"Gaza's living conditions worsen as strong winds and hypothermia kill 5," the AP reported. Not Israel blocking aid - hypothermia. That's the kind of headline Dr. Assal Rad has spent years dissecting.

A historian of the modern Middle East and the mind behind the viral "headline fixer" posts, Dr. Rad has spent the genocide in Gaza tracking exactly how Western media - the New York Times, CNN, the AP, the BBC - chose their words.

Her new book, Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide, argues that these choices weren't accidents. They were policy. In this conversation, Dr. Rad joins PalTalk to unpack how "evictions" replaced ethnic cleansing, how "self-defense" replaced genocide, and why the outlets seen as the most credible carry the most responsibility for what got erased.

We talk about what it means that this genocide was live-streamed directly to our phones, even as the language in print stayed sanitized. And we talk about what comes after a so-called ceasefire, when the killing continues but the coverage quietly fades.

📖 Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/834977/dont-say-palestine-by-assal-rad/?ref=truth11.com