The Listening Post

What’s the US’s issue with TikTok? Is it data security, secret Chinese influence or pro-Palestinian content?

Violent repression in the West Bank is making a bad situation unbearable.

An absurd spectacle as the US drops aid into Gaza while also arming Israel.

An horrific story in the New York Times falls apart and exposes systemic issues.

The media coverage of two dissidents reveals how Western media select those they champion and vilify.

Is the horror of Rafah being downplayed or do we not have the words to describe it?

Pakistan’s election does not go the way the country’s powerful military intended – despite their media meddling.

Israeli intelligence accuses a UN refugee agency of collusion with Hamas – and the media take it at face value.

The ICJ’s order to Israel to stop acts of genocide marks a watershed in the Gaza war.

As the ICJ deliberates, what is the narrative in Israel about the case?