In LCI, saying “genocide” is enough to have the floor cut

ByMuhammad

On LCI, the word “genocide” always seems too much. When the big reporter Gallagher Fenwick talks about the situation in Gaza by using this term, the journalist David Doukhan cut him immediately: “The term genocide is controversial … Not everyone considers that it is appropriate. An immediate reaction which contrasts with his usual silence in the face of certain pro-Israeli guests, which he lets their speech unwind without ever taking them back, even when they openly legitimate the massacres committed in Gaza.

When Gallagher Fenwick mentions the daily survey Haaretzin which several Israeli soldiers claim to have been ordered to shoot crowds of civilians gathered around aid distribution centers, Doukhan sweeps the reference: ” Haaretzit is an extreme left journal. A barely veiled way of associating it with “Islamo-leftists”, according to the vocabulary now well established in certain media circles. Gallagher Fenwick then recalls that these Israeli journalists “do their job”, by questioning soldiers sometimes with an open face, and by publishing facts that many would prefer to ignore. “This independent press must be celebrated,” he says. But on LCI, it is not the disturbing facts. This is the word to name them.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.