News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel’s “Right to Exist” 1,001 Times vs. Only 6 For Palestine
In this News Brief, Adam and Nima detail the glaring asymmetry of the U.S. media's routine invocation of Israel's allegedly hallowed "right to exist" in sharp contrast to the total silence on Palestine's own "right to exist." Adam ran the numbers, and the results are stark and revealing.
Beyond the predictable narrative disciplining of candidates and commentators, the insistence on recognizing only single nation's "right to exist" as an explicitly ethno-religious supremacist apartheid state on a native people's stolen land is meant to affirm that Israel's "right" to dominate, dispossession, disenfranchise and destroy that Indigenous population.
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Show Notes
US Media doesn’t think Palestine ‘has a right to exist’
Adam Johnson | July 8, 2026 | The Real News Network
We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media
Adam Johnson | May 12, 2026 | The Intercept
Netanyahu insists there can be no Palestinian state, ahead of U.N. vote leaving door open
November 16, 2025 | Associated Press
Joseph Massad | May 6, 2011 | Al Jazeera
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Transcript
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Credits
Senior Producer: Florence Barrau-Adams
Producer: Julianne Tveten
Production Assistant: Trendel Lightburn
Newsletter: Marco Cartolano
Music: Grandaddy
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