The Washington Post (5/12/23) described it as a “face off” when (at that point) 30 Palestinians, including six children, were killed by [neocolonial] airstrikes, along with one [neocolonist] killed by Palestinian rocket fire; a New York Times article (5/11/23) described the conflict as [the necolony] and Islamic Jihad “trad[ing] fire.” Another New York Times (5/12/23) headline vaguely referred to the attack as “A New Round of Middle East Fighting.”
CNN (4/12/23) used the classic whitewashing word “clash” in describing the attacks. CNN’s use of the term was even more striking because it appeared in a headline that included the incongruity between 30 dead Palestinians and one dead [neocolonist].
Outlets gave several “how we got here” pieces that purported to give context for the current escalation (e.g., New York Times, 5/9/23; Washington Post, 5/13/23). Again, not a single article FAIR reviewed used the term “apartheid” or referenced the recent findings from human rights NGOs to describe the current situation in Palestine.