The Israeli government has also destroyed at least:
• 20% of the bakeries in Gaza
• 51% of educational facilities (which were just being used as shelters anyway – right now, 0% of children in Gaza have access to education according to the UN)
• 16 hospitals and 32 health care centers
• 3 churches and 56 mosques
This isn’t just about the right to housing, the Israeli government is committing urbicide – the premeditated and deliberate destruction of cities. What’s worse, winter is coming. Millions of Palestinians who have been pushed from their homes will now have to face the weather without a roof above their heads. Some of them are now in refugee camps – those are places to live but they’re nowhere to have a life.
Source: A photo of Gaza city, taken on September 2, 2021. The data comes from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs which verifies numbers from the Gazan Ministry of Public Works and Housing.
The Israeli government has also destroyed at least:
• 20% of the bakeries in Gaza
• 51% of educational facilities (which were just being used as shelters anyway – right now, 0% of children in Gaza have access to education according to the UN)
• 16 hospitals and 32 health care centers
• 3 churches and 56 mosques
This isn’t just about the right to housing, the Israeli government is committing urbicide – the premeditated and deliberate destruction of cities. What’s worse, winter is coming. Millions of Palestinians who have been pushed from their homes will now have to face the weather without a roof above their heads. Some of them are now in refugee camps – those are places to live but they’re nowhere to have a life.
Source: A photo of Gaza city, taken on September 2, 2021. The data comes from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs which verifies numbers from the Gazan Ministry of Public Works and Housing.
When people like me speak about Palestine, it’s easy to dismiss our voices as opinions that are simply based on identity. But many of us were exposed to different sources of information – I was raised in a household where my parents regularly consumed western news as well as news from countries that recognized that Gaza and the West Bank are in Palestine and produced journalism with that recognition in mind.
Sources: UN member statements, NYT Stylebook and AP Stylebook
When people like me speak about Palestine, it’s easy to dismiss our voices as opinions that are simply based on identity. But many of us were exposed to different sources of information – I was raised in a household where my parents regularly consumed western news as well as news from countries that recognized that Gaza and the West Bank are in Palestine and produced journalism with that recognition in mind.
Sources: UN member statements, NYT Stylebook and AP Stylebook
When people like me speak about Palestine, it’s easy to dismiss our voices as opinions that are simply based on identity. But many of us were exposed to different sources of information – I was raised in a household where my parents regularly consumed western news as well as news from countries that recognized that Gaza and the West Bank are in Palestine and produced journalism with that recognition in mind.
Sources: UN member statements, NYT Stylebook and AP Stylebook
When people like me speak about Palestine, it’s easy to dismiss our voices as opinions that are simply based on identity. But many of us were exposed to different sources of information – I was raised in a household where my parents regularly consumed western news as well as news from countries that recognized that Gaza and the West Bank are in Palestine and produced journalism with that recognition in mind.
Sources: UN member statements, NYT Stylebook and AP Stylebook
Same numbers, three different perspectives. I’m trying to find ways to show what’s hidden from view.
Source: Ministry of Health, Gaza
Same numbers, three different perspectives. I’m trying to find ways to show what’s hidden from view.
Source: Ministry of Health, Gaza
Same numbers, three different perspectives. I’m trying to find ways to show what’s hidden from view.
Source: Ministry of Health, Gaza
Won a Pulitzer, gave it away.
The fourth slide is from an interview that was released last night about journalistic censorship of Palestine. Please go listen (it’s called Longform – in my bio). We spoke for four hours and it was pretty agonizing.
The day before the Pulitzer ceremony, I went to buy a dress from a Palestinian store in Brooklyn. When I walked in, the store owner and her family were sitting around a television, watching the news in silence but their grief was so loud that I was ashamed to interrupt. This beautiful dress and abaya also came with a matching hijab for $65 total – I hope that’s a price point that means a lot of you reading this can go and support Diana’s Fashion World in Bay Ridge (full disclosure, I added the slit myself 😈).
I’m grateful I got the chance to celebrate this prize back in May with the people who worked on this project with me. And, as I explain in the podcast, I remain ridiculously grateful to every one of you reading this who has supported my work by sharing it with others. You’re the reason I’ve got the strength to continue speaking, writing and drawing freely.
Won a Pulitzer, gave it away.
The fourth slide is from an interview that was released last night about journalistic censorship of Palestine. Please go listen (it’s called Longform – in my bio). We spoke for four hours and it was pretty agonizing.
The day before the Pulitzer ceremony, I went to buy a dress from a Palestinian store in Brooklyn. When I walked in, the store owner and her family were sitting around a television, watching the news in silence but their grief was so loud that I was ashamed to interrupt. This beautiful dress and abaya also came with a matching hijab for $65 total – I hope that’s a price point that means a lot of you reading this can go and support Diana’s Fashion World in Bay Ridge (full disclosure, I added the slit myself 😈).
I’m grateful I got the chance to celebrate this prize back in May with the people who worked on this project with me. And, as I explain in the podcast, I remain ridiculously grateful to every one of you reading this who has supported my work by sharing it with others. You’re the reason I’ve got the strength to continue speaking, writing and drawing freely.
Won a Pulitzer, gave it away.
The fourth slide is from an interview that was released last night about journalistic censorship of Palestine. Please go listen (it’s called Longform – in my bio). We spoke for four hours and it was pretty agonizing.
The day before the Pulitzer ceremony, I went to buy a dress from a Palestinian store in Brooklyn. When I walked in, the store owner and her family were sitting around a television, watching the news in silence but their grief was so loud that I was ashamed to interrupt. This beautiful dress and abaya also came with a matching hijab for $65 total – I hope that’s a price point that means a lot of you reading this can go and support Diana’s Fashion World in Bay Ridge (full disclosure, I added the slit myself 😈).
I’m grateful I got the chance to celebrate this prize back in May with the people who worked on this project with me. And, as I explain in the podcast, I remain ridiculously grateful to every one of you reading this who has supported my work by sharing it with others. You’re the reason I’ve got the strength to continue speaking, writing and drawing freely.
Won a Pulitzer, gave it away.
The fourth slide is from an interview that was released last night about journalistic censorship of Palestine. Please go listen (it’s called Longform – in my bio). We spoke for four hours and it was pretty agonizing.
The day before the Pulitzer ceremony, I went to buy a dress from a Palestinian store in Brooklyn. When I walked in, the store owner and her family were sitting around a television, watching the news in silence but their grief was so loud that I was ashamed to interrupt. This beautiful dress and abaya also came with a matching hijab for $65 total – I hope that’s a price point that means a lot of you reading this can go and support Diana’s Fashion World in Bay Ridge (full disclosure, I added the slit myself 😈).
I’m grateful I got the chance to celebrate this prize back in May with the people who worked on this project with me. And, as I explain in the podcast, I remain ridiculously grateful to every one of you reading this who has supported my work by sharing it with others. You’re the reason I’ve got the strength to continue speaking, writing and drawing freely.
These repeated attacks on medical facilities “should be investigated as war crimes” according to Human Rights Watch.
These repeated attacks on medical facilities “should be investigated as war crimes” according to Human Rights Watch.
I wanted to find out which members of Congress are profiting from the killing of people in Gaza. This was hard to do – the illustration shows all purchases and sales by current members of weapons stock where the deal was worth more than $1,000. But it only covers the period 2020-2023 and only includes five companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon).
This illustration also does not show the millions of dollars spent by these companies in campaign contributions to politicians in order to help secure future contracts. There’s a wide range here because representatives don’t have to disclose the specific amount of their trading, they instead state an estimate and that’s what gets published in the record.
Source: US House Financial Disclosure Form
I wanted to find out which members of Congress are profiting from the killing of people in Gaza. This was hard to do – the illustration shows all purchases and sales by current members of weapons stock where the deal was worth more than $1,000. But it only covers the period 2020-2023 and only includes five companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon).
This illustration also does not show the millions of dollars spent by these companies in campaign contributions to politicians in order to help secure future contracts. There’s a wide range here because representatives don’t have to disclose the specific amount of their trading, they instead state an estimate and that’s what gets published in the record.
Source: US House Financial Disclosure Form
Right now, there’s an Israeli-imposed media blackout in Palestine, so these numbers matter more than ever. Palestinian journalists have either been murdered (at least 24 so far) or else they’re silenced by the disconnection of phone and internet access, so the international press needs to do better.
Sources: This data was compiled and analyzed by Holly Jackson, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The data on deaths is from OCHA. She chose these three publications because she found that they were among the most read news sources in the United States. I’m going to link to her original data in my stories.
These simple numbers (based on thousands of articles) reveal some complicated facts. The New York Times has covered the violence in Palestine and Israel more than any other major US publication (and has done a better job now of considering Palestinian lives worthy of journalism than at any other time I can remember) but it’s still flawed. And depressingly, it’s less flawed than the Wall Street Journal or the Washington post.
The coverage on Palestine and Israel is deeply skewed for lots of reasons. Bias can come out in the editing process even more than the writing process so don’t just blame the person with the byline. But it’s also because the Israeli government has a larger and more effective communications and press team than the Palestinian authorities could ever have. Every time that the Israeli authorities put out a statement, journalists report on it. Palestinians just don’t have the resources to be issuing so many statements, especially right now.
Journalists have to work really hard to make sure that we’re not just listening to the people with louder voices.
Right now, there’s an Israeli-imposed media blackout in Palestine, so these numbers matter more than ever. Palestinian journalists have either been murdered (at least 24 so far) or else they’re silenced by the disconnection of phone and internet access, so the international press needs to do better.
Sources: This data was compiled and analyzed by Holly Jackson, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The data on deaths is from OCHA. She chose these three publications because she found that they were among the most read news sources in the United States. I’m going to link to her original data in my stories.
These simple numbers (based on thousands of articles) reveal some complicated facts. The New York Times has covered the violence in Palestine and Israel more than any other major US publication (and has done a better job now of considering Palestinian lives worthy of journalism than at any other time I can remember) but it’s still flawed. And depressingly, it’s less flawed than the Wall Street Journal or the Washington post.
The coverage on Palestine and Israel is deeply skewed for lots of reasons. Bias can come out in the editing process even more than the writing process so don’t just blame the person with the byline. But it’s also because the Israeli government has a larger and more effective communications and press team than the Palestinian authorities could ever have. Every time that the Israeli authorities put out a statement, journalists report on it. Palestinians just don’t have the resources to be issuing so many statements, especially right now.
Journalists have to work really hard to make sure that we’re not just listening to the people with louder voices.
Right now, there’s an Israeli-imposed media blackout in Palestine, so these numbers matter more than ever. Palestinian journalists have either been murdered (at least 24 so far) or else they’re silenced by the disconnection of phone and internet access, so the international press needs to do better.
Sources: This data was compiled and analyzed by Holly Jackson, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The data on deaths is from OCHA. She chose these three publications because she found that they were among the most read news sources in the United States. I’m going to link to her original data in my stories.
These simple numbers (based on thousands of articles) reveal some complicated facts. The New York Times has covered the violence in Palestine and Israel more than any other major US publication (and has done a better job now of considering Palestinian lives worthy of journalism than at any other time I can remember) but it’s still flawed. And depressingly, it’s less flawed than the Wall Street Journal or the Washington post.
The coverage on Palestine and Israel is deeply skewed for lots of reasons. Bias can come out in the editing process even more than the writing process so don’t just blame the person with the byline. But it’s also because the Israeli government has a larger and more effective communications and press team than the Palestinian authorities could ever have. Every time that the Israeli authorities put out a statement, journalists report on it. Palestinians just don’t have the resources to be issuing so many statements, especially right now.
Journalists have to work really hard to make sure that we’re not just listening to the people with louder voices.
75 days compared to 75 years
About 1.9 million people in Gaza have been displaced since October 7 (that’s over 85% of the total population). But this conflict didn’t start on October 7. Most Gazans were already refugees – 1.7 million of them had been pushed out of their homes and villages *before* October. Now, they’re refugees for the second time (at least).
Source: United Nations, 2023 (note that this is probably an underestimate. Not everyone registers with the United Nations as a refugee, so the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has a higher total number of 6.4 million)
Western powers will work hard to protect colonialism and apartheid. Of all the times that the United States has used its veto power at the United Nations, half were to protect Israel from being held accountable.
Source: United Nations Library.
Western powers will work hard to protect colonialism and apartheid. Of all the times that the United States has used its veto power at the United Nations, half were to protect Israel from being held accountable.
Source: United Nations Library.
Western powers will work hard to protect colonialism and apartheid. Of all the times that the United States has used its veto power at the United Nations, half were to protect Israel from being held accountable.
Source: United Nations Library.