The New York Times' Ethan Bronner did an excellent job on the shooting of Tristan Anderson, getting a good-sized story on to page A7 of the Times. As for Haaretz, it refers to the story prominently on the front page of its print edition and also runs a sizable piece on the atrocity. No surprise: this is an important story.
And The Washington Post? Three paragraphs on page A11.
The Washington Post editorial page's angry view that the Israel lobby is a "crackpot" conspiracy theory is undermined by the newspaper's wretched coverage of Jim Crow in Palestine. It continually underplays or fails to cover news of the Israeli landgrab that is destroying the two-state solution and turning young Americans of conscience like Tristan Anderson and Rachel Corrie into Freedom Riders. When the history of this oppression is written, we will recognize that writers like Alison Weir and Anna Baltzer did far more than the leading newspapers to educate Americans about a simple fact: the degree of Israeli colonization of the West Bank.
(That said, let us celebrate Walter Pincus's pretty darn good story about the lobby and Chas Freeman in the Post the other day.)
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