The struggle for objectivity, compassion and the right words on the Middle East conflict | DW News 

DW is not biased? since when?

Just one question, the hamas journalist hostage keeper, does his death count as civilian, hamas fighter or killed media worker?

DW prohibited the use of the word apartheid, ridiculous.

Israel is still stuck in October because the hostages aren’t at home!!! How they can go further?!

"we call it a terror attack, why" maybe, because it was a terrorist attack?

Journalists trying to move the focus to what led to October 7 should perhaps mention that the so called "siege" or "occupation" of Gaza was also not the beginning of the story. Apart from that, the terror attack of October 7 is still ongoing. Hamas' rockets are targeting indiscriminately, and the hostages are still being held. Comparing death counts and the number of people suffering is a double standard too, when not counting in the huge difference between one party to a war making absolutely no efforts to avoid innocent casualties, not even claiming to do so, while the other at least claims trying their best to avoid innocent casualties while targeting combatants. Real journalism wouldn't report people's suffering without ever asking some uncomfortable questions, especially about whether those suffering are supporting the ongoing "resistance" by their regime, or whether they'd rather have them give up the hostages and lay down their weapons.

I tuned out after the nonsensical comment that 'it's not our job to determine if it's a genocide'. What arrant nonsense! It's been a textbook case of genocide from day one. Genocide scholars across the world have agreed on this. Moreover, it's curious how they conveniently ignore the report of Francesca Albanese (the Special Rapporteur for the OPT): "The Anatomy of a Genocide".

As a news watcher, I just could not understand if they wanted to stop the war and return the hostages that is the condition Israel asked for. Those hostages are not only the Israelis but multinationals who have nothing to do with the conflict between the two groups.

Very interesting discussion, I think my generation (under 25s) needs to hear this.

I totally agree that the German press is very biased.

What happens when Hamas does the same Oct 7 again in the years ahead. How should Israel respond?

Funny how they say journalists are not able to deduce whether it's a genocide or not yet they seem to be pretty sure that it is not a genocide. And if I use the word genocide in a comment, my account will be banned from commenting in the future.

Yeah must be hard for u people to call terro rists …terr orists

An amazing discussion on the job of media outlets to provide an unbiased coverage on israel hamas war. 👏 Loved the point to provide wider lens to issues covering all parts of the world. On such case is indeed the Sudan crises that has displaced more than 10 million people internally. And it has been covered by journalists and media outlets. Allowing me to take a stand against humanitarian crises.💫

Any mention of the Palestinian oct7 attack is deleted

it is simple journalist job is to collect facts, evidences and report it

Why do journalists hide Hostages?

Really appreciate you having this discussion as a German media outlet, thank you

*ape is not resistence.

Israel has to defend their civilians and their country's future. Hamas with their constant attacks & stated goals, has finally become an existential threat for Israel. That's why they want it to be destroyed and if that requires unavoidable collateral damage to civilian lives, then so be it, they brought it on themselves. This is the only language Palestinians understand.

51:48 My respect to the lady

This is golden, coming from this channel who from day one self-censored and spent MONTHs bringing retired IDF soldiers to analyze the situation, or just correspondents in a high rise in tel-aviv knowing perfectly well that they are censored.

😂😂Interesting, the rich and powerful Love to talk about compassion while they have major problems with Unions, raising minimum wage to employees, paying for medical insurance, basic human needs. Yet they talk and talk and lecture about compassion.

One of them strongly opposed to the idea of journalists being considered "pro-" something. Do you find the idea of being "anti" more acceptable and socially approved? Anti-Israel, of course?

Does media in Gaza and arabs countries cover enough about Israel’s pain? Do they recognize Israel’s right to exist?

That's awesome, due to we have many points of view about this conflict. Thanks a lot to DW for informing us about the media situation and public opinion in Gaza and Israel.

The India lady was great 👏

Nada bashir you're so adorable and spot on in the same time.. good for you to stand your groud 👍🏼

why do they clap for everything

That is wrong description. The gaza ongoing event is not a war, it is an operation that has deliberately been turned into a genocide. And the Hamas offensive being compared as the most deadly one post holocaust is laughable, hollow, if people fail to recognize the repeated provocation and offensive of israeli govt. against palestinians well before it and which probably started after murder of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.

We must know who is the Oppressor and who is the oppressed one. The world already judged

I don't understand the hypocrisy or unwilling to know the facts that, where are these bloody activities are taking place? If everybody knowledge this and act accordingly, then the world would be in heavenly peace.

Just one hour long Monologue

they can't mention the Israeli Lobby can they ? Yet.

"we are all semist people" ehhhh sounds like you're intentionally being obtuse :|

It's heartbreaking to see people living side by side in the Holy Land, a place supposed to be synonymous with wisdom, blighted by war and hatred. They can even walk from one side to the other. The conflict certainly does not date from October 7, but it is undeniable that both parties bear some responsibility for the current situation.

If Mehdi Hasan was invited it would be more effective show

Great! This is not a football match.

These panelist were exceptional, inspirational, and authentic. The women of the panel however, are showing the world how amazing a matriarchy could be!

this is a joke people that obviously straggle to decide what restaurant to go to or which Netflix serious to watch.. criticist Israel reactions to 7th of October

Putin b-day continues , talking about billioner Arafat crime gang deeds and forget shrödemerkel friend flatting towns in Europe without leaflets and organizing new Calais camp in eastern Europe which led to Brexit , no lessons learned

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Such a antisemitism on this platform

Excess of blah blah bha...and lack of: "There is no true MORAL responsibility for distortion or disproportion...Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters pertaining to the nation’s defense publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion into the privacy of well-known people according to the slogan “Everyone is entitled to know everything.” Blah blah blah. Too compassion and too much IN-competence: The press, too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. But what use does it make of it?... What sort of responsibility does a journalist or a newspaper have to the readership or to history? If they have misled public opinion by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, even if they have contributed to mistakes on a state level, do we know of any case of open regret voiced by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No; this would damage sales. A nation may be the worse for such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. It is most likely that he will start writing the exact opposite to his previous statements with renewed aplomb. Because instant and credible information is required, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors, and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be refuted; they settle into the readers’ memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial, and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, and are then left hanging? The press can act the role of public opinion or miseducate it... (But this is a false slogan of a false era; far greater in value is the forfeited right of people not to know, not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life has no need for this excessive and burdening flow of information.)...Hastiness and superficiality-these are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century and more than anywhere else this is manifested in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press; it is contrary to its nature. The press merely picks out sensational formulas...Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, exceeding that of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. Yet one would like to ask: According to what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the Communist East, a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has voted Western journalists into their positions of power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives? There is yet another surprise for someone coming from the totalitarian East with its rigorously unified press: One discovers a common trend of preferences within the Western press as a whole (the spirit of the time), generally accepted patterns of judgment, and maybe common corporate interests, the sum effect being not competition but unification. Unrestrained freedom exists for the press, but not for the readership, because newspapers mostly transmit in a forceful and emphatic way those opinions which do not too openly contradict their own and that general trend. Without any censorship in the West, fashionable trends of thought and ideas are fastidiously separated from those that are not fashionable, and the latter, without ever being forbidden, have little chance of finding their way into periodicals or books or being heard in colleges. Your scholars are free in the legal sense, but they are hemmed in by the idols of the prevailing fad. There is no open violence, as in the East; however, a selection dictated by fashion and the need to accommodate mass standards frequently prevents the most independent-minded persons from contributing to public life and gives rise to dangerous herd instincts that block successful development. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A World Split Apart. Harvard University. June 8, 1978

Stop genocide in Gaza

since when fighting an occuaption is a terrorism?

How can bias be avoided? Consider using more neutral language to describe events instead of emotionally charged terms like "terrorist attack." For example, you might say, "Members of Hamas entered a music festival held in Israel controlled territory with weapons; multiple participants died, and some were relocated to unknown locations in the Gaza Strip." It is not the media's responsibility to tell viewers which side represents terrorism or justice; viewers are capable to conduct their own research to determine which side they support.

I would have liked a more objective moderator. It's not only the right words. It's including words and background rather than omitting, downplaying and dismissing. Hamas massacred 1200, kidnapped 200 or so and says they will do it as many times as they can. In order to make sure that doesn't happen Israel has to destroy Hamas, the military infrastructure, weapons and fighters. That includes the 400+ miles, yes, miles of underground tunnels. Unless Hamas returns the hostages and surrenders. It could do that at any time to save lives. Wars are pretty awful, and now we get to see more distressing footage on our computers. John Spencer, an expert on urban warfare, says Israel is actually doing well at limiting casualties, especially since the strategy of Hamas is to put Gazans in harms way by doing things like putting fighters, weapons and command centers in schools, hospitals, mosques and homes. By fighting near civilians, diverting food, water and aid, etc. But that is often omitted. It's also not mentioned that Palestinians have rejected partition plans and 2 state solutions. They don't compromise, and then repeatedly resort to violence. There is plenty of evidence supporting the points I made. Israel has made peace with Eqypt and Jordan. It's moved people out of Sinai and Gaza. What have the Palestinians done to show they will live peacefully if Israel retreats? Where is the Palestinian peace language, gestures, and behavior? Where are the moderate leaders? Israel could do some things better, but let's not hold Israel to a standard that we don't hold any other country to.

Abandon the settler colonial project

Julian assange is true media

"we call it a terror attack, why" because Netanyahu told us to do it or we will be forced to endure more and more Schindler's List movies.

Free Palestine ❤

STOP NORMALIZING EVIL. What a useless discussion. Shame on all of you for patting yourself in the back for having used "proper" terms on how to describe what's being done to those people. Last time I checked, we all bleed the same.