Abstract From its outset, the Israeli war on Gaza was understood by many Israeli Jews as a battle over image evidence that they risked losing—in large measure, they believed, due to the threat of the Palestinian media ecosystem, streaming genocide to global publics in real time. Drawing on a set of diverse case studies, this article examines the myriad ways that Israeli state and mainstream media institutions, influencers and ordinary citizens, endeavored to manage, control and supplant the perceived threat of the Palestinian viral image of Israeli state violence. All engaged in a range of visual tactics and pedagogical strategies to change the international view of Gaza and to keep Palestinian victims out of the Israeli frame: all were efforts to unsee Gaza and, in the process, an attempt to persuade global audiences to unsee a genocide. This article foregrounds the ways that Israeli visual practices—which tethered the images and visual literacies of the AI age to longstanding colonial ideologies of denial—have played a key role in supporting and sustaining the genocide.
Rebecca L. Stein (Tue,) studied this question.
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