The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association swiftly condemned the racism pervading media coverage of Ukraine and the neglect of nonwhite refugee populations in the days after the Russian invasion. It maintained, through a formal statement, that “newsrooms must not make comparisons that weigh the significance or imply justification of one conflict over another—civilian casualties and displacement in other countries are equally as abhorrent as they are in Ukraine.”

QUESTION: Worth investigating how newsroom practices could systematically counter this disparity in future conflicts. SEED: Potential essay on how media framing of different refugee crises shapes public response and policy.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1204