How to Sell a Genocide Quotes

“How can the White House “seek a ceasefire” and plan for the “day after with Hamas no longer in power” without militarily defeating Hamas, something Blinken himself reportedly said was impossible as early as January 2024? How did this make sense?”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“Palestinians, it is simply assumed, kill for sadistic glee. The US and its allies kill With a Heavy Heart and only because They Have No Choice. Any framing that muddied up this basic framework was out of bounds.”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“Tens of thousands of Palestinian children have been maimed—at one point, ten children a day had to have one or both legs amputated. 7 Nineteen thousand children had been orphaned by the end of our survey period.”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“The New York Times used the term “Hamas stronghold” and variations of the phrase 154 times from October 2023 to October 2024, almost always while reporting on war crimes or pending war crimes.”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“The New York Times repeatedly referred to places that Israel was bombing, invading, or starving—typically with dozens or hundreds of civilian deaths—as “Hamas strongholds” without defining what this concept means, or what places were, in their editorial judgment, not Hamas “strongholds.” “Hamas strongholds” were, in effect, whatever area or building Israel was attacking at the time.”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“Jewish Voice for Peace, a pro-Palestine group, launched a campaign against such “deadly exchanges” that are facilitated by the ADL and a small handful of other organizations.19”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“And as Black activists called for reprieve from deadly police violence, the ADL worked with police departments, Israeli forces, and even US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on skill shares and joint trainings.”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

“In the mid-1980s, the ADL launched a propaganda campaign against Nelson Mandela and slammed the African National Congress as “totalitarian, anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American.”
― Adam H. Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza