CTV directed journalists not to use the word “Palestine” and has cultivated a “culture of fear” that is suppressing critical coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to internal emails obtained by The Breach and interviews with several employees. The journalists said senior producers and senior editors across the platforms of CTV’s parent company Bell Media have disparaged Palestinian guests, told employees that protests calling for a ceasefire should not be reported on, and blocked or delayed stories that included too much contextual information about Israel’s military occupation and regime of apartheid in Palestine. The journalists, who are not being identified for fear of retribution, described a widespread bias at the media conglomerate against Palestinians that’s resulted in one-sided, incomplete coverage of the violence in Gaza that does “a huge disservice” to Canadians.

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The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north. A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital, of which 42 were identified. 

“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied and stripped of their clothes,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. 

to talk to these "people" who admit everything themselves.... idk how he does it...

from Hamzah, 12/Mar/2024:

The Secret and Explicit Goals and Deeds of the Zionists : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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All Zionists are the same. If you are against their way, they call you antisemitic.

No I call Zionism racism and not less than the Nazi. And I am against Zionists Nazi and Israel alike.

And I am that way because I am human, and I don't consider you Zionist as Jews.

You Zionist are murder , child rapist, the scum of the earth. ..

That is called human and not antisemitic

Jews do not identify with racial superiority. We are semits and we are proud to be for humanity and against Zionism.

Free Palestine

sure, call me pro-hamas

i don’t know about you but i certainly believe in the right to resist oppression

is it really terrorism to even try to take down an apartheid who’s taken your land, killed your family, raped and starved and abducted your people and beaten your friends?

a victim of rape is allowed to hit their rapist, hamas is rightful resistence

Netanyahu just denied a ceasefire deal that would release every single hostage. I repeat, he denied it. Every last one could’ve been recovered during the bombing of Rafah, and it wouldn’t justify a single thing. Netanyahu said no so that this could happen.

Dear Zionists: If you so scared of equality, you must be benefitting from oppression

Yes I’ve seen the israeli blackface video

Yes I’ve seen zionists saying that calling it and the people in it racist is antisemitic

No further comments or questions at this time

When I encounter Zionists irl I clench my thighs extra tight so they don’t steal my menstrual cup straight out my cooch.

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Pinkwashing’s relationship with homonationalism and Orientalism

The pinkwashing carried out by Israeli authorities is based on an Orientalist view that Palestinians remain “backwards” in their stance on homosexuality because apparently, we refuse to emulate the progressiveness of the west. 

To be “gay friendly,” as gender studies academic Jasbir Puar explains, is to be modern, cosmopolitan, developed, first-world, Global North, and, most significantly, democratic – something that Palestinians supposedly do not have the capability of ever achieving.

This erases the agency of Palestinians, especially the progressive forces inside Palestine – including the achievements of queer Palestinian movements. The Orientalist tropes found in pinkwashing also completely disregards the history and legacies of colonialism and modern-day imperialism in the region. It is an example of euro-centric, western exceptionalism – and a pillar of anti-Arab racism.

Pinkwashing and homonationalism also go hand in hand. First coined by Puar in 2007, the concept of homonationalism argues that western LGBTQI+ movements are often bound up with upholding the racist sovereignty of the nation state. Puar argued that neoliberal and capitalist power structures line up with the queer liberation movement by using sexual diversity and LGBTQI+ rights to peddle or maintain nationalist stances – such as anti-immigration policies which are based on prejudices that the “other” are homophobic and that western society is egalitarian.

For Israel, homonationalism is deployed to justify its own exceptionalism and violent oppression of the “other” – in this case, Palestinians. 

Israel flaunts its liberal openness to homosexuality while contrasting it to the sexual oppression among Palestinian society and neighbouring Arab countries. It therefore serves as an excuse for Israel to rationalise its occupation of Palestinians, and to “liberate” oppressed Palestinian queers. The latter is seen through Israel’s myths about “saving” Palestinian queers by “regularly” approving their asylum seeker applications to escape their homophobic and oppressive families or communities in the West Bank or Gaza.

While it’s hard to verify how often these asylum seeker approvals occur, waxing lyrical about their supposed humanitarian work plays into the homonationalist narrative. Since when are immigration authorities – not just in Israel, but any immigration (or border) authority globally – benevolent, progressive entities full of empathy and care? Let alone towards Arabs?

As Queers Against Israeli Apartheid once pointed out, “there is no pink door in the apartheid wall.” This means that like every other Palestinian, LGBTQI+ Palestinians are also at the mercy of Israel’s violent, racist settler-colonial project. This is because queer Palestinians simply do not fit into Israel’s homonationalist quest to uphold the racist sovereignty of its nation state – one where a legally-enforced apartheid system puts only Jewish people at the top of the pyramid.

Zionists are like two seconds away from dropping a "sandn..." hard r at any given moment but constrain themselves to just hissing 'arab' like a slur. Just say you think genocide is okay as long as it happens to those dirty brownskinned kids and go.

“The humiliation Arab Jews experienced in Zionism is something they never experienced in the Arab countries. Here’s how Israel teaches Arab Jews to erase their identity." from AJ Plus, 14/Apr/2024:

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Mizrahi Jews are the largest Jewish demographic in Israel, but the country’s social and political elite are dominated by European Ashkenazi Jews. Israeli writer Alon Mizrahi, who is of Moroccan Jewish and Palestinian Jewish descent, spoke to use about white supremacy in Israel and how Arab Jews and other Mizrahi Jews are taught to bury and hate their heritage.

“If you have to hate Arabs the minute you set foot in Israel, then Zionism is a lie because many Jews were also Arabs and spoke Arabic.”

Israeli mocking killed humanitarian aid workers

The worst that humans can be. Israel!

lsrael ≠ Jewish. Hamas ≠ Palestinian.