There are so many moments when I’m grateful for The Intercept’s journalism, but perhaps none more so than when our team is covering the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
The occupation and land grabs make headlines in most U.S. media only when the air raids begin, obscuring the larger daily violence of military checkpoints, economic devastation, civilian suffering, and two-tiered laws.
But I’m not just proud of The Intercept’s attention to the ground-level experience of apartheid. Just as importantly, our team also exposes how Israeli and U.S. institutions weaponize baseless accusations of terrorism and antisemitism to undermine Palestinian human rights defenders, undermining the fight against very real escalations of antisemitism around the world.
This is just one of so many subjects where we need The Intercept’s challenge to the groupthink of political and corporate elites — especially with press freedom increasingly under assault and so many newsroom investigative budgets slashed to the bone.
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When violence escalated again this May, too many outlets reported on the crisis as if Hamas had started firing rockets out of nowhere.
That’s why I so appreciated Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill’s moral clarity in condemning “an asymmetric campaign of terror waged by a nuclear power against a people who have no state, no army, no air force, no navy, and an almost nonexistent civilian infrastructure.”
Likewise, Ryan Grim’s interview with Ramallah-based Palestinian American journalist Mariam Barghouti offered a gripping account of life and death in occupied Palestine:
“If you’ve been held in an open-air prison for 15 years, you’re gonna kick and scream and shout by any means possible and available to you. This focus on Hamas — because it is firing rockets, because it is using armed confrontation — is a disservice to the Palestinian people.”
When a ceasefire was announced, most Western media moved on. But if you read The Intercept, you learned that Israeli strikes in Gaza killed up to 192 civilians — 70 percent of them in attacks where civilians were the only victims.
This kind of critical coverage isn’t popular, and it isn’t easy to fund. That’s why we need nonprofit journalism willing to challenge any and every government, including the Israeli government — as well as the U.S. military-industrial complex.
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