With the escalation of Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza, a clear bias has emerged in the Western media in favor of the occupation narrative, revealing a deep crisis in the Western media discourse. Despite all the slogans raised by these means to defend human rights, the reality proved the opposite, as the Western media deliberately marginalize the suffering of the Palestinians and justify the violations of the occupation.
This bias was not a passing position, but reflected a crisis and duplication in the Western media system, which is reshaping reality according to perceptions of their interests, not according to the values, ethics and humanity that it claims to adhere to.
Thus, in the context of Western media bias, and its involvement in presenting a distorted mirror image of reality, where the resistance in Gaza is seen as a savage entity outside Western humanitarian logic, it promotes Palestinian resistance, which defends its people under siege and aggression. It considers it a threat to world peace, in exchange for portraying the Israeli occupation as a representative of values and ethics, and fighting a just war against evil, on behalf of the entire West. Thus, they make the aggressor a victim, and the resistance is terrorism, in a media discourse that produces reality according to the interests that serve them only.
Read more about Awareness and Media:
Western media distortion of Operation Maximum Flood
October 7, 2023, is a normal thing in the Western media discourse, revealing the extent of this media’s involvement in the incomprehensible bias of the Israeli occupation. Since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa, the Western media has been quick to condemn the event without an analysis of the actual event, adopting the story of the occupation, especially with regard to the right of self-defense, by any means and without accountability or accountability.
In this context, the Western media has gone from being a carrier of the event to a reality maker, producing a speech to justify Western public opinion, to invoke it in favor of the occupation, and to justify all the brutal crimes committed by the occupation against civilians in Gaza. The focus has only been on Israeli suffering, ignoring the entire 54,000 Palestinian martyrs. What the Western media is doing is not new to him, but repeated with every aggression on Gaza, where the Palestinian is dehumanized, and the aggressor is presented as a victim.
Western media coverage has revealed its duality with non-Western peoples and its absolute bias towards prejudices inherited from centuries of colonial domination, not on human values as it claims. This information does not move in a vacuum, but is linked to networks and interests of intelligence agencies, foreign policies and Zionist influencers.
However, the behavior of the Western media, especially in the aggression on Gaza, is managed under agendas that have nothing to do with fair values or human rights. The painful irony is that these media institutions, which have always presented themselves as a global professional conscience, are living today with a great duality, where crimes and massacres are committed daily against the innocent in Gaza, without directing even a fraction of their rhetoric on the brutal crimes against the people of Gaza.
Why does the Western media justify the crimes taking place in Gaza?
The Western media’s justification for the crimes of the Israeli occupation in Gaza cannot be understood, because their bias reflects racial discrimination in Western culture, whether the other is different race, religion or culture. In this context, the Palestinian resistance is not seen as a liberation movement, but rather as a movement that prevents Israel from extending into the heart of the Middle East.
For this reason, we find that Western media discourse legitimizes Israeli crimes and considers them as moral self-defense, ignoring the suffering of Palestinian civilians and erasing the realities of the land through systematic and intentional distortion. This media distortion produces a false reality and is a major threat, justifying massacres, washing away crimes, and reshaping Western public awareness. Collusion is openly manifested among the media, in a scene that reflects the fall of the values of the Western system, which has long claimed to stand with the truth and the human being.
Distortion of Western Media from Resistance to Terrorism
One of the most prominent tools of biased Western media discourse is the distortion of all basic concepts, replacing the concept of resistance with terrorism, in a direct adoption of the story of the Israeli occupation, the Western media was able to turn the victim into an executioner, in order to serve common political interests with the Zionist entity, and support colonial extensions in the Middle East.
A completely inverted image has been exported to the Western public, so that legitimate liberation and resistance movements are classified as a threat, while acts of occupation are portrayed as self-defense, and fall under the umbrella of freedom.
What we are witnessing is a deliberate fabrication, distortion of the facts, and condoning the suffering of a people who claim their rights. This huge media network does not convey reality as it is, but reshapes the suffering of the Palestinians to serve their interests. But it is a moral and humanitarian fall and exposes the more the bombing intensified, and the more martyrs, the Western media does not find room to display or even recognize its humanity.
Read More
