Comment by odiroot
2 years ago
That's a really... weird article to read. It's like reading a fantasy book about another universe. Or a desperate attempt at "inception".
Reddit, at least, seems to be (rightfully or not) dominated by a strongly anti-Israel narrative.
Even the "great" BBC is not willing to call a spade a spade.
Interestingly I've seen a strong pro-Israel bias, particularly on the larger subreddits (like the default ones). Some of the smaller ones do seem to have a pro-Palestine (or pro-civilian) outlook but nothing that I would describe as "strongly anti-Israel"
The default subreddits are truly awful. r/worldnews is the first one that comes to mind. They were accusing the murdered Reuters journalist of being a member of hamas.
I decided to never look at those subreddits ever again.
Whenever the topic of water in Gaza comes up in /r/worldnews, there's an oft-repeated bit of misinformation that Gaza doesn't have water because they dug up the EU-financed pipes to make rockets.
It's not quite based on nothing: there is footage of Hamas (or maybe Islamic Jihad?) digging up pipes to use for rockets and a Guardian article saying that Hamas could use the EU-financed pipes to make rockets, but as far as I can tell there isn't any evidence that the pipes Hamas are using are from critical in-use infrastructure.
One reddit commenter posted that the video of the pipe being dug up was to supply an abandoned Israeli settlement. Israel shut that water off a long time ago. I can't verify that's correct, but it sounds plausible.
you should look at the r/palestine if you want see manifestation of hatred. or any heavily left leaning subs.
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What you say about Reddit is certainly not my experience. /r/UKPolitics for example - anything posted about Istael/Gaza is now moderated out. And comments are dominated by people still parroting the debunked stories about mass rapes and baked babies.
When the crisis was initially unfolding, I followed a few of the major subreddits, and it was entirely pro-Israel. It was kind of shocking how uniformly pro-Israel the comments were.
I think it depends on what subreddit you're on. /r/worldnews tends to be very pro-Israel, unless the comment are on a story about settler violence. /r/politics is more balanced.
Most of the complaints I've seen are in the opposite direction, complaining about how pro Isreal reddit is.
I'm sure it depends on what subredits you look at. The moderators are essentially free to enforce their politics.
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