On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, consciously and intentionally “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group.” The details provided are irresistibly persuasive, and point to Israel being in flagrant breach of both the Rome Statute, and Genocide Convention. In a truly just world, the mainstream media’s mass omertà on this landmark ruling would in itself be a criminal act.
If this is true then that's great news. Unfortunately the article seems to have been written by someone who is very clearly biased against Israel and not ashamed of airing that dirty laundry in public (which, fair enough, that describes me too, but I wouldn't trust me to write an unbiased article on the subject either) so I can't take this single source's word on it. I'll definitely keep an ear out in case any more reporting gets done on it from elsewhere.
Edit: To the people downvoting and replying to this: please read past the 'biased against Israel' part - especially to the bit where I say that I am also biased against Israel - before assuming that I'm some pro-Israel shill here.
SMH you do one ethnic cleansing and suddenly all the woke journalists are biased against you /s
Unbiased reporting (or unbiased anything for that matter) doesn't exist. The sooner people realize that, the sooner they'll stop letting the imperial media pull the wool over their eyes.
You can avoid having your war crimes listed by not committing war crimes. Hope this helps!
This one weird trick
You can avoid grossly misunderstanding the point of someone's comment by reading the whole thing, too.
Wheter you acknowledge it or not, all media is biased. Why should someone be ashamed of being biased against genocide? Frankly, framing it as "airing dirty laundry" is beyond disingenous, straight up evil. Fuck off.
As is any decent person who's been paying close enough attention.
Not all biases are bad, and being biased against a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide is an excellent proof of that.
Having a bias against the Israeli government is having a bias in favor of accuracy and against atrocious human rights violations.
Did you not catch this part?
I'm not saying the bias is a problem in general, it's just a problem for the trustworthiness of the reporting because they could be reading stuff into the source material that isn't there.
And I'm saying that you're wrong. Everyone has biases, and my comment above still applies when you're writing about it.
I'd trust reporting that's clearly biased in favor of the truth over the mealy mouthed forced neutrality of main stream sources any day.
Yes, which is why I try to get my news from more than one source so that I can tell whether or not it's just someone reading something into a thing that wasn't actually there or if multiple people with different perspectives have seen the same thing.
Can't take anyone seriously unless they're fair and balanced towards a genocidal military dictatorship.
Fortunately, they link to the original material.
Also can't take anyone seriously who can't read the comment they're replying to.
Did you not catch this part?
I am also biased against Israel, for what I feel ought to be some pretty self-evident reasons, but a single highly biased source reporting something is not news.
Yeah, fair enough, I just wasn't up for reading the ~50 page report myself to find out if what they said was true.
You could Ctrl+F to find the relevant bits fairly easily.
But this demand isn't skeptical, it is cynical. "I don't believe you because I'm offended by your tone" is miles away from "I don't believe you because I haven't seen enough evidence".
Bias is when you report the court ruling, the more you report the court ruling the more bias you have.
I guess you guys are ditching the strategy of denying the genocide now, and moving on to "biased tone" or some shit idk.
Did you not catch this part?
I am also biased against Israel, for what I feel ought to be some pretty self-evident reasons. Reading comprehension in the replies to my comment has been surprisingly low.
Respectfully, you don't know what bias means. The way you're using it reflects that.
I'm not biased against American conservatives if I say I am against trump. Having a position isn't a bias in itself.
Respectfully, you clearly don't know how I meant it.
I am biased against Israel because I do not judge it impartially. I tend to assume the worst about it (which I believe is justified through many years of reading about the awful, awful shit it does to people), in a decision about which side gets the benefit of the doubt in some matter I will never give it to Israel, and I am disinclined to believe pretty much anything it says, even after I filter out the propaganda.
If that's not bias then apparently we're using different dictionaries. Try this one.
Crazy, ain't it? I'm pretty consistently amazed at the poor media literacy I find on Lemmy.
Israel is obviously perpetuating a genocide.
That being said, this source is not reliable due to obvious bias and/or being propaganda. When you see something like that you look for other sources that are fact based and dry.
It's weird, I see the same behaviours and fanaticism on Lemmy that I saw from Qs and f right wing nuts. Just coming from the left now. Fucking facts are getting hard to discern.
Judging from the number of downvotes my comment got, I guess I am too now.
And yeah, I've been calling it a genocide for more than a year now, but even I know not to take such a biased source's word without some corroborating reporting from elsewhere.