Dave Brackenbury
The University hosted two talks on the Gaza conflict last week in the Samuel Alexander building as part of the Israeli Apartheid Week event organised by the pressure group Action Palestine. As’ad Abu Khalili, a professor at California State University and visiting professor at the University of California in Berkeley and Nimer Sultany, a Palestinian living in Israel spoke to students and then took questions.
In the first talk, on Thursday, Abu Khalil spoke about the American media’s coverage of the war in Gaza. He spoke out against the New York Times, citing its influence over other media sources in terms of stories and the terminology used in reporting the conflict. He said this influence reached not only into other media organisations, but even members of Congress, and denounced “the global influence of the Zionist media.”
