"Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide" [Cómo manipulan los medios occidentales el genocidio palestino] Assal Rad. ENG ESP
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"Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide" (September 2026)
Activist and Middle East historian Assal Rad is known as the “headline fixer” for her powerful posts that illustrate how mainstream Western media’s coverage of the Gaza Genocide is filled with double standards. Israelis are described as "children" and "civilians," while Palestinians are "people under 18" and "collateral damage"; Israelis are killed; Palestinians die.
Even in the wake of the so-called ceasefire, major Western media continually obfuscates Israeli violence in Palestine: For example, the Associated Press reported that "Gaza's living conditions worsen as strong winds and hypothermia kill 5." No, Rad corrects: "Gaza's living conditions worsen as Israel blocks aid".
In "Don’t Say Palestine", Rad reveals a pattern of dehumanizing language—in outlets from CNN and the AP to the BBC and The New York Times—so consistently employed throughout the Palestinian genocide that it amounts to a policy.
Mainstream Western media consistently downplays Israeli responsibility, “others” Palestinians, and casts doubt on inviolable tenets of international law like the sanctity of hospitals and journalists in war zones. This groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé offers both a moral reckoning and an urgent call to action, mapping with devastating clarity the media’s complicity in whitewashing a human rights crisis.
In an era where misinformation and media manipulation run rampant, Assal Rad, a historian of the modern Middle East, has taken it upon herself to correct headlines that misrepresent the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Through her efforts, she reveals the power of narrative and the critical role headlines play in shaping public perception.
Over the past 3 years, historian Assal Rad has been correcting misleading mainstream news headlines on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Assal Rad – Non-resident fellow, Arab Center Washington DC.
Dr. Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at DAWN. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, contemporary Iran, and Israel/Palestine. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR.
Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad
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