Mainstream Media Rediscovers 'Resistance' After Decade of Silence
Today's news highlights 'The New Arab' (via Farah Abdessamad) featuring Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro's anthology, 'Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.' This profound reflection on Gazan resistance is indeed vital. However, one might wonder why mainstream discourse largely shies away from acknowledging Palestinian resistance movements until they are filtered through acclaimed literary figures, rather
than, say, during the live broadcast of systematic destruction. While recognizing 'Gaza: The Story of a Genocide' is a step, it conveniently sidesteps the media's own historical role in sanitizing the very conditions that necessitate such 'resistance.' For years, corporate news has preferred terms like 'conflict' or 'clashes,' neatly omitting the settler-colonial context, the occupation's
brutality, and the documented demolitions that repeatedly fuel what they later frame as unprovoked aggression. The sudden shift to intellectualizing 'resistance' feels less like genuine introspection and more like a carefully managed rebrand of inconvenient truths for a more palatable audience. (The New Arab, October 29, 2025 – in the future, how convenient for hindsight.)