Gaza: How The Media Manufactures Consent with Hamza Yusuf

To help us unpick the relationship between Western foreign policy and media our guest this week is Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist whose work focuses on Palestine. He has reported on daily life under occupation for Palestinians, including home demolitions and forced expulsion and the conditions for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. He is an investigative journalist at Declassified amongst other publications.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
3:00 – The narrative of genocide
5:10 – A Reckoning?
6:49 – Mainstream media
8:55 – Case studies
18:45 – Media coordination
24:25 – Some sympathetic voices
26:24 – A free press?
30:47 – Racism?
34:34 – Social media?
37:20 – Change in western perceptions?
39:33 – A pariah state?
41:27 – Hamza’s work
47:00 – Muslims in journalism
49:49 – Money for independent media
51:42 – Alternative media