The press needs to call genocide by name, says Ahmed Alzoubi in Chile

In an 11-day program at Chilean universities, Ahmad Alzoubi — author of Palestinian Diaspora in Latin America: Studies on Media and Identity, by MEMO Publishers — discussed with journalists, academics, and students the harmful effects of shallow media coverage of events in Palestine. To Alzoubi, detached from direct Palestinian sources, newspapers and networks disseminate a so-called “war”, underpinning a narrative that normalizes genocide. “The Latin American mainstream media avoids this word [‘genocide’], echoing US and European agencies, which conform with Zionist lobbies,” says Alzoubi. In his book, based on his doctoral thesis, Alzoubi addresses the relationship between diasporic communities and information coming from Palestine. The author notes that current generations of descendants of immigrants who arrived in the last century […]