Too Little, Too Late: Media Complicity in Genocide

Gaza’s genocide is no accident: The system profits from our silence

— published with permission of the photographer.

Today, all the major Western media outlets have suddenly decided it is time to “find their voice” on Gaza. After more than 18 months of willful silence, distortion, and sanitisation, headlines are now acknowledging the siege, the starvation, and the slaughter. But the loss for words now — when millions have already lost homes, families, limbs, futures — is itself shameful. . What changed? Not the reality on the ground, but the political winds.

The Guardian is not alone: . These belated awakenings ring hollow when they come only after the world’s attention has been forced elsewhere. After the bombs have fallen, after the children have starved, after the mass graves have been dug. Their silence was complicity; their delayed outrage, a performance. Apology don’t cut it, only fundamental change does.

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