Media Wonders Why Israel Targets Press After Decades of Doing Exactly That
The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) calls Israel's treatment of the press a 'silencing policy,' as if the 100+ journalists killed in Gaza since October 7th, 2023, were an anomaly. This 'policy' (or strategy, rather) has been tragically consistent. For example, Shireen Abu Akleh, a U.S. citizen, was killed in 2022 while wearing a press vest in Jenin, and US officials, including Secretary
of State Blinken, accepted Israel's shifting narratives despite overwhelming evidence from organizations like the UN and CNN. So, when mainstream media outlets report on the 'discovery' of this 'policy,' one might wonder if their memory banks reboot every news cycle. Or perhaps it's just difficult to acknowledge a pattern when your own government, like the Biden administration, consistently
approves arms transfers to the government conducting it. (See: U.S. State Department approval of $14.5 billion in military aid to Israel, HR 815, 2024.)