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A series of studies have been published in recent weeks analyzing coverage of the war in Gaza, and the results reveal an overwhelming bias against Palestinians. In the first six weeks of the war, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times used the terms "slaughter" and "massacre" 60 times more frequently in reference to Israelis than Palestinians, despite Palestinian deaths outnumbering those of Israelis by an order of magnitude. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News mentioned Israeli deaths four times as often as Palestinians during roughly the same time frame. And on the four major Sunday morning TV talk shows, Israeli guests outnumbered Palestinians 10 to 1. In the words of Mehdi Hasan — the former MSNBC journalist whose show was canceled after he committed the unpardonable sin of asking tough questions of a senior Israeli government official — "What else do you call that other than the deliberate dehumanization of the Palestinian people?" Common Dreams is committed to providing daily coverage of the ongoing slaughter in Gaza that is free of pro-Israel bias and without devaluing the lives of Palestinians. But we depend on donations from readers like you to make this reporting possible. Please donate to Common Dreams and help meet our Spring Campaign goal of raising $100,000 by May 1.

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With solidarity and gratitude, Kimberly Monaghan Board Chair on behalf of the entire Common Dreams team P.S. Common Dreams relies on sustaining donors to make long-term plans and improve our reporting. Will you become a monthly donor today? Take Action: Don't let your tech be complicit in war crimes! Tell Google: Don't let your tech be complicit in war crimes! Shocking investigations have exposed how the Israeli military is using Google Photos to surveil Palestinians in Gaza, capturing their faces without consent at checkpoints and with drones, and feeding this data into colossal databases used to track their identities and every movement. The problematic tech has wrongly flagged civilians as wanted Hamas militants. In a harrowing essay for The New Yorker, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha details how he was beaten and interrogated by the Israeli military after his arrest. He was ultimately released without being charged and told his facial recognition-enabled arrest had been a “mistake.”While Google has long claimed to be a progressive, responsible company, so far, it has failed to take any steps to stop its software from fueling the Israeli government’s surveillance regime in Gaza. That’s where you come in. TAKE ACTION: ADD YOUR NAME We don’t need any more “mistakes” to happen before Google takes action to ban the Israeli military from using its tech to violate people’s human rights. If there’s anything corporations care about, it’s their brand — and when Google’s CEO hears from tens of thousands of activists calling on him to change course, you can bet he’ll start paying closer attention. Google is thoroughly failing its motto to “do the right thing”, but activists like you can help hold the company accountable. Tell Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Don't let your tech be complicit in war crimes. ADD YOUR NAME Thanks for all you do, The whole Common Dreams team

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