Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCLVI: "blood libel"
Gaza famine!?
It's blood libel, blood libel ...
flanked by Flags of Zion
the P/Crime Minister rumbles
to cameras' rapid fire
FYI: The Times of Israel, August 23 2025: Netanyahu’s office calls Gaza famine declaration a ‘modern blood libel’
After a UN hunger monitor on Friday, August 22 declared for the first time that famine had struck northern Gaza, Israel vehemently denied the reports as “lies” and “modern blood libel.”
And for more about wartime journalism, see Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on Reporters Without Borders' Report: "The Israeli Army Is the Worst Enemy of Journalists"
And Haaretz, October 31, 2025: Inside the Israeli Media's 'Shocking Self-censorship' of the Horrors of Gaza
Throughout the Gaza war, the tremendous difference between international coverage and Israeli media coverage was obvious to anyone exposed to both.
In a new report, media scholar Dr. Ayala Panievsky's research quantifies precisely how pronounced that difference was...
"The professional journalists, people who Israelis spend their entire lives trusting to tell them the truth, rallied around the military in many ways – any criticism of what our soldiers were doing was just out of bounds. It wasn't part of the conversation."
Opinion, December 11, 2025: Save Israel's Self-censoring 'Free Press' - From Itself
The greatest blow to responsible freedom of expression comes from the media itself. It is not the government that silenced it during the past two years: The media silenced itself, and there was no opposition from inside. The media willingly censored itself; it mobilized to conceal the truth, out of fear and commercial considerations, in order not to annoy its customers.
