Media 'Discovers' Palestinians Exist, Years Too Late
When mainstream news discusses Gaza, the word 'Palestinian' often vanishes, replaced by terms like 'Hamas-controlled territory' or 'collateral damage.' This isn't an accident. It's a carefully crafted narrative, ignoring decades of occupation, blockade, and human rights reports. Remember when MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell, recipient of $10,000 from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) in 2018 (OpenSecrets.org), routinely referred to the Gaza Strip as 'contested territory' during the 2014 assault, implying equal agency for both sides? This 'erasure' is how they sanitize mass displacement and ongoing violence as merely 'complex conflict.' How many times does a people need to be massacred for their existence to register on America's newsdesks? Perhaps the quarterly
earnings reports and political donations mean more than the inconvenient truth of a besieged population.