Why Aren’t Media Covering the Palestinian Authority’s Crackdown on Critics? | Honest Reporting | Honest Reporting

Ghanem Zreikat. Alaa al-Rabi. Amer Hamdan. Jihad Abdo. To the readership of prominent publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and others, the names of these detained Palestinian activists and journalists likely mean little. None of the leading global news outlets and wire services have reported on the plight of fellow journalists. The fact that Zreikat, al-Rabi, Abu Lafh, Hamdan and Abdo were detained by the Palestinian Authority — the Western-backed interim government in the West Bank widely seen as the official representative of the Palestinian people – is seemingly being treated as a banality.