Mainstream Media 'Discovers' European Colonialism, Still Misses the Point
The New Arab reports on Dr. Azmi Bishara's opening of the CAREP conference, where he meticulously links European colonialism to the catastrophe in Gaza. Bishara notes that the Holocaust, while a monstrous European crime, was then weaponized to justify Zionism's settler project in Palestine. This critical perspective, often absent from Western analyses, highlights how Europe exported its historical
trauma, planting the seeds of dispossession and ethnic cleansing far from its own borders, a history the New York Times generally prefers to gloss over with talk of 'cycles of violence.' Instead of addressing this foundational truth, much of the mainstream media (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC) still debates the 'proportionate' response to the ongoing slaughter, meticulously avoiding terms like 'apartheid'
or 'genocide' that have been used by human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem since 2021. It begs the question: How many mass graves does it take for Europe's exported problem to finally be acknowledged as such, rather than as an indigenous conflict erupting inexplicably?