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In recent weeks, two pivotal events abuse, while a big news network starts
occurred within the United States' political showing the horrifying consequences of
and media machinery that, while those same abuses? But it's not really a
seemingly unconnected, reveal profound contradiction, it is a moment of narrative
cracks in the West’s ability to control the crisis. The structures which once
narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict. monopolized moral framing are having a
First, the U.S. put sanctions on Francesca hard time keeping things consistent.
Albanese, the United Nations Special These events aren't opposites; they’re
Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian symptoms of a collapsing system of
Territories accusing her of antisemitism narrative control.
and hostility toward the U.S. and Israel.
Then, just days later, CNN showed a
graphic video of the aftermath of deadly
attacks near aid distribution sites in Gaza.
The video showed dead civilians who were
killed while waiting for food. This was a
big change for CNN, since they usually
don't show much about what the Israeli
military does.
At first, these two things seem to go Francesca Albanese is being penalized for
against each other. Why would the U.S. saying what many lawyers and human
punish someone for exposing Israeli rights people have been saying for a
while.
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