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Global Issues @globalissues.org · 3d

The title, from @medialens.bsky.social, is powerful.

It can be applied generally on most topics. "He says, she says" is not journalism. "False balancing" amplifies extreme voices disproportionately when not challenged. An avenue for propaganda.

Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our latest media alert:

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism

www.medialens.org/2025/israel-...

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism

Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospit...

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 1d

Jeremy Bowen:

'a century of conflict between Arabs and Jews’

This is a prime example of how BBC News misinforms audiences.

Not a word about Israel being a western settler-colonial state.

Israel has always been an outpost of Western imperial power.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two years on, will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?

There is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6d

Palestinian civilians are being slaughtered by Israel's F-35 jets.

Britain is supplying crucial components for those murderous fighter jets.

I asked Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper about them.

She refused to answer.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

Extraordinary stuff.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6d

Apparently questioning Emily Thornberry about Israel's genocide is "misogyny".

I don't "chase" any men, she says.

Well, it's the first time I've been accused of that.

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 7d

You don't often see a politician exposed quite as brutally as this. Demolished.

Please click on the link to watch the clip:

x.com/WokeratiMart...

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 7d

The government has "no plans" to end its relationship with Israeli drugs firm Teva - which supports Israel's military - since the UK continues "a trade and partnership agreement" with Israel, health minister says.

#DCUKparliament

Read about Teva/NHS 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...

The Israeli firm aiding the NHS and IDF

Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7d

Its being reported that Israel has seized and detained around 170 people so far from boats in international waters & it is taking them to Israel

Nour Odeh reporting

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent from Richard Sanders and Double Down News.

EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfV...

EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 10d

'There is no mention in any of the files – that I could find – of the morality of engaging with the new regime. The slaughter was simply an irrelevance.

'Most studies put the number of dead in the mid-1960s slaughters at between 500,000-800,000.'

www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...

‘Ruthless terror’ – When Labour aided genocide in Indonesia

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 10d

We've often discussed his terrible track record on foreign policy, but this is excellent from George Monbiot - Israeli genocide plus ecocide equals 'holocide':

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 13d

It is only fitting that a major war criminal should be chosen to oversee a post-genocide Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 13d

Dr. Matthew Alford has very rapidly produced a brilliant audio version of today's Media Alert:

"6th Form Politics" - A Propaganda Blitz Awaits Zack Polanski
youtube.com/watch?si=mli...

"6th Form Politics" - A Propaganda Blitz Awaits Zack Polanski | Media Lens

YouTube video by Matt Alford: Scourge of the Spin Machine

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 13d

Media Alert: ‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski

www.medialens.org/2025/sixth-f...

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski

On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of the vote share. Polanski defeated Adrian Ramsay...

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 14d

Trump: 'I've been right about everything.' 😂

x.com/sturdyAlex/s...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 14d

Your Party (re-)opens membership with Corbyn half-apology - and no Sultana

The one-sided announcement from Corbyn and half-baked apology is the opposite of what was needed at this time from Your Party, says Skwawkbox
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Your Party (re-)opens membership with Corbyn half-apology - and no Sultana

The one-sided announcement from Corbyn is the opposite of what was needed at this time from Your Party, says Skwawkbox

www.thecanary.co

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16d

👉NEW -- Parliament blocks Declassified, citing our Gaza ‘standpoint’

by Martin Williams

MPs condemn ‘sinister move’ to deny access to Declassified reporters.
www.declassifieduk.org/parliament-b...

Parliament blocks Declassified, citing our Gaza ‘standpoint’

MPs condemn ‘sinister move’ to deny access to Declassified reporters.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 16d

The BBC continues to describe the genocide in Gaza as a 'war': even after a UN commission of inquiry described it as genocide, along with numerous human rights organisations and genocide scholars, including Israeli experts.

BBC News 'impartiality' = genuflecting to Israel

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 28d

So, Keir_Starmer thinks that welcoming an Israeli war criminal is 'diplomacy'.

Anyone who objects is engaging in 'the politics of students'.

Sums up the moral abyss of this Prime Minister.

x.com/ScotNational...

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 29d

Mere rhetoric. Condemn, deplore and urge.

On and on through Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Stop arming Israel, Keir Starmer.

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks to Matthew Alford for this beautifully read audio version of an extract from 'A Short Book About Ego' by David Edwards. Note the thunder at the start, not a special effect. 👏👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1I...

" The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ "| Media lens

YouTube video by Matt Alford: Scourge of the Spin Machine

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Sep 3

‼️Exclusive: Gaza victim demands justice over British spy flights

By our reporter in Gaza

A spy plane from a UK air base flew over his neighbourhood in Gaza hours before Israel blew up his home. Now he wants answers.

www.declassifieduk.org/exclusive-ga...

Exclusive: Gaza victim demands justice over British spy flights

A spy plane from a UK air base flew over his neighbourhood in Gaza hours before Israel blew up his home. Now he wants answers.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · Sep 2

Well worth watching. 👇

And here's our March 2014 media alert about Robertson's work and how BBC Scotland attacked him:

www.medialens.org/2014/scotlan...

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is powerful. Please watch and share.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVb...

Former UN Chief EXPOSES October 7

YouTube video by Double Down News

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