"Until mainstream media confront their role in this ecosystem of incitement, the bloodshed will continue — and so too will their culpability."
"The brutal murders of Israeli embassy staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim — slain overnight by a pro-Palestinian extremist — are not isolated incidents. They are the tragic consequence of a culture of incitement, where anti-Israel hatred is normalised, excused, and even celebrated. And it’s time for the media to acknowledge their role in fuelling this hatred.
"For nineteen months, the chant “Globalise the Intifada” has echoed across Western campuses and protest rallies. It is not a slogan of peace. It is a call to replicate a violent uprising beyond Israel’s borders. It is an incitement to bloodshed, and the media’s uncritical repetition of it — without scrutiny or context — has helped mainstream what should be morally unthinkable.
"When you repeat slogans like “Globalise the Intifada,” you are inciting violence against Israelis and Jews around the world.
"The danger of incitement is no abstraction. It became tragically real overnight, when a virulent antisemite — shouting “Free Palestine” — gunned down a young Israeli couple in cold blood outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
"This was not a “random” or “isolated” act. It was the logical endpoint of months of unchallenged propaganda, where the line between criticism of the State of Israel and antisemitism has been deliberately blurred, and where mainstream media have become unwitting — or at times willing — participants in the process.
"Consider the now-discredited claim that 14,000 babies were killed in Gaza — an inflammatory and baseless figure initially circulated by a UN official and repeated uncritically by major media outlets around the world. The claim has since been walked back, but the damage is done. The retraction, when it came, was barely a whisper compared to the roar of the original headline." . . .
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