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Mondoweiss: Power & Pushback: ‘Nobody can protect you’

Mondoweiss (3/18/25 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: Israel has abandoned ([link removed]) the ceasefire agreement and restarted its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, a war that has destroyed the region and killed tens of thousands of human beings. The ceasefire, as Gaza-based writer Hassan Abo Qamar among others reminds ([link removed]) , still allowed Israel to deprive Palestinians in Gaza of "food, water, medical care, education and freedom of movement." But it wasn’t enough and, as Belén Fernández writes ([link removed]) for FAIR.org, Israel’sUS-endorsed resumption ([link removed]) of all-out genocide killed at least 404
([link removed]) Palestinians right off the bat, but was reported ([link removed]) in, for instance, the New York Times as “Israel Tries to Pressure Hamas to Free More Hostages.”

We know that elite media will tell us someday that the whole world was horrified by the genocide of Palestinians, and that journalists decried it. But someday is not today. We need reporters who aren’t not afraid they will be targeted, but who may be afraid and are nevertheless bearing witness. Reporters like Hossam Shabat ([link removed]) , 23-year-old Palestinian correspondent for Al Jazeera ([link removed]) and Drop Site News ([link removed]) , targeted and killed March 24, and not even the first Israeli journalist assassination for the day: Hours earlier, Palestine Today reporter Mohammad Mansour ([link removed]) was killed in an Israeli strike on his home in southern Gaza.

The genocide of Palestinians is a human rights emergency, and also a journalism emergency. US reporters who don’t treat it as such are showing their allegiance to something other than journalism. A key part of their disservice is their ignoring, obscuring, marginalizing, demeaning and endangering the many people who are standing up and speaking out. Pretending protest isn’t happening ([link removed]) is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it’s telling lies about who we are and what we can do. We build action by telling the stories powerful media don’t want told.

We’ll talk about that with reporter Michael Arria, US correspondent for Mondoweiss ([link removed]) and the force behind their new feature called "Power & Pushback." ([link removed])

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of transphobia, and remembers FAIR board member Robert McChesney ([link removed]) .

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