The media engages in mental gymnastics when portraying the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

New York Times headline (left)  and Mondoweiss headline (right) of the same news about the IDF shooting at Gazans trying to secure flour for their families during a famine. 

Dear Mondoweiss Reader

It is hardly surprising the corporate media doesn’t take Palestinian voices seriously. We always knew they barely covered Palestinian stories or let them speak in their own words. And we also knew the mainstream was perfectly willing to accept outlandish Israeli propaganda claims with credulity.

But what we’ve seen in the past six months has been a new low. So-called reputable sources uncritically repeated Israeli fabrications about Palestinians, playing into the Israeli effort to justify the genocide in Gaza by disseminating atrocity propaganda about October 7. Whether it’s the early repetition of the claim of “40 beheaded babies” (Mondoweiss was the first outlet to debunk it), or the widely publicized claims of systematic mass rape (we were one of the first sites to run multiple stories exposing several fabricated Israeli testimonies), the mainstream media has blood on its hands.

Thanks to our donors we are able to fight this relentless dehumanizing propaganda. If it wasn’t for independent news outlets like Mondoweiss, the spread of lies would’ve been even worse, with no accountability.

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Well into the genocidal campaign, the media continues to engage in mental gymnastics when portraying the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The media used the passive voice when 6-year-old Hind Rajab was “found dead” after an Israeli tank killed her, six of her relatives, and the team of paramedics dispatched to save her. It lent credence to unsubstantiated claims about an alleged “command-and-control” center under al-Shifa Hospital. And it talked about how people “died” during “aid convoy violence” in a “crush of bodies” when reporting on the Flour Massacre, in which Israeli forces deliberately shot and killed 118 starving Palestinians seeking aid.

Mondoweiss has been there from the start, pushing back against the narrative that seeks to manufacture consent for genocide.

This is why Mondoweiss is so important. We provide a platform to not only push back against the lies and the systematic biases in the current media landscape but to honor the stories of Palestinians by letting them speak in their own words.

We put all our resources and staff capacity into fighting the dehumanizing rhetoric, for audiences to know the martyrs by their names. We have highlighted stories of family and friends frantically trying to save their loved ones in Gaza. Unfortunately, it’s not enough. The world knows more about the international aid workers who have been killed than they do about the 14,000 Palestinian children.

We need to do more. All of us.

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Faris Giacaman
Managing Editor