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M Reza Benham on CounterPunch: “One of the media’s most insidious tools has been language manipulation. From the start of the Gazawar, news outlets have employed a form of linguistic apartheid that dictates how human life and death are valued; essentially who is worthy of mourning. “Hence, the Israeli assault on Gaza has relied on rhetoric calculated and structured to strip Palestinians of their humanity; effectively masking acts of mass violence behind the language of routine administrative tasks. “Such linguistic sleight of hand is mirrored in official, clinical euphemisms designed to shield Israel’s military from accountability—recasting mass atrocities as “operations,” intentional starvation as “logistical challenges,” and the erasure of entire families as mere “collateral damage.” By design, this “functional framing” reduces human beings to mere casualty counts and transforms genocide into a sanitized tragedy. “The media has rendered Palestinian suffering an accidental byproduct, rather than the result of deliberate violence, through the use of the passive voice; in which verbs float free of actors, —where lives “are lost,” hospitals “are destroyed,” and buildings “collapse.” “There have been a number of instances in which news outlets have issued directives (https://t.co/DuKgTpgmAK)explicitly instructing reporters to avoid using specific terms such as: occupied territory, refugee camps, ethnic cleansing, and particularly genocide and Palestine. “Journalists and media personalities have understood that straying from the approved Israeli narrative or foreign policy consensus meant career stagnation, professional blacklisting or outright termination. “This starvation of empathy has done more than misrepresent, it has constructed a permissive semantic structure, that covertly shields and absolves perpetrators of their crimes. It ensures that mass devastation is read not as a human catastrophe, but as an abstract, inevitable footnote of geopolitics. “The most damning indictment of the media’s failure is that the truth has survived not because of, but in spite of institutional journalism. The heavy burden of documenting the war has fallen on courageous Palestinian journalists, citizen chroniclers, and independent digital outlets reporting from inside the ruins, often at the cost of their lives. As of mid-2026, international organizations and press watchdogs report that more than 260 journalists and media workers (https://t.co/GqSqiTaMrT) have been killed in Gaza.”
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