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During their coverage of the escalating tension in Ukraine, Western media have exposed their racism, white supremacy, and hypocrisy 

by Ahmad Karakira

Part 2 - Hypocrisy and orientalist structures

As a result of the ongoing tension and escalation, many Ukrainians had to flee their homes and seek refuge.

While reporting on the refugee crisis, Western media outlets revealed their racism and orientalist approach to Arab, Muslim, and third-world countries, selectively comparing them with European refugees.

"There's this idea, this orientalist idea, that war and chaos and destruction is something that takes place outside of Europe's borders," said Denijal Jegic, postdoctoral research fellow in communication and multimedia journalism and media at the Lebanese American University.

"We've seen several mainstream Western European American media using terms such as civilized, middle-class privileged and so on to refer to the refugees who were crossing from Ukraine into neighboring western countries, oftentimes showing some sort of surprise that what's taking place did not take place in Afghanistan or Iraq," he added.
 
Jegic pointed out that it's interesting to watch this kind of coverage from Western media, considering that Europe has continuously witnessed emerging wars. 

According to the academic, "We've seen reports of Ukrainians who are taking arms against the Russian forces in Ukraine, and some of the Western media have glorified Ukrainians who have taken arms" against the Russian troops, while at the same time, dehumanizing armed resistance from the Third World - especially from Palestine and Lebanon - and deeming them "terrorists" or "anti-Semitic".

He also considered that such media coverage exposes the "hypocrisy" and the orientalist structures in Western media.

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