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Any news updates from Seven, Nine or 10?
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Three journalists killed after a media compound in Southern Lebanon was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Lebanon calls it a war crime, Israel says it is investigating the incident
Predicting the result of that âinvestigationâ:
âHamas was hiding in that media compound. The journalists are human shields.â
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Al Jazeera is effectively the state media arm of the Qatari government - a government that is a key ally of the Palestinian extremists and Iran. They are no more than Piltdown Man in the form of a TV channel IMO.
Theyâre the only news organisation continuously reporting on the current war in detail with boots on the ground.
And to do that they have to please the militants. Just like the Red Cross/Crescent has to please the rulers in countries run by craphole regimes.
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Oh come on.
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Donât the BBC have people in the ground reporting the latest developments?
Do people actually believe that NGOs like the Red Cross can operate freely in non-democratic countries or territories?
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Thatâs irrelevant. Conflating NGOs sucking up to leaders of third-world nations as the same as a media organisation that happens to be based in an Arab-dominant nation is a fallacy.
In terms of media coverage, I certainly wouldnât consider Al Jazeera unbiased but their coverage is useful in showing the âother sideâ (which unlike what some think) that actually exist and like it or not for the sake of balance the world should see and know both.
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I mean the BBC is also on the ground last time I checked?
So this brings me to a common point about the issue of the media coverage on the conflict. Why is it that the international media think that only the Jewish people are so precious that anyone who dares to lift a finger on them is automatically labelled antisemitic such as the likes of Sky News Australia tend to perpetuate? Why isnât there any balanced coverage on the fact that a lot of Islamophobic Israelis who have hunted Pro-Palestinians? Why is it when Israelis/Jews are targeted theyâre sympathised as victims of antisemitism whilst the Pro-Palestinians who were targeted are victimised as âtheir faultâ?
Why is it that only antisemitism is considered news but Islamophobia is not? Both are equally pathetic and deserves the full force of the law.
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I would say that the âwhyâ, especially in this context of a European country that was occupied by the Nazis, is due to the Holocaust being still in the living memory of some members of society.
Doesnât necessarily mean itâs correct or totally justified but this historical context means that these sorts of things can quickly evoke memories of that particular dark chapter of human history.
Iâll add that Islamophobia is a bit of a blind spot in our society, unfortunately I donât think the pro Palestine activists are doing their cause here many favours with such things as going after families going to see Christmas windows in Melbourne.
The only time you really see Islamophobia called out is when something extreme happens like the horrid attack in Christchurch a few years ago.
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Sure but in America and Australia where itâs less of a thing the right wing media tries to make it a thing, even though public sentiments seem to suggest either a neutral or leaning pro-Palestinian side because of the shambles that is the Israeli government.
I donât like it how the media keeps latching onto sensitive Jewish/Zionist people saying that any criticism or action against Israel is antisemitic, when it really isnât. If theyâre getting worked up about it, why donât they go and ask those who have experienced Islamophobia in the same degree yet never get the same platform to express it? If anything they get more sympathy purely because the media gives it to them and are egged on by right wing politicians like the Liberals here.
Iâm not downplaying antisemitism but there is a clear bias towards calling out antisemitism compared to Islamophobia and if the media want to be trusted in delivering quality news coverage they need to cover both in equal light.
Sure, and I thought it was very poor taste of those organisers who seemed to be proud of their âachievementsâ to stop others from enjoying Christmas.
But you donât see them go on and attack people of Jewish faith specifically for what they did, whereas thereâs plenty of examples of Jewish/Zionist people actively calling for the destruction of Palestine/Gaza and advocated for violence against Arabs and Palestinians like what happened in Amsterdam.
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To be fair it is hard to keep the reporting as balanced as possible when you can its a lot easier to get information about whatâs going on with Israil but 10 x harder to get information related to the other sides.
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I get your point but Iâm referring to news coverage of the societal conflict outside of Israel/Gaza, like what happened with Amsterdam for example. Itâs always the âpoor Jewish people who have been targeted in Antisemitic attacksâ but never the âpoor Muslim people who have been targeted by Zionists in Islamophobic incidentsâ and so on. Itâs always the supposedly âantisemiticâ incidents that get the attention (or so our politicians wants us to think so too) in the news but no one ever cared about Islamophobic things that happens just as regularly.
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