From Nakba to Digital Intifada (Seven Decades of Media Warfare in Palestine)

From Nakba to Digital Intifada charts a riveting journey through seventy odd years of Palestinian history as told by the world’s media revealing how journalism itself became a battleground for power and narrative. Beginning with the traumatic displacement of 750000 Palestinians in 1948 this definitive account exposes how newspapers radio broadcasts and now social platforms have shaped distorted and weaponised every chapter of the Palestinian struggle. Readers will traverse the shifting lenses of global outlets BBC CNN The New York Times Al Jazeera Haaretz and TRT World examining landmark moments from the First Arab-Israeli War and the Suez Crisis to the two Intifadas and the Gaza Wars of 2008 2014 and the genocide of 2023-2025. Each epoch is dissected through the twin prisms of framing theory and propaganda models from Entman’s functions of framing to Chomsky and Herman’s propaganda filters illustrating how language choices sourcing practices and digital censorship have systematically silenced Palestinian voices and amplified dominant interests. This meticulously researched study brings to life the frontline experiences of journalists Palestinian and international who risked everything from Shireen Abu Akleh to the 242 media workers killed since October 2023 and shows how activist reporting and citizen led journalism have risen in defiance of ever more sophisticated disinformation campaigns. Far more than a chronology From Nakba to Digital Intifada is an urgent call to recognise that control of the story is inseparable from the struggle for justice itself.