Tag: Kinetic Vs Structural Violence

How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine | +972 Magazine

Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

 

While much has been made of the differential coverage of Palestinian versus Israeli suffering over the past several months, by far the greater asymmetry is to be found when comparing coverage of the weeks of kinetic violence after October 7 versus the decades of structural violence before.

Source: How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine | +972 Magazine