This is how Birmingham Live news outlet described a large demo taking place now, this afternoon -- "for those caught up in the deadly conflict" as if they didn't have the balls to name the actual people being bombed. They also described a "massive" crowd as being "200-strong" when video footage showed a constant stream of people, wall to wall, surging past the camera for several minutes.
Elsewhere they did mention chants of "Free Palestine" along with quite a lot of video footage, but it shows their instinctive framing of the event was to blunt the reality and underplay it as much as possible. I wonder if they'd have been quite so timid and mealy-mouthed had this been a pro-Israel demo.
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