On the sixth anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, consider this:
Kim Lamberty was volunteering for a Christian group, escorting Palestinian children to school in the West Bank four years ago, when she was attacked on September 30, 2004 by Israeli settlers and badly injured. She lived in Washington, D.C. This piece on the assault ran in the Washington Post on October 9. A 10-day delay. I am told that the Post knew about the attack days before it ran the story and sat on the information. Guess they didn't think it was news.
Joel Gulledge of Chicago was also escorting Palestinian children to school in the West Bank last July when he was set upon by colonists, and later treated at a hospital for injuries, including a gash in the face. The Chicago Tribune got around to covering the attack on October 5, 2008. Two months later.
And as I reported the other day, when Tristan Anderson was grievously wounded by Israeli soldiers during a protest in the West Bank village of Ni'lin, the Washington Post buried the story.
Imagine if the northern press had trivialized the risks and injuries to the Freedom Riders during the 60s. What effect would that have had on segregation? Americans aren't going to know what's going on in Palestine until the media begin taking it seriously.
