SPURIOUS EQUIVALENCE: THE ABSENCE OF ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION IN THE PRESS

SPURIOUS EQUIVALENCE: THE ABSENCE OF ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION IN THE PRESS
Recently, the Glasgow University Media Group released a study suggesting that press coverage obscures, rather than facilitates; popular understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This is perhaps best evidenced by the general failure of the press to describe the conflict within the accurate context of an occupation. Rather than presenting the conflict as one between an "occupier" and an "occupied," the conflict is presented as one between two equal parties with equal rights to "disputed" land that Israel "captured" in 1967.