News networks cover bombings, shootings, and other forms of kinetic violence because they are loud, finite events that seize our attention, invite investigation and intrigue, and whose victims can be counted, named, and mourned. By contrast, the everyday structural violence of Israel’s occupation and apartheid is comparatively uneventful. Instead of loss, it inflicts absence. Instead of killing, it simply aborts. Its first casualties are dreams and destinies. Even its victims cannot offer a full accounting, because how can you miss that of which you were always deprived?
Alexei Sisulu Abrahams in +972 Magazine. How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine
The uneventful nature of structural violence renders it unfit for media coverage compared to kinetic violence. But the two are inextricably linked.
