An analysis of thousands of sentences in Canada’s top newspapers shows a clear bias that serves to sanitize Palestinians’ deaths

The largest Canadian newspapers have given disproportionate attention to the deaths of Israelis, portrayed Israelis in more humanized ways, characterized their deaths as more worthy of indignation, and more often identified who was responsible for killing them, a comprehensive comparison of reporting on the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians reveals.

The Breach analyzed thousands of sentences in coverage in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and National Post from Oct. 7 to Nov. 24. The study found that dozens of Palestinian deaths were required to merit just one mention in the newspapers, while there was one mention of Israeli deaths for every two Israelis who died.

The study shows a pattern of anti-Palestinian bias in Canada’s establishment media, sanitizing political violence against Palestinians and unequally stirring emotions about Israeli deaths.

Despite the unprecedented scale of Israeli bombing that has killed 20,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, the newspapers have never used emotionally evocative terms like “massacre” or “slaughter” to describe their deaths. Meanwhile, they regularly used those terms to describe the Hamas attack on Israelis on Oct. 7, when militants killed 1,139 people.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    34·
    11 months ago

    My issue is the notion of Palestinians making other not Palestine land their new homeland, which is emphatically never gonna happen and needs to be shut down however forcefully it requires. Nobody wants to live like that, so I’m unsympathetic to their obession with enforcing Islam through the nexus of a theocratic, oppressive state. Its interesting that for all the talk of oppression they literally want to run an oppressive theocratic state, its like a snake complaining it can’t bite because its in an aquarium or its had its dangerous teeth removed

    Edit: for all the talk against Israel, I would much rather live their than some of the crappy places theocrats inevitably turn the place into the moment they have have hegemonic and millitary dominance

    • girlfreddyOP
      42·
      11 months ago

      My issue is the notion of Palestinians making other not Palestine land their new homeland, which is emphatically not happening.

      Do you have a link for this info 'cause I haven’t seen anything about it.

      Nobody wants to live like that, so I’m unsympathetic to their obession with enforcing Islam through the nexus of a theocratic, oppressive state.

      I believe you’re mixing up Palestinians and Hamas. The two are not necessarily the same.