Adam Johnson

And then on October 13th, he issues a a ban on the State Department and any administration official from using the word ceasefire, because at that point, everybody there was a playbook.

Everyone knew what it meant from previous Israeli bombings in Gaza from 2014, 2021, 2012, 2009, that you call for a ceasefire because they're just going to kill some arbitrarily high number of Palestinians.

Or as the case in this particular round, they commit genocide and certainly ethnic cleansing.

But there was a decision made that they were going to go for it.

They were going to go for broke.

And again, at that time, there had been a ceasefire being called for by Amnesty International, by Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, every major human rights and medical organization calling for a ceasefire.

And then it was clear that they were going to so-called eliminate a mosque, something I argue

No one really believed.

Tony Blinken himself said behind closed doors to Netanyahu in January of 2024 that defeating Hamas was impossible and that it was largely pretextual to just commit collective punishment against the Palestinians as such.

And so the argument I make is that

that the media such as it was, and I do focus on what we broadly consider mainstream media, none of these terms are perfect, but the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC.

I did not focus on right-wing media like Fox News and Newsmax because our assumption was is that they're just gonna be mindlessly racist and pro-genocide anyway.

So that's not really in dispute.

But what I argue is that it will only get you 35%, 40% to really get to that 60%, 65% you need to carry out a live stream genocide for two years.

And the book focuses mainly on the first year.

especially with the Democratic president, you needed bipartisan mainstream buy-in.

And that was the role that CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, AP, Washington Post, et cetera, et cetera, played.

And what I argue is that you can quantitatively show, first and foremost, the bias against Palestinians systematically and rigorously.

Again, we studied 12,000 articles, 5,000 news segments.

And when pro-Israel groups do try to critique my work, as they did a couple days ago, they can't dispute the facts.