How to Sell a Genocide

Through painstaking documentation, Johnson shows how anti-Palestinian racism among elite liberals and liberal institutions primed Western audiences for genocide from the foreword by Noura Erakat, author of Justice for SomeAs bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick war on terror framework.How to Sell a Genocide is an indictment of the US corporate medias role in enablingand, at times, directly incitingone of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like the New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israels war crimes, hid the USs central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people.Drawing from deep, original data-driven