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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago (9 children)

What a shitty article. It's so heavily biased in favor of genocide.

[–] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What did you want them to say? It’s not an opinion piece.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should be more neutral in a non-opinion piece. They quote a lot more people saying pro-genocide things than they quote people saying anti-genocide things. They quoted pro-genocide politicians and pro-genocide BBC staff. They did not give the musicians any opportunity to respond to the article.

Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has inflamed tensions around the world, triggering pro-Palestinian protests in many capitals and on college campuses. Israel and some supporters have described the protests as antisemitic, while critics say Israel uses such descriptions to silence opponents

Let's consider the two positions mentioned in this paragraph:

  1. Israel should stop committing genocide

  2. Israel should continue committing genocide, and position 1 is antisemitic

The first position is described as "pro-Palestinian", as if these protesters support the Palestinian military (Hamas) and want them to win. This is incorrect. These people mostly just want the genocide to end.

The second position is a shitty opinion, but also contains an overt falsehood. It's an objective fact that it's false, and that fact should be reported in the story, but it isn't.

[–] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Also I think what is really shitty is that outlets report on a genocide in this matter. But this article was about the response to Bob Vylan. I think both of us are angry about how anything related to the genocide has to be reported as the Israel Palestine conflict unless you want to receive an extremely negative response to your reporting.

Hell if we want to be all intellectual we can brand this as another symptom of the global capitalist system. AP can’t afford to call this a genocide. No news/corporation is brave enough to stand up to the genocide because it’s gonna hurt their bottom line.

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