{"id":273722,"date":"2024-09-16T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=273722"},"modified":"2024-09-14T05:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T04:10:58","slug":"how-the-genocide-on-gaza-exposed-israeli-and-western-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/how-the-genocide-on-gaza-exposed-israeli-and-western-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Genocide on Gaza Exposed Israeli and Western Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gaza Sep 2024 – Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye<\/p><\/div>\n

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Material and rhetorical support for the genocide of the Palestinian people is everywhere. It\u2019s time to ask why.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

13 Sep 2024 – <\/em>Nearly a year into the world\u2019s first live-streamed genocide \u2013\u00a0which began in Gaza, and is rapidly expanding into the occupied West Bank<\/a> \u2013 the establishment western media still avoid using the term \u201cgenocide\u201d to describe Israel\u2019s rampage of destruction.<\/p>\n

The worse the genocide gets, the longer Israel\u2019s starvation-blockade of the enclave continues, the harder it gets to obscure the horrors \u2013 the less coverage Gaza receives.<\/p>\n

The worst offender has been the BBC, given that it is Britain\u2019s only publicly funded broadcaster. Ultimately, it is supposed to be accountable to the British public, who are required by law to pay its licence fee.<\/p>\n

This is why it has been beyond ludicrous to witness<\/a> the billionaire-owned media froth at the mouth in recent days about \u201cBBC bias\u201d \u2013 not against Palestinians, but against Israel. Yes, you heard that right.<\/p>\n

We are talking about the same \u201canti-Israel\u201d BBC that just ran yet another headline \u2013 this time after an Israeli sniper shot an American citizen in the head \u2013 that managed somehow, once again, to fail to mention who killed her.\u00a0Any casual reader risked inferring from the headline<\/a> \u201cAmerican activist shot dead in occupied West Bank\u201d that the culprit was a Palestinian gunman.<\/p>\n

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After all, Palestinians, not Israel, are represented by Hamas, a group \u201cdesignated as a terrorist organisation\u201d by the British government, as the BBC helpfully keeps reminding us.<\/p>\n

And it is the supposedly \u201canti-Israel\u201d BBC that last week sought to stymie efforts by 15 aid agencies<\/a> known as the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to run a major fundraiser through the nation\u2019s broadcasters.<\/p>\n

No one is under any illusions about why the BBC is so unwilling to get involved. The DEC has chosen Gaza as the beneficiary of its latest aid drive.<\/p>\n

The committee faced the very same problem with the BBC back in 2009, when the corporation refused to take part<\/a> in a Gaza fundraiser on the extraordinary pretext that doing so would compromise its rules on \u201cimpartiality\u201d.<\/p>\n

Presumably, in the BBC\u2019s eyes, saving the lives of Palestinian children reveals a prejudice that saving Ukrainian children\u2019s lives does not.<\/p>\n

In its 2009 attack, Israel killed \u201conly\u201d 1,300 or so<\/a> Palestinians in Gaza, not the many tens of thousands \u2013 or possibly hundreds of thousands, no one truly knows \u2013 it has this time around.<\/p>\n

Famously, the late, independent-minded Labour politician Tony Benn<\/a> broke ranks and defied the BBC\u2019s DEC ban by reading out details of how to donate money live on air, over the protests of the show\u2019s presenter. As he pointed out then, and it is even truer today: \u201cPeople will die because of the BBC\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n