Pro-Palestine Marchers at Sundance Protest Against ‘Media Complicity in Genocide’

variety.com:

Tatiana Siegel Waving signs that read “Zionism is a death machine” and “the media buries the truth,” a group of pro-Palestinian protestors gathered on Main Street in Park City on Saturday.

Roughly 75 people turned out amid snowfall and temperatures in the 20s to express their frustration with “media complicity in genocide” against the backdrop of the Sundance Film Festival.

The organizers — which included Health Care Workers for Palestine, Arabs in Utah, Armed Queers and Salt Lake Artists Against Genocide — said they have no issue with the festival per se but are hoping to “educate and motivate the film industry to do a better job of exploring the full humanity of Palestinian life rather than relying on cartoony characters and cliche plot lines.” Dalia Salum, who was one of the featured speakers, talked about her family members who have been displaced by the Israeli government.

But she took direct aim at the Fourth Estate, who “perpetuate lies and spread misinformation about the reality on the ground” in Gaza. “[The] media should hold the values of accuracy, of independence, of impartiality, of humanity, of accountability.