Drop Site News reports: “Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation.”
In “How can Israel attack Syria?” Al Jazeera reports: “An air attack killed 13 people in Damascus.”
Common Dreams reports: “UK Court Rules Fired Professor’s Anti-Zionist Views Are ‘Not Antisemitic.’”
The Intercept reports: “U.S. Journalist Jeremy Loffredo Released After Being Detained by Israel for Four Days.”
Columbia Journalism Review notes in “A deadly year for a press at war” that “Since October 7, the count of foreign reporters who have managed to enter the territory without an Israeli escort appears to stand at one: CNN’s Clarissa Ward, who went in briefly with an Emirati medical team in December.” Meanwhile, journalists based in Gaza, “have lost their lives in extraordinary numbers.”
CHARLES GLASS, charlesmglass at gmail.com, @charlesmglass
Glass wrote the book Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War. His prior books include Syria Burning and Deserter.
He said: “The media — despite some good reporting by many individual journalists in the field — have treated the IDF onslaught against Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon as reasonable conflicts rather than mass murder. For example, why is Gaza’s Ministry of Health typically referred to as the ‘Hamas-run’ Ministry of Health, when the Ministry, existed before Hamas took power there and will continue to operate if Hamas is succeeded by another Palestinian party? The logic of that dictates that Israel’s Ministry of Health should be called the ‘Likud-run’ Ministry of Health. The southern suburbs of Beirut are invariably referred to as a ‘Hezbollah stronghold’ when it is an area where hundreds of thousands of civilians live and where Hezbollah holds sway? It is a neighborhood more than a stronghold. So many indications of anti-Palestinian and anti-Lebanese bias emerge in what we read and hear that it sounds more like propaganda than reporting. Has nothing been learned since the lies that excused the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Israel has waged this war for more than a year, expanding it to Lebanon and threatening to take it to Iran with incalculable risks for world peace.”