An Israeli settler shot Palestinian Bilal Saleh in the chest as he and his family were harvesting their olives.

Palestinian Bilal Saleh was shot in the chest by an Israeli settler as he was harvesting his olive trees in al-Sawiya, occupied West Bank.

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    4419·
    8 months ago

    Al Jazeera are a rather quality news source, up there with some of the best for sure.

    And they’re no more biased towards their owner’s interests than any other source.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1535·
      8 months ago

      Al Jazeera are a rather quality news source, up there with some of the best for sure.

      You didn’t read the their mediabiascheck profile then. They’re decently reputable when it’s something that’s unrelated to Qatar, but once as something is Qatar, all their quality goes out the window.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        313·
        8 months ago

        That’s far from what you said in your first comment. Also, just because the source has a bias doesn’t mean that everything it says is a lie. In particular, this article includes video of Palestinian farmers being chased out of their fields by settlers.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          435·
          8 months ago

          So use an unbiased source that’s reporting on it and encourage neutrality with media consumption.

          • moonlit2107@lemm.eeEnglish
            243·
            8 months ago

            every single news source on the planet is biased. You either want everyone to only read news sources that you approve of or you don’t know what you’re talking about.

            • Hyperreality@kbin.social
              730·
              8 months ago

              Both Russia Today and Reuters are biased. Only someone who’s being disingenious or an idiot, would claim that means they’re equally biased or that it’s somehow close.

              Same thing for Al-Jazeera. Posting an Al-Jazeera link and/or defending their journalistic integrity, undermines any argument you then proceed to make.

              • moonlit2107@lemm.eeEnglish
                274·
                8 months ago

                Go back to school to learn how to read things with a critical lens instead of throwing away the most credible middle eastern news source. I’ll keep reading the one of the only news sources that opposes the mainstream, pro-israeli narrative.

                • Hyperreality@kbin.social
                  322·
                  8 months ago

                  Al-Jazeera isn’t anti-Israel. It’s pro-Islamist/Hamas. Even the Palestinian authority in the West Bank has complained about it:

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

                  Oh, and before you continue to make excuses for Hamas and pro-Hamas media like Al-Jazeera:

                  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/

                  https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

                  Hamas is arguably an Israeli creation, something Al-Jazeera won’t mention. Netenyahu and others helped them grow strong, so they could divide the Palestinian cause, and had an excuse not to negotiate.

                  So for years Al-Jazeera was effectively helping Israel’s far right. People who aren’t entirely unhappy with the Hamas attacks, as it gave them an excuse to start a full blown war and probable annexation.

                  It’s ok. You wouldn’t be the first to fall into that trap. It happened to plenty of people after Iraq, where they grew critical of western media, but then uncritically fell for Russia Today’s narrative.

                  • moonlit2107@lemm.eeEnglish
                    173·
                    8 months ago

                    Thank you for posting two news articles that have nothing to do with Al Jazeera and conflating anti-genocide with pro-hamas. You are a shining light of unbiased reporting.

                    How could Al Jazeera possibly report on Palestinian suffering, are they evil?

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        173·
        8 months ago

        You didn’t even read my comment.

        Literally said that in the second sentence of two sentences.

            • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              6·
              8 months ago

              You didn’t. Your post was edited, 4 hours ago. Their response was 2 hours ago, so they should have seen that edit before they posted. They might be on mobile and only see the “edited” indicator, not the “how long ago” note?

                • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  So their edit was made on kbim but not picked up by sh.itjust.works until after you made your comment? Maybe. I dunno. Lemmy is a bit of a black box to me sometimes.