the narrative can't justify evil. the narrative is evil. 

 

What the media’s uncritical promotion of Israel’s “Hamas as savages” narrative has achieved is something sinister – and all too familiar from the West’s long colonial history. It has been used to demonise a whole people, presenting them either as barbarians or as the willing protectors and enablers of barbarism. 

Jonathan Cook, What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7