On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, consciously and intentionally “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group.” The details provided are irresistibly persuasive, and point to Israel being in flagrant breach of both the Rome Statute, and Genocide Convention. In a truly just world, the mainstream media’s mass omertà on this landmark ruling would in itself be a criminal act.
As is any decent person who’s been paying close enough attention.
Not all biases are bad, and being biased against a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide is an excellent proof of that.
Having a bias against the Israeli government is having a bias in favor of accuracy and against atrocious human rights violations.
Did you not catch this part?
I’m not saying the bias is a problem in general, it’s just a problem for the trustworthiness of the reporting because they could be reading stuff into the source material that isn’t there.
And I’m saying that you’re wrong. Everyone has biases, and my comment above still applies when you’re writing about it.
I’d trust reporting that’s clearly biased in favor of the truth over the mealy mouthed forced neutrality of main stream sources any day.
Yes, which is why I try to get my news from more than one source so that I can tell whether or not it’s just someone reading something into a thing that wasn’t actually there or if multiple people with different perspectives have seen the same thing.