Manufacturing Consent for Genocide

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Assal Rad, author of Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide. We talked about how American media has covered Israel-Palestine, about recent efforts by Israel’s supporters to gain ownership of key institutions in American media, and about alternative media and how it is shaping the American foreign policy debate.We discuss:How the problem is not limited to Fox NewsThe methods employed by media that support IsraelHow the internet has changed our access and relationship to informationThe use and avoidance of terms like “genocide” and “Palestine”Contextualizing Oct 7th