Our next speaker is a journalist and writer who recently released an expose revealing

how coverage at the BBC is systematically biased towards Israel and accurate reporting

on Palestine is actively being censored.

Please give a warm welcome to Owen Jones. Friends, without the Western media, without its lies, its deflections, its airbrushing of the depraved

truth, Israel's genocide in Gaza would not have been possible.

So no crime in history, no crime has been so confessed to by its perpetrators, so unapologetically, so shamelessly, so proudly.

From the very start, Israel's leaders, they declared that Gaza's civilians were human animals, that an entire nation out there

was responsible as the President of Israel declared the essentials of life would be cut off,

that Gaza would be reduced to a city of tents.

They made clear over and over again they were going to wipe Gaza from

the face of the earth and wage war against its people. There was no better predictor of what

Israel would do to the Palestinian people than what they told the world they would do over and

over and over again and yet.

With courageous exceptions, the Western media conspired to suppress Israel's genocidal intent

while smearing the few with a platform who spoke out as dangerous, hateful extremists, turning the world upside

down. That's what they did and they are complicit in every death and every maiming.

They did not even try to pretend that they believed Palestinian life had even the smallest fraction of the

worth of an Israeli life or a Western life. They deferred to Israeli lives. They airbrushed atrocities.

They stripped away all contexts and started the clock on the 7th of October. They erased

Palestinian voices systematically. They muddied the waters,

they made false equivalences. We could go on. Again, we must say it loudly. Without the Western

media, this genocide would never have been possible. And look at what they normalized. The destruction of hospital,

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