At Glastonbury, Britain’s largest music pageant, two artists known as out Israel’s genocide in Gaza and accused the British authorities of complicity. On-stage remarks by one in every of them – Bob Vylan – plunged the nation’s public broadcaster, the BBC, which livestreamed the efficiency, into one more Gaza-shaped row.
Contributors:
Des Freedman – Creator, The Media Manifesto
Peter Oborne – Journalist and broadcaster
Karishma Patel – Former newsreader, BBC
Justin Schlosberg – Professor of Media and Communications, College Of Westminster
On our radar:
In the US, Zohran Mamdani has secured the Democratic nomination for New York mayor, regardless of relentless media assaults that focus much less on his insurance policies and extra on his outspoken stance towards Israel’s conflict on Gaza.
Tariq Nafi experiences.
Palestinians are seen as some kind of existential risk, only for being there
Whereas debates rage in worldwide media over phrases like “from the river to the ocean” and “demise to the IDF,” far much less scrutiny falls on the anti-Palestinian abuse that has turn into regular inside Israel – from pop songs to viral chants.
Palestinian analyst Abdaljawad Omar joins us from Ramallah to unpack this on a regular basis Israeli racism.
That includes:
Abdaljawad Omar – Lecturer, Birzeit College