Gaza Starvation and Jerusalem Flag Day Chants: A Media Coverage Critique

You juxtapose the fact that babies are being starved to death because Israel

is

blocking baby formula with chants at music festivals that we don't

like.

Death, death to the IDF. Death, death to the IDF.

It's insane that that is getting so much coverage,

and the fact that Israel is

starving babies is not. If chanting something like, of that

nature is what we're deciding is problematic,

then it's interesting to me that every year

Israelis gather for Flag Day to celebrate the illegal

occupation of East Jerusalem, and in doing so,

chant, "Death to Arabs." Not death to Hamas,

not death to an

entity that is carrying out some kind of violence, but death to

an entire ethnic group. I mean, there are no...

There's no investigations, there's no outcry, there's no outrage.

It's just that repeatedly you see that in the Western narrative,

whether it's the

way that the media describes it, whether it's the way our politicians talk

about

it, Palestinian lives, Arab lives, Muslim lives do

not matter, and the only lives in this particular

situation that do

are Israelis.