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When will progressive media acknowledge and condemn US enabled genocide in Gaza?

April 14, 2025 AIMN Editorial By Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

When will the progressive media – namely the popular Rachael Maddow, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O’Donnell – acknowledge and condemn US enabled genocide in Gaza?

Every night millions of progressives and folks of good will tune in to these three MSNBC progressive stalwarts thirsting for moral clarity on the critical issues America, indeed humanity faces.

And every night for the past 560 days, Maddow, Hayes and O’Donnell have blotted out discussion of the most critical issue that should be Story One every night: the US enabled Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.

It commenced the day after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel which provided Netanyahu the perfect casus belli to implement his long-sought goal: extending Greater Israel. It has destroyed every semblance of life for the remaining two million Palestinians not among the likely hundred thousand already dead.

It’s entering its final phase since Israel broke the temporary ceasefire to resume relentless bombing. Over 5,000 Palestinians have been killed, wounded in the three weeks since. An average of 100 Palestinian children are obliterated daily. Israel has blocked all food, humanitarian aid and electricity to Gaza. Its military has seized half of Gaza and made two thirds “no go” zones for Palestinians seeking refuge. Soon all the Palestinians in Gaza will be dead or gone.

None of this could occur without America’s tens of billions in weapons, and US vetoes of UN resolutions to end the genocide, and the US’s refusal to support the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Netanyahu among other unrelenting support.

Instead of arresting indicted war criminal Netanyahu at the White House, Trump welcomed him to cooperate on plans to remove every Palestinian from Gaza, sending them to Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Somaliland or whatever dumping ground they can secure. It’s the most grisly genocidal ethnic cleansing since WWII.

Yet, night after night, while the slaughter goes on, Maddow, Hayes and O’Donnell and every pretend decent journalist on mainstream news turns away from the genocide occurring right before their eyes.

When will Maddow, Hayes, O’Donnell and the others acknowledge and condemn the US enabled genocide in Gaza? Likely never, for reasons they demur to offer.

Any journalist who ignores what is happening in Gaza might one day be haunted by their decision to keep their eyes wide shut.

April 16, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | media