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Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name

Shupak, Gregory
http://fair.org/home/media-afraid-to-call-ethnic-cleansing-by-its-name/

Publisher:  FAIR
Date Written:  20/02/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

Recent coverage of Gaza and the West Bank illustrates that, while corporate media occasionally outright call for expelling Palestinians from their land, more often the way these outlets support ethnic cleansing is by declining to call it ethnic cleansing.

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I used the news media aggregator Factiva to survey coverage of Trump's remarks from the day that he first made them, February 4 through February 12. In that period, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post combined to run 145 pieces with the words "Gaza" and "Trump." Of these, 19 contained the term "ethnic cleansing" or a variation on the phrase. In other words, 87% of the articles these outlets published on Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza chose not to call it ethnic cleansing.

A handful of other pieces used language that captures the wanton criminality of Trump's scheme reasonably well. Three articles used "forced displacement," or slight deviations from the word, while five others used "expel" and another nine used "expulsion." Two of the articles said "forced transfer," or a minor variation of that. In total, therefore, 38 of the 145 articles (26 percent) employ "ethnic cleansing" or the above-mentioned terms to communicate to readers that Trump wants to make Palestinians leave their homes so that the US can take Gaza from them.

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