Western media has strong pro-Israeli bias: column

Mohamad Elmasry's latest column for Middle East Eye, draws on wealth of academic studies that point to a consistent pro-Israeli media bias. 

According to an ongoing, but incomplete, analysis of this year’s violence by media monitoring group the Palestine Center, between 30 June and 9 July, CNN interviewed a total of 17 Israeli officials, but just one Palestinian official.

During the 2012 crisis, CNN interviewed 45 Israeli officials compared to just 20 Palestinian officials, while also using very different language for the two groups. Words with defensive connotations were often used for Israeli acts of aggression, but aggressive words were usually ascribed to Palestinian acts.