{"id":276817,"date":"2024-10-14T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276817"},"modified":"2024-10-10T07:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T06:29:33","slug":"why-is-the-liberal-media-peddling-the-vilest-genocide-apologism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/why-is-the-liberal-media-peddling-the-vilest-genocide-apologism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the \u2018Liberal\u2019 Media Peddling the Vilest Genocide Apologism?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A phalanx of the UK\u2019s most influential journalists brought this odious article to print, decrying as a \u2018blood libel\u2019 the reporting of Israel\u2019s killing of thousands of children in Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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6 Oct 2024 <\/em>– I can\u2019t put this strongly enough. Howard Jacobson\u2019s article in today\u2019s Observer newspaper may be one the vilest pieces of journalism published in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel\u2019s documented slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a \u201cblood libel\u201d and antisemitic. It is pure genocide apologism.<\/p>\n

But far worse is the fact that the Guardian Media Group signed off his column. This isn\u2019t the work of one Zionist loon. A whole army of journalists brought it to print.<\/p>\n

And note: Jacobson, odious as he is, isn\u2019t responsible for the choice of photo. That is entirely down to the Observer newsroom.<\/p>\n

I worked at both the Guardian and the Observer, its Sunday sister paper, for many years. The comment editor, the photo editor, the revise sub-editor, the Observer\u2019s chief editor and all the section heads would have approved not only Jacobson\u2019s text but that photo too.<\/p>\n

What on earth did they all imagine that \u201cillustrative\u201d photo of a blood-smeared doll suggested?<\/p>\n