The New York Times:
"Who’s a ‘Colonizer’? How an Old Word Became a New Weapon ...

Within three months, in November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181 calling for the establishment of two states. On this basis, in May 1948, the State of Israel came into being. Five Arab states immediately invaded in an attempt to eradicate the newborn intruder, as they saw it; that attempt continues to this day in the form of Hamas."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/europe/colonialist-word-gaza-ukraine.html

-->The article is well worth reading, until it gets to the Nakba. That is just left out. 750,000 people ethnically cleansed from their land just didn't make it into the final version of this article. Attacks on Israel by its Arab neighbors did, although it was distorted. But not the Nakba.  Zionism is based on leaving important parts of history out. Hamas' recent attack on Israel seemed to come from nowhere. That's because the last 75 years of colonial oppression and savagery are always just left out, at least in our corporate media.

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Common Dreams:
"The NYT Is Fanning the Flames of a Fake Outrage. When covering right-wing claims of antisemitism on campus, reporters for an ostensibly liberal paper should be looking at what is actually being said and what is actually happening.

University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses. But it is a concocted outrage that has nothing to do with safeguarding Jewish students, and The New York Times is going along for the ride. ...

The Times (12/6/23) reported the story under the headline, 'College Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism,' with the subhead: 'The leaders of Harvard, MIT, and Penn appeared to evade questions about whether students should be disciplined if they call for the genocide of Jews.' ...

But there are two big problems with the Times‘ framing: The calls for genocide were imaginary, and the presidents’ answers were not evasive, they were accurate reflections of the constitutional protections of free speech and the scope of university policies on harassment and bullying."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nyt-fake-outrage-campus-antisemitism

-->Antisemitism is being used on the nation's campuses to deprive students and faculty their free speech rights. No college student has called for the genocide of Jews. The story is being used to draw attention away from the real genocide going on in Gaza.

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Common Dreams:
"Progressive U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers to questions about the Facebook and Instagram parent company's alleged suppression of pro-Palestinian content during the ongoing Israeli obliteration of Gaza.

'Over 90 human rights and civil society organizations have raised alarm about Meta's reported suppression, filtering, and mistranslation of Palestine-related content over the past two months, calling on the company to provide additional transparency as to content moderation and to address discriminatory algorithmic design,' Warren wrote.

The senator is seeking clarification regarding documented occurrences on Facebook and Instagram of censorship of pro-Palestinian content, labeling the Palestinian flag as 'potentially offensive,' and translating the words 'Palestinian' and 'Alhamdulilah'—Arabic for 'praise be to God'—as 'Palestinian terrorist.' 

'Even more concerning, Meta reportedly manipulated its content filters to apply stricter standards to content generated in Palestine compared to the standards in place in the rest of the region and the world,' Warren noted.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/facebook-censorship

-->The nation's media plays down the censorship of Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. With colleges shutting down free speech, and the internet omitting Palestinian voices, maybe the US led genocide in Gaza will disappear.