Palestinian journalists make a different choice: to confront not only bombs, but the violence of words, frames, and silences, and to insist on telling the truth of a people who refuse to disappear. What does ethical journalism look like when neutrality itself becomes complicit?

Under these conditions, claims of journalistic “neutrality” are not neutral. They can align with the logic of extermination by documenting destruction while withholding responsibility.

When the Palestinian body is targeted, journalism exposes what others omit. The killing of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh - raped and beaten to death in Israeli custody - was barely covered in Western media, with sexual violence often erased from the story.

The article shows how Gaza is framed as a target zone rather than a home, a “moral geography” where killing becomes a perceived necessity, not a crime.

It also documents ordinary life under siege: weddings during airstrikes, children playing football in alleyways, families baking bread when electricity is cut. These stories counter the claim that Palestinians exist outside “civilization”.

Palestinian journalism confronts these images directly. It names the dead one by one, replacing totals with lives, and refuses a grammar that erases responsibility.

This framing feeds recurring archetypes: the Palestinian who does not exist, the “savage” Palestinian, the Palestinian who must be killed, and the Palestinian body rendered a legitimate target.

At the level of political framing, Israeli leaders described the 2023–2024 war as a battle between “civilization” and “barbarism”. Yoav Gallant referred to Palestinians as “human animals”. Isaac Herzog declared: “It’s not just Hamas, it’s an entire nation”.

In much Western coverage, Palestinian deaths appear in the passive voice: “were killed,” “were found under rubble”. The actor of violence disappears from the sentence. By: Majd Jawad https://t.co/qoNhcamWsd

@FebrayerNetwork Safeguarding this digital archive is a political responsibility. It is central to documenting war, preserving historical truth, and resisting the enforced forgetting of Palestinian lives and experiences. A part of the dossier 'What is to be Done?' supported by @FebrayerNetwork

@FebrayerNetwork Beyond visibility, the article raises urgent questions about preservation. Thousands of digital testimonies from Gaza remain scattered across platforms, vulnerable to deletion or disappearance.

@FebrayerNetwork Palestinians adapted by developing creative strategies to bypass censorship: altering spellings, mixing Arabic and English characters, and using symbols like the watermelon emoji to reference the Palestinian flag when colours or names were restricted.

@FebrayerNetwork Since October 7, this suppression has deepened further, operating alongside surveillance, intimidation, and arrests, particularly targeting Palestinians living within the 1948 territories.

@FebrayerNetwork That visibility was quickly followed by intensified censorship. Palestinian content on Meta platforms was hidden, deleted, or shadow banned, sometimes triggered by basic political language such as the word “Palestine”.

@FebrayerNetwork A clear example came in 2021, during Israel’s assault on Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza, when Palestinian videos went viral on TikTok, revealing the power of digital platforms to amplify Palestinian narratives globally.

@FebrayerNetwork In response, Palestinians have used social media to document realities on the ground and bypass traditional media gatekeeping. Platforms like Instagram and TikTok became spaces to record daily life, destruction, and survival in real time.

For decades, Western mainstream media coverage of Palestine has relied on decontextualised language that strips violence of responsibility. Palestinians appear as numbers, while occupation, apartheid, and the Nakba remain largely absent. By: Dalia Alahmad https://t.co/CaeAXuMzko

Read the full visual essay by Soufiane Chinig on UntoldMag: https://t.co/r3Zzqb6onT A part of the dossier 'What is to be Done' supported by Febrayer Network. @ChinigSf  #Palestine #BerlineWalls #StreetArt #Censorship #PoliticsOfSolidarity #Berlin #Palestine #GermanPolitics

By documenting how Palestinian symbols are reinterpreted through pre-set frameworks, the essay shows how Berlin’s walls expose the limits and double standards of German remembrance culture and solidarity.

Symbols become sites of repression: the inverted red triangle was framed as a “Nazi reference,” and a doctoral student holding a “NEVER AGAIN” sign was arrested and had their poster confiscated.