Letter

In response to Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

Follow the money

Is it anti-Catholic to criticise Italy? Is it anti-Anglican to criticise the UK? Is it anti-Islam to criticise Indonesia? No-one in their right mind would think so.

So why the ridiculous postulate that it’s antisemitic to criticise Israel? We (and journalists please pay attention) need to rigorously question these fences erected to suppress free speech.

It doesn’t take much digging to reveal the money, the power and the land grab at the heart of Israel’s assault on Gaza, and, by extension, the taboo imposed by politicians and the media in openly condemning the war crimes being committed there. Remember the fever of anti-colonialism in our media just a couple of years ago? Remember the outrage? Where are the anti-colonists now when a colonial genocide is happening in real-time?

— Alyssa Aleksanian from Hazelbrook