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Israel committing "textbook case of genocide," holocaust historian says (www.newsweek.com)

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"We're seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent," said Raz Segal, an Israeli historian.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All western news is doing some strong work completely ignoring coverage of this narrative. Absolute fucking disgrace and travesty.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're commenting on a newsweek article, a western news media with a readership of 100 million.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are not 100 million dentists offices. No way that is their readership.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They're referring to monthly unique visitors on the Newsweek website. Print circulation was around 100k in 2015. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek)

For comparison (I make no claims it's a good one), the New York Times web site has around 240 million monthly unique visitors. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does that include all the visitors blocked by their paywall?

Edit: I'm referring to NYT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I only know what I gleaned from quick glance at their Wikipedia page, which says they have 8.6 million digital subscribers. So the 240 million figure includes non-subscribers who can run into paywalls, but I'm guessing the NYT might have some content that isn't paywalled, which complicates getting a sense of their 'reach'. Which is why I said I make no claims that it's a good comparison.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and how many of those are bots?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everything I'm reading is covering the Israeli war crimes and their condemnation from western countries. And it's mostly reporting from the west.

Maybe don't read for-profit journalism?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Everything I’m reading is covering the Israeli war crimes and their condemnation

Oh, you mean the slap-on-the-wrist heckling some liberals in the west are emanating? The Israelis must be shaking in their boots.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's not a condemnation at all. Look at the wording, it's phrased like whatever happens to the Palestinians is a natural disaster. A flooding or an earthquake.