The problem is not so much the ignorance of journalists as it is their inability to remove the colonial blinkers they were raised with, from their mostly privileged upbringings and private schooling.
They are ill-equipped to think from the point of view of the occupied, of the oppressed – and if by some miracle, they did manage it, they would not survive long in Britain’s state broadcaster, or in the billionaire-owned, advertising-driven press.
The imperative for these journalists is to uphold the pretence that we, the West, are the 'good guys' and that those who refuse to submit to the enforcement of our privileges and their own subjugation must, by definition, be the 'bad guys'.
That paradigm is not just wrong. It is dangerous. It shores up ignorance among western publics, ignorance that western leaders then exploit to give Israel unquestioning backing as it commits atrocities against the Palestinian people.
More from my latest article: middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel
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