This article is part of The New Arab’s States of Journalism series, a sustained exploration of freedom, repression, and accountability in MENA and global media landscapes. Read more of the series’ articles here. It is jarring to me, and to every Palestinian, to see the increasing wave of humane and sympathetic portrayal of the Ukrainians as rightfully “fighting for their homeland” on US and other Western media platforms, when closely compared to our Palestinian reality. Despite struggling with decades of biased and one-sided media coverage, it is still painful – baffling even, to witness the p…