Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, recently summed up Israel’s 76-year occupation of Palestine as a ‘settler-colonial conflict’ and a g*nocide, not a ‘war between two armies.’
Speaking before the UN’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Albanese (@franceskalbs on X) described Israel’s ongoing military onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza as the most ‘basic infringement of the law of self-determination.’ She argued that the Palestine question must be seen through the framework of settler colonialism to employ a proper application of international law.
In ‘Bad News from Israel,’ a 2011 book documenting the findings of extensive research on the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, authors @greg_philo (X) and Mike Berry showed that the broadcaster did not provide viewers with in-depth context or include the perspective of Palestinians. International media has continued to publish this skewed portrayal.
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Sources:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45243578_Bad_News_from_Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jul/08/greg-philo-obituary
https://www.plutobooks.com/author/greg-philo/