Al-Jazeera and The Countering of Pernicious Western Propaganda In Real Time..
Orientalism v Occidentalism in 2023.
Whisper it gently, but western support for Israel’s massacre of Palestinians is borne out of its deep-seated hatred and contempt for brown folk.
And this hatred has shaped the manner in which Arabs, Blacks, Asians, Latin folks are portrayed in the western media.
In the west, Arabs, Africans and Asians are usually presented as a bunch of savages, who are unable to function never mind govern themselves, without the help of the European.
This line of thought has been used to justify everything from regime change to resource theft and all-out genocide.
As Malcolm X once said:
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
And that sums up the extraordinary power of propaganda today in the west.
Since Israel launched its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza, it has put in a huge amount of effort into controlling the narrative. It has released lots of doctored evidence and got its envoy to do interviews in the western press, spinning what we have all seen for ourselves.