In this interview with Khalil Kawtharany and Karim al-Amine, Arab academic Ali Kadri offers a searing indictment of imperialism’s logic in the Global South: war, waste, and the commodification of death.
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Newsroom leaders' top-down control over what gets published is nothing new. @laubast.bsky.social prev. investigated how newsrooms killed stories on Israel's genocide in Gaza. “The way they killed my material was violent to me … emotionally triggering & unethical," said photojournalist Eman Mohammed.
I spoke with Rana Sharif from the Palestinian Feminist Collective, Basil Farraj who oversees @palestinestudies.bsky.social’s prisoners database, and Dr. Lara Sheehi about the systemic sexual violence used by Israel’s carceral regime.
For @prismreports.org, read: prismreports.org/2025/11/18/p...
By enforcing draconian media censorship laws, Israel is seeking to control the narrative.
@laubast.bsky.social explains 2 of its recent major media bans: barring foreign press from Gaza & prohibiting foreign broadcasters, mainly Al Jazeera, from operating.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
As part of my fellowship with @palestinestudies.bsky.social, I help with the documentation of the media and journalism related to Palestine. I'll be your editor for the series, sign up!
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“I wished for death every moment. [...] I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew & laughing.”
Testimonies reveal rape & torture in Israeli prisons, @laubast.bsky.social reports. Israel’s carceral regime inflicts systemic sexual violence on Palestinians, advocates & experts say.
Last week, Prism published a monthslong investigation by @laubast.bsky.social in partnership with Visualizing Palestine, that reveals how the Palestine exception functions within mainstream U.S. newsrooms.🧵
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Israel’s carceral regime inflicts systemic sexual violence on Palestinians, advocates and experts say
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A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023
“Palestinians thought that by showcasing all of our vulnerabilities online, by sharing our grief, we’d [get] empathy; people would interfere, would move,” she says. “But it [was] the complete opposite: social media helped dehumanise Palestinians.”
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In Gaza, survival unfolds alongside a fight to be seen in a digital world increasingly shaped and manipulated by algorithms.
The most heart breaking part is this kind of "journalism" high up editor logic is NOT unique to Weiss. I wish you could've heard what I heard when my work was killed, silenced, suppressed and silenced (or at best, just criticized).
It's eerily familiar. In some ways identical.
We're looking to commission a writer for our Press on Palestine blog series to write the monthly roundup highlighting bias in mainstream American reporting on Palestine. You will be required to monitor the news cycle and write one monthly roundup.
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"True journalism is the act of documenting history as it disrupts the present." — @laubast.bsky.social
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Bari Weiss, cont'd: "I held that story because it wasn't ready. The story presented very powerful testimony of abuse in CECOT, but that testimony has already been reported... The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison... we simply need to do more."
