The Listening Post

Mohammed el-Kurd, writer and journalist on Palestinian resistance and Western media's warped coverage, discusses the ICJ ruling's impact on media coverage of Gaza. The podcast also explores the challenges faced in reporting on Israel's actions in Gaza, the biased coverage of the Ram Temple issue in Indian media, and the potential implications of the temple's consecration on Indian secularism.

The ICJ hearings have drawn scorn as well as shock from Israel’s media punditry. In the West, however, the case has emboldened journalists to ask tougher questions of the Israeli narrative.Lead contributors:Oren Ziv - Reporter, +972 MagazineMouin Rabbani - Co-editor, JadaliyyaSelma Carmey - Human rights lawyerGideon Levy - Columnist, HaaretzDaniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project; Former Israeli political adviserOn our radar:Australia’s public broadcaster- ABC - fired a radio host after she shared a report on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis to her social media. Meenakshi Ravi reports on a leak showing a pro-Israel pressure group may have been involved.Feature: Top marks for FinlandFinland’s educational drive around media literacy offers a model for educators, broadcasters and countries around the world.Feature contributors:Leo Pekkala - Deputy director, National Audiovisual InstituteMari Vesanummi - Media education producer, YLEValtteri Kela - Finnish language teacher, Helsinki French Finnish SchoolValentina Uitto - History teacher, Helsinki French Finnish School

With the International Court of Justice deliberating over South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, we look at how the proceedings could affect reporting on the war.Contributors:Qaanitah Hunter - Journalist, News24Nimer Sultany - Editor-in-Chief, The Palestine Yearbook of International LawDaniel Levy - President, US/Middle East ProjectTony Leon - Political commentatorOn our radar:In Ecuador, masked gang members break into the studio of the state broadcaster, firing at staff and taking hostages. Tariq Nafi explains the country’s gang violence crisis and why the media has become a target.Feature - Sudan: 2023’s Forgotten WarThousands killed, millions displaced - the crisis in Sudan continues unabated and underreported. Two Sudanese journalists reflect on the coverage of Sudan’s civil war.Contributors:Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Editor, Eyes on SudanIsma’il Kushkush - Sudanese-American journalistSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ajlisteningpostFind us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ajlisteningpostCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #SouthAfrica #News

After three months of destruction, displacement and the killing of Palestinians, we take a deep dive into the way the Gaza story has been covered.Since the attacks on October 7, The Listening Post has interviewed a range of experts on the news coverage – what’s missing in it, and how it has helped enable the crimes being waged on Palestinians in Gaza.In this special edition, we’ve compiled three interviews – with one journalist, one expert on human rights and another on digital rights. They talk us through the way the media – through their news coverage – have helped pave the way to a genocide.Contributors:Francesca Albanese – United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesMarwa Fatafta – MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access NowMariam Barghouti – Writer and journalist

In 17 years of The Listening Post, we have never seen a story anything like Israel’s war on Gaza.It has been a turning point for the world order as we know it and its media ecosystem – which is why, since October 7, we have covered nothing else.In this special edition, we compiled our reporting on the Gaza war over the past 12 weeks. The extent of the brutality, a genocide unfolding in plain sight; the sheer volume of disinformation, designed to defend the indefensible; and the complicity of so many Western news outlets – repeatedly exposed for failing to question Israeli propaganda, then spreading it.Contributors:Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - Professor of Modern Culture & Media, Brown UniversityAzad Essa - Author, Hostile HomelandsDaniel Levy - President, US/Middle East ProjectOrly Noy - Journalist, Human Rights AdvocateOmar Al-Ghazzi - Associate Professor of Media & Communications, London School of EconomicsRami Younis - Journalist; Former host On the Other Hand, Makan 33Ramzy Baroud - Editor-in-Chief, Palestine ChronicleSarah Leah Whitson - Executive Director, DAWNSwasti Rao - Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies & AnalysesYara Eid - Palestinian Journalist in GazaYumna Patel - Palestine News Director, MondoweissSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel’s military has now killed 97 journalists in the Strip. Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza, firsthand reporting on the onslaught there has been left to Palestinians already locked into the occupied territory - documenting their own genocide.Contributors:Amahl Bishara - Professor of anthropology, Tufts UniversityArwa Damon - Former senior international correspondent, CNNSari Bashi - Program director, Human Rights WatchWael Dahdouh - Gaza bureau chief, Al Jazeera ArabicOn our radar:The settler movement - which has placed 700,000 Israelis on the West Bank in complete contravention of international law - now has its eyes on Gaza. Producer Flo Phillips on Israeli developers' plans in post-war Gaza.The war in Gaza & the end times - the Christian Zionist view:Evangelicals in the United States - many of whom call themselves Christian Zionists - are some of the biggest supporters of Israel in the US, and they broadcast their support on TV and radio networks that have huge audiences.Contributors:Chrissy Stroop - Senior correspondent, Religion DispatchesMelani McAlister - Author, The Kingdom of God Has No BordersSarah Posner - Journalist and author, UnholySubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether it will make any difference.Contributors:Ariella Aisha Azoulay - Professor of Modern Culture & Media, Brown UniversityOmar Al-Ghazzi - Associate Professor of Media & Communications, LSERamzy Baroud - Editor-in-Chief, Palestine ChronicleYumna Patel - Palestine News Director, MondoweissOn our radar:Eighty-nine journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Producer Tariq Nafi on the targeting of journalists, and their families, in Gaza.Silenced and surveilled: Palestinian citizens of Israel:Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel have been arrested for social media posts criticising Israel’s assault on Gaza. Rami Younis talks about the clampdown on Israel’s Palestinian citizens.Contributor:Rami Younis - Journalist, Former host of ‘On the Other Hand’, Makan 33Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

More than 60 days into the Israel-Gaza war, two Israeli news outlets - +972 magazine and Local Call - published a report on The Gospel, a new artificial intelligence system deployed in Gaza.The AI helps generate new targets at an unprecedented rate, allowing the Israeli military to loosen its already permissive constraints on the killing of civilians.Contributors:Marwa Fatafta - MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access NowOmar Shakir - Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights WatchSophia Goodfriend - JournalistTal Mimran - Former legal adviser, Israeli Ministry of Justice and Israeli militaryOn our radar:The exchange of hostages between Israel and Hamas late last month created some challenges for the Netanyahu government - and its messaging. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks at how Israeli media has been reporting on the story.Mariam Barghouti: “The media is complicit in the Gaza war”:As the world is focused on the events unfolding in Gaza, Israel has also escalated its attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where Hamas has no authority or military presence. Journalist Mariam Barghouti joins us to discuss the intensification of surveillance technologies, the clamp down on speech and the rise of violence in the West Bank.Contributor:Mariam Barghouti - Palestinian Writer and JournalistSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

If the United States has aided and abetted Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the European Union’s role has been one of quiet complicity.In a special edition of The Listening Post, we examine the discourse around the conflict in three EU countries: Germany, where shows of support for the Palestinians have been heavily suppressed; France, where television news channels have distorted the debate to suit their own agendas; and the outlier that is Ireland, where there has been probing criticism of Israel’s actions - from politicians and in the media.Segment 1: GermanyContributors:Hanno Hauenstein - Journalist and former editor Berliner ZeitungWieland Hoban - Chair, Jewish Voice for PeaceHebh Jamal - Palestinian journalistSegment 2: FranceContributors:Rima Hassan - International Lawyer and President, Refugee Camps ObservatoryThomas Legrand - Radio Host, France InterDaniel Schneidermann - Founder & Columnist, Arrêt Sur Images and Columnist, LibérationSegment 3: IrelandContributors:Brendan Ciarán Browne - Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Fellow of Trinity College DublinUna Mullally - Columnist, The Irish TimesShona Murray - Europe Correspondent, EuronewsSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

Forty-eight days of bloodshed later, a truce lasting 96 hours - between Israel and Hamas - has come into effect, giving Palestinians in Gaza some temporary room to breathe. But in the information war, there is no ceasefire in sight.Contributors:Abboud Omar Hamayel – Academic, Birzeit UniversityHussein Ibish – Arab Gulf States InstituteMia Bloom – Professor, Georgia State UniversityShashank Joshi – Defence Editor, EconomistOn our radar:This past week has been one of the most devastating for journalists in Gaza. This, in a war that has already been described as the “deadliest period on record” for the media. Meenakshi Ravi has the details.Francesca Albanese: Western media living in ‘alternative reality’:In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. One exception has been Francesca Albanese - the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. She joins us for an interview on terminology, context and the blindspots of mainstream media.Contributor:Francesca Albanese - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied TerritoriesSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News