In an interview with the website of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, Majid Tafreshi talked about the severe news censorship of the Zionist media and European and American media supporting this regime during the Gaza war: Part of the Israeli regime’s plan to advance its goals in the occupied territories is always accompanied by violence and terror, and a part of it has been followed through the creation of news and journalistic campaigns. From 1948 to 1988, the Zionists created several media groups, and the approach of justifying actions and intimidating the people was on the agenda of the Israeli regime.

After 1988, the matter became more organized, and today, the Israeli regime has a news apparatus in all political, espionage, and intelligence sectors that justifies the government’s behavior or distorts the narrative in the minds of its public opinion and the people of the region and the world.

He continued: This has been escalated during the last year that the war in Gaza has been going on. Until then, the Israeli regime called its opponents anti-Semitic, as it accused not only Muslims, leftists, and freedom lovers but even Jews whose families were victims of the Holocaust and criticized the government’s policies while using lobbying, money, and force. It has recruited several Westerners, Muslims, and Zionist Christians to advance its goals.

Tafreshi said this process has become more complicated for several years because they can no longer hide everything. As they were forced to, many journalists and journalists were killed or imprisoned, a clear example of which was the murder of Shirin Abu Akla, who was martyred by direct fire from Israeli forces while he was wearing a uniform and was a well-known person. On the other hand, when the Israeli regime is criticized by the world public opinion for the crimes in Gaza, with the support of its supporters in Europe and America, it either remains silent or denies and, in some cases, falsely announces that the guilty person has been punished. Still, that issue has never been followed up on.

This researcher continued: Many journalists were targeted by the military forces of the Israeli regime after the October 7 war, and according to official statistics, 116 journalists have been killed in Gaza and the occupied territories.

He said that despite all the news restrictions by the Israeli regime and its supporters in Europe and America, many reports have been published against this regime and its actions against the Palestinians and the people in Gaza, but the Israeli regime dismissed all of them under the pretext that they are in a state of war. In all the actions taken by the Israeli regime in these seven decades, and especially in the last year, it has never questioned the claims of this regime and the West about democracy and the defense of human rights and freedom of expression. The Europeans and Americans have always supported the actions of this regime. In some cases, such as the crimes of the Gaza war and genocide, when they were pressured by their public opinion, they tried to cover it up and did not even answer for their own public opinion.

Tafreshi stated: While journalists are still being targeted and killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and other places, the Europeans have a double standard towards the Israeli regime and do not protest, justifying that the Israeli regime is defending itself legitimately. Its crimes are closed. Human rights institutions and the United Nations are practically silent under the shadow of Europe and America’s support for this regime, and they are trying to portray the aggressor as the victim. Of course, sometimes we see that reports from European and American media reporters, as well as from some Arab countries in the region, are published realistically, but in general, foreign media are not allowed to publish independent reports about the events in Gaza, and this restriction even applies to civil groups. It also includes human rights inside the occupied territories under pressure.

He continued: What the Israeli regime has failed to achieve was its attempt to influence or divert the public opinion, which could not do anything in this regard, and apart from whether it achieves its goals in this war or not, this is the biggest failure. The international image of the Israeli regime has been seriously damaged not only in the region and among Arab and Muslim countries but also at the level of Europe and America.

This researcher said: Of course, the propaganda apparatus of the Israeli regime and the attempt to control public opinion and the media during the war in Gaza is being updated and has many facilities for this task, but the speed of its control and updating is as fast as the speed of developments and The news of this regime’s crimes in Gaza and Lebanon is not transmitted to the world.

Referring to the development and access to the Internet by the people in Gaza, in a situation where the media is wholly prohibited from addressing issues and developments or journalists and reporters are targeted and killed, he stated: Although the use of mobile phones, Smart and virtual space and the facilities that the Internet provides to people were generally limited in this region, but at the same time, these facilities and tools, despite their limitations, caused the news monopoly to be broken. People in Gaza were able to send developments and events to the world in the absence of international mass media in this region.