27, July 2014 Gaza - Media Gate
The pressure is mounting to hold Israel accountable for committing the war crimes. Speaking at the U.N. Human Rights Council, Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said there is a "strong possibility" Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza. Pillay cited Israel’s deadly attack on residential homes in the Shejaiya neighborhood and the shelling of the al-Aqsa Hospital. Her comments followed Amnesty International demand that Israel be investigated for war crimes. What is extremely disturbing is the skewed media coverage of Gaza. There appears to be a self-imposed media censorship – with the exception of few courageous newspapers - of any criticism of Israel’s actions. Some have dubbed this as “media gate”. A week after public outrage helped force NBC’s reversal of a decision to pull veteran reporter Ayman Mohyeldin out of Gaza, the sole Palestinian contributor to sister network MSNBC, Rula Jebreal, has protested that "We are disgustingly biased when it comes to this issue," on MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow Daily, citing a disproportionate amount of Palestinian voices and a preponderance of Israeli government officials and supporters. She complained that Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli officials and diehard Israeli supporters – Andrea Mitchell, Wolf Blitzer – appear to have a complete monopoly of air time. The American people are thus denied the opportunity to hear opposing voices. Finally, the complex relationship between Israel and the US was the subject of a recent National Summit meeting; see http://youtu.be/CkxuC0phFck for details.
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