Robin Andersen, "The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza" (OR Books, 2026)
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Robin Andersen discusses her book examining US media's role in shaping narratives around the genocide in Gaza.
Robin Andersen's latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza ( OR Books, 2026), is a forensic and unflinching examination of how establishment media abandoned journalistic integrity to manufacture consent for the genocide in Gaza, creating an environment in which unprecedented escalations and war crimes have become a terrifying new normal. Since October 7th 2023, the story of what was to become the genocide in Gaza was immediately shaped by the mobilisation of a very particular narrative: one of unprovoked terror, of Israel's right to defend itself, of a war between equals. What was not made clear, and what Andersen's book documents in meticulous detail, was the extent to which those attacks would be used by Western elites, the global military industrial complex, and US legacy media to condone a full-scale genocide, including horrors that continue as this book goes to print, despite a ceasefire. The Complicit Lens is published by OR Books in collaboration with the Institute for Palestine Studies, and features an introduction by the Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi, who writes: "This book does not make for easy reading. Andersen walks us…
People in this episode
Guest: Robin Andersen
Topics covered
- media coverage
- Israel
- Gaza
- genocide
- journalistic integrity
- war crimes
Keywords
- media
- genocide
- Gaza
- Israel
- journalism
- war crimes
- narrative
- Rashid Khalidi
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OR Books
Books & works: The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza
Places: Gaza, Israel
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