Always the cause, never the effect

Always the cause, never the effect

There’s a lot to say about the way the media, NGOs and other parties discuss the Israel-Gaza war but there’s an especially pernicious propaganda trick worth calling out: the ubiquitous references to “the context”. When reporting on an event, referring to the “context” suggests there’s some pertinent background information that is the cause of the event. Whatever this context is, the reader is likely to infer two things: the context behind the ev…