Media Actions
Here are the links to take action related to the Media Watch campaign
Western Media’s coverage of reports by Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch frames these findings as mere allegations and accusations. Meanwhile, statements by Israeli officials are used as sufficient evidence to refute these claims, completely bypassing references to International Humanitarian Laws and the broader consensus of genocide.
AP: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-HRWMSF
The Hill’s coverage of the report by Doctors Without Borders deflects from Israel’s crimes by failing to reference international humanitarian laws and the growing consensus of genocide. They also incorrectly state 17 hospitals are fully functioning in Gaza.
New eyewitness testimonies paint a horrific picture of torture, rape and murder of renowned surgeon Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh. CNN’s original article on May 3rd, 2024 frames it as Dr. Al-Bursh “died” in Israeli custody. Demand updated reporting that reflects the systematic sexual violence against Palestinian detainees in illegal Israeli detention centers and the targeting of Palestinian healthcare workers.
Marsha Lederman pens an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail on the Amsterdam rioting by Israeli Maccabi fans. Her sensationalist, fear-mongering liberal Zionist take emphasizes self-victimization and detaches from the truth: Israel’s genocide in Gaza is inciting global condemnation and Israelis rioting with impunity in Amsterdam were met with resistance.
Respond here: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/GM-Lederman
November 12
Israeli Foreign Minister Bezalel Smotrich announces plans are in motion to annex the West Bank illegally. Western media act as Israeli stenographers, framing the move, internationally condemned as illegal, as ‘full Israeli sovereignty.’
Respond here: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Trend-WBAnnexation
November 7th
Following a humiliating loss, fans of the racist Maccabi team began rioting. Unlike other post-game riots in which police respond appropriately, Israelis used to acting with impunity, are now crying wolf.
These Israeli hooligans, descending upon Amsterdam for a soccer match, began exhibiting violent behaviour the day before, attacking a taxi driver and tearing down Palestinian flags while police looked on. Chanting genocidal slogans they were armed and instigating violence.
Respond here. Your responses will be sent to standards editors at The Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CBS, NBC, Barron’s and editors republishing this unethical garbage.
The Associated Press covers their report on hospitals in north Gaza. While they cover most of Israel’s attacks, they fail to complete their coverage by referencing Israel’s war on healthcare as a means of genocide, instead reiterating the Israeli military’s empty justifications of “command and control” bases.
Respond here: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-NGazaHospital
As Israel limits aid to Gaza to an unprecedented low, The Associated Press published an article framing Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinians as “failing far short” of America’s “ultimatum.”
The LA Times publishes an opinion piece by Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Fakhri details Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war and calls for an end to America’s complicity.
Respond here thanking the LA Times:
October 29
Israel continues its massive destruction in north Gaza and its purposeful targeting of UNRWA schools. While the rest of the media attempts to isolate each bombardment, NBC is stepping up by reporting on the destruction as an intentional pattern.
October 29
As Israel passes laws banning UNRWA from operating in Gaza, the Associated Press obfuscates the facts, misleading the public into believing there is truth to Israel’s accusations against UNRWA. UNRWA is a lifeline for Palestinians and Israel’s vendetta against the organization is as old as its creation as it seeks to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
In a live interview, Ryan Girdusky made a barely veiled threat toward Mehdi Hasan, referencing the Israeli terrorist attack in Lebanon. While CNN made it clear Girdusky was no longer welcome as a guest, their follow-up coverage presents this threat as a ‘joke’ undermining the grim reality of the life-threatening rise in Islamophobia
Respond here: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-Pager
Tell the WSJ we see their obfuscation of Israel’s war crimes in north Gaza
The WSJ is spinning Israel’s crimes against humanity and war crimes in north Gaza as an ‘endgame.’ The only endgame here is ethnic cleansing and their reporting makes them complicit in these crimes.
Anti-semitism is real.
Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is real.
The ADL considers saying that as “anti-semitism.”
The ADL counts any Palsetinian acvitism, even that led by Jews, as anti-semitism. Why is the Post-Gazette platforming more of this sensationalist reporting?
Call Out the Media for Playing Along with Political Theatre
The media is guilty of selective reporting bias by emphasizing U.S. calls for a ceasefire, while downplaying or ignoring ongoing U.s. military aid to Israel. Rather than call out the obvious hypocrisy and political theatre, they mislead readers by presenting the US as an unbiased, peace-seeking mediator, rather than an architect of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Let them know that this is unacceptable!
Thank the New York Times for platforming American doctors regarding the horrors they witnessed in Gaza.
The NYT’s guest essay by Dr. Feroze Sidhwa aggregates eye-witness accounts of 65 healthcare workers – an unfiltered, eye-opening expose could be one of the most important articles published in Western media about the horrors, and evident genocide, that Palestinians in Gaza face.
Let them know that they need to print more of this!
The commemoration of October 7th, 2023, as a static snapshot renders it a justification for 76 years of colonization, 12 years of genocide and a never-ending campaign of violence and aggression in the Middle East.
Tell Western Media you refuse to accept this twisted narrative that demonizes Palestinian resistance and dehumanizes Palestinians to allow Israel to act with impunity and justify the genocide and its funding.
Respond here:
ABC: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/ABC-Oct7
CNN: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-Oct7
CBS: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CBS-Oct7
AP: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-Oct7
Time: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Time-Oct7
Reuters: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/reuters-Oct7
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WSJ is using ‘jihadism’ to demonize Palestinians and cover America’s complicity in genocide
Framing October 7th as jihadism and terrorism while evoking 9/11 is a demonizing and egregious tactic.
Tell them we’ve had enough of media demonizing Palestinians to promote more ‘war’
War reporter and CEO of a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Janine di Giovanni published her perspective after 1 year of genocide in Gaza. Thank her for her coverage but ask her to please drop the bothsideism. After 1 year of genocide, she should know better than to draw false equivalences between a people who are occupying and a people who are being ethnically cleansed.
Tell the Media to Stop Platforming Greenblatt and His Propaganda
The media continues to platform Greenblatt, despite serious allegations against him, including by ADL staffers and prominent Jewish community members. Given
Greenblatt’s intellectually dishonest definition of antisemitism, his statistics are questionable and part of a calculated effort to fearmonger and criminalize opposition to Israel’s genocide.
Call on the media to platform reputable figures and hold them accountable for their erasure of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim violence post Oct. 7th.
Let them know that this is unacceptable!
Thank AP for publishing two articles following Palestinian families over the year of genocide.
Remind them to present the full story
History did not begin October 7th
Respond here:
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/ap-oneyear
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Campus encampments have been overwhelmingly peaceful, yet articles like this purposeful use perceived antisemitism to demonize antigenocide demonstrations.
Criticism of Israel Does NOT Equal Antisemitism
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-Studentsfear
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Bret Stephens is a genocide-denier with a history of being an outright anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian Islamophobe. Yet NYT gives his war-mongering demonization a platform.
Demand NYT ends complicity in Islamophobia.
War-Mongering
The Economist’s article hinges upon pure demonic speculation of Iran using nuclear bombs – all to manufacture consent for Israel’s aggression in the region.
Demand a retraction;
The Economist is publishing baseless opinions presented as journalism.
The NYT’s article on the brutality of Hamas is nothing short of a red herring, full of deflections and justifications for Israel’s egregious war crimes in Gaza
Western Media’s Islamophobic, anti-Arab dehumanizing rhetoric seeks to demonize any resistance to Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and others. Why are Western nations ‘allies’ and Eastern nations ‘terrorists?’
Wall Street Journal: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/WSJ-Lebanon
Associated Press: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-Lebanon
Reuters: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Reuters-Lebanon
NYT: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-HezbollahTensions
NYT: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-StrategicShift
Drop the word ‘aid.’
Reuters must call it what it is: America is funding a genocide.
Full Stop.
Demand honest and ethical reporting and an end to the complicity.
Deploying hidden bombs in grocery stores, markets, and family homes killing children and civilians not engaged in combat is terrorism
Demand an end to the glorification of Israel’s war crimes.
Respond here:
Business Insider https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/BI-Terrorattack
Western Media is running with the story of the Philadelphi Corridor as a legitimate security concern. Demand they drop Israel’s framing bias. This is Israel moving the goalposts to prolong the genocide and isolate Gaza.
WSJ is framing delivery of apples as a reprive. What about the call to starve Northern Gaza, intentional starvation of Palestinians. Demand proper coverage
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-Brutality
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So why are outlets reporting on Netanyahu’s so-called Gaza plan failing to state that his map effectively annexes the West Bank?
Demand an apology and correction – this is ethnic cleansing and should be called out
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/WBMap
http://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/BG-Brown
Tell the New York Times that the biggest threat to Israeli hostages is Israel itself.
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-Hostages
Giving Birth in Gaza is missing one thing – who is doing this?
By failing to mention Israel, Marie-Claie absolves Israel of its war crimes: a genocidal campaign that has rendered pregnancy and childbirth life-threatening.
Thank them for the expose.
Demand accountability.
An Israeli sniper targeted and killed Aysenur as she was in a peaceful gathering. As has been the pattern, the Israeli government and Western media seem to be working hand in hand to demonize Aysenur and blame her for her own murder.
Demand a retraction from the most egregious publications:
CNN – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-Ayşenur
Reuters – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Reuters-Ayşenur
Demand accurate reporting:
NYT – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-Aysenur
AP – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-Ayşenur
Thank the Washington Post for reporting accurately:
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/WP-Appreciation
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/WP-Appreciation_Aysenur
For PALESTINIAN rights is NOT THE SAME AS Anti-Canadian
Canadian Media must be un-biased, and must not demonize anti-genocide Canadians. Email the News Media Council and its member reporters and editors:
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CDN-SauveNDP
Undermining the extent of Israel’s genocide.
Their egregious attempts to create a “controversy” around how many Palestinians Israel killed, to cast doubt through “according to the health ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians” and to demonize with phrases like the “Hamas-run ministry” have acted to aid and abet Israel’s ethnic cleansing.
Demand an apology and a commitment to truthful reporting that reflects the growing consensus. We knew this was a genocide. Now, we’re beginning to learn the extent of it.
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Palestinian-Extermination
Call out Media fear-mongering: Israel has done nothing to free the hostages
Israel could have had its captives back on October 8th. Instead, they have sabotaged every ceasefire. The media has glossed over all of this and is using “new orders” to demonize Hamas. This disregards a) the Nuseirat massacre in which the world learned how little Palestinian lives are valued and b) Hamas has agreed to release the captives, Israel is refusing to stop the genocide.
Time Magazine – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Time-Hostagecrisis
Axios – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Axios-Hostagecrisis
CNN – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-Hostagecrisis
Forbes: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Forbes-PolioS
Reuters: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Reuters-PolioS
NYT: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-PolioS
Freedom of Speech v/s Safety:
Boston Globe: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/BG-BTS
Associated Press: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-BTS
For the past year, the media has adopted a bothsideism narrative regarding why a ceasefire deal has not been reached. We’ve been telling them Israel is sabotaging the ceasefire deals, most notably when they assassinated Ismail Haniyeh and demonized his successor, Yahya Sinwar. The Palestine Chronicle reports on what is being called a Blood Document – hard proof of Israel’s sabotaging the last ceasefire deal. Demand the media stop complicity in shifting the blame from Israel.
Click below to send a letter to journalistic standards and ethics, CCing all the lead editors at major news outlets complicit in this cover-up:
https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Blood-Document
CNBC’s recent interview parrots the lie that Hamas has rejected the ceasefire deals and is therefore responsible for the death of these hostages. Correct them here:
These lies paint the aggressor as the victim and demonize any resistance or acts of self-defence. The media must end its parroting of Israel’s dangerous rhetoric. Respond here:
Bloomberg: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Bloomberg-PreemptiveStrike
Washington Post: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/WP-PreemptiveStrike
CNN: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-PreemptiveStrike
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https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-Polio
NAKBA, NAKBA, NAKBA:
“Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48.” – Ariel Kallner, Oct 7. 2023
We are witnessing Israel enacting these words: genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing and displacement in the West Bank. The media is complicit in this crime! By framing Israel’s actions as legitimate military incursions and demonizing Palestinian’s right to defend their lives, loved ones and land. Let them know what Israel is doing amounts to terrorism: unlawful violence for political gain: to illegally annex more land.
Forbes: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Forbes-WB_Raids
NBC: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NBC-WB_Raids
CNN: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CNN-WB_Raids
Washington Post: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/WP-WB_Raids
Associated Press: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-WB_Raids
CBS: https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CBS-WB_Raids
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Take 5 minutes to write to these media houses: NYT – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/NYT-AugCeasefirePlan
CBC – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/CBC-AugCeasefirePlan
AP – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/AP-AugCeasefirePlan
Bloomberg – https://wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/Bloomberg-AugCeasefirePlan