A new dataset, 54,449 articles across eight major outlets, maps out what so many of us already feel in our bones: on purpose.. Palestine is disappeared
by mediabiasmeter.com/fram… via Marginalia Subversiva and thefreeonline at. https://t.me/thefreeonline/4613 on 23rd Nov 2025
Every genocide has an accomplice with ‘clean hands’. For Palestinians, that accomplice is Western media.
Story Ember leGaïe2d via Marginalia Subversiva
A new dataset, 54,449 articles across eight major outlets, maps out what so many of us already feel in our bones: Palestine is disappeared on purpose. Not by accident. Not by oversight. Not because the news cycle is “overwhelmed.” Because erasure is the editorial line.
This isn’t about one scandalized headline or one bad reporter. It’s the infrastructure. The architecture. The algorithm of empire dressed up as journalism.
And for two years straight, it has worked exactly as designed.
1. Palestine is treated like a rumor. Israel is treated like a nation.
At The New York Times, “Israel” appeared 186 times for every single mention of “Palestine.”
Not articles, headlines.
The emotional front door of the story.
Half the time “Palestine” shows up, it doesn’t even refer to Palestinians. It refers to Western protestors, almost always framed as violent, unruly, threatening.
When a people’s name appears only to criminalize solidarity, that isn’t journalism. It’s narrative warfare.
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2. The occupation is treated like an opinion.
“Illegal settlements,” the actual legal term, show up in less than 5% of references across all outlets.
Fifty-four thousand articles. Only three headlines used the phrase “illegal settlements.”
Three.
The theft of land becomes “construction.”
Colonization becomes “housing expansion.”
Armed settlers become “residents.”
This is how language launders violence: one missing adjective and a war crime becomes a zoning dispute.
3. October 7 is a drumbeat. The 2007 blockade is a whisper.
At Corriere della Sera, October 7 is mentioned 215 times for every one mention of the blockade.
At the BBC, the ratio is 104 to 1.
Eighteen years of siege, the entire lives of Gaza’s children erased.
One day elevated to divine scripture.
Context becomes optional only when the truth would indict the powerful.
4. The famine is happening in real time , but the media sees only “terror.”
As children starved in front of the world, as bodies shrank under blockade-induced hunger, coverage still leaned toward one word: terrorism.
Even in months when famine warnings were everywhere, “terrorism” dwarfed “famine,” “starvation,” or “hunger” in nearly every outlet.
Security for the colonizer always outranks survival for the colonized.
5. Precision is a lie told with confidence.
The phrase “precision strike(s)” appears 68 times at the New York Times alone.
If there is such a thing as a “precision strike,” the corpse count would prove it.
Instead, more than 168,000 Palestinians were killed in these “precise” attacks.
A genocide cannot be “targeted.”
A child cannot be collateral.
The language is engineered to make murder feel clinical.
6. Terrorism becomes the air readers breathe.
At the BBC and Le Monde, two-thirds of Gaza coverage includes terrorism terminology.
Repetition is persuasion.
Conditioning.
A drumbeat designed to make Palestinian life sound like a threat.
Once a population is framed as terrorists, their death becomes background noise. Their hunger becomes unfortunate. Their extermination becomes “self-defense.”
7. And the right to return, the core wound of this entire history, is nearly unspeakable.
Thirty-eight mentions.
Out of 54,449 articles.
The oldest refugee crisis on earth, and Western media treats return as a superstition. A ghost story. A taboo.
Israel’s “right to exist” is treated as sacred scripture.
Palestine’s right to exist is treated as dangerous.
That asymmetry isn’t accidental. It is the moral architecture of settler-colonial storytelling.
The takeaway is blunt:
The genocide wasn’t just enabled by bombs, siege, and U.S. weapons.
It was enabled by headlines.
Erasure is policy.
Narrative control is artillery.
Language is one of empire’s sharpest tools.
And what this dataset proves, beyond argument, beyond euphemism, is that Western media chose a side. Not passively. Not accidentally. Structurally.
This is not a media failure.
It’s a media function.
The question now is what we build in its place, and whose names we refuse to let disappear.
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