Hello Hello and welcome, I'm particularly delighted to be joined today by Adam Johnson.

He is a brilliant, I suppose dissident journalist in lots of ways.

He's the host of the Citations Needed Podcast you check that out also has a sub sack where he talks

Part I suppose about critiquing the Western media

So I think no better person discussed the topic today and I suppose the reason I'm

to talk about this is there's two pillars of what I would describe as Western

complicity with the horrific atrocity now being committed by the state of Israel.

There's the direct Western support, military, obviously arms, diplomatic, political support.

And there is, the other pillar is the Western media and there's two strands of that

thing which is a just overtly cheerleading for this atrocity but the other is a failure

to call out what is actually happening, to use the proper

terminology to describe actual crimes being committed, muddying the waters that kind of thing.

I just want to start just as an example this week, Benjamin Netanyahu,

ethnic cleansing. I just want to your thoughts, just explain what's happened and the way the media have

discussed that or just not discuss that.

Well, yeah, so I wrote about this yesterday because, you know, part of part a lot of media criticism is simply

pointing out things people saying comparing out to how it's covered in a very

simple way and saying there's a disconnect here.

So Israeli leaders and Benjamin Dan Yahoo chief among them, obviously the most powerful person in Israel,

pretty much my entire lifetime,

obviously the Prime Minister of Israel.

He is, he has. obviously the prime minister of Israel. He has openly acknowledged that they are

...