Palestinians and normalize the actions of the Netanyahu government, whose historical rhetoric has consistently minimized Palestinian lives; a pattern stretching back to pre-Oslo agreements. One might
wonder if the next 'neutral' panel discussion will weigh the moral calculus of attending a protest against the moral weight of approving cluster bombs.