Good news: the New York Times covered the inspiring Bab al-Shams story. Bad news: they erased the occupation from the story.
Here was the original headline on the story published today:
Screenshot taken from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Several hours later it was changed to:
Screenshot from the New York Times website
Ali Abuminah reports:
The website Newsdiffs.org shows that the original headline was posted at 1:09 PM EST and changed at 7:10 PM EST, some six hours later.
A key goal of Israeli propaganda is to eliminate the term “occupied” from media coverage of Israel’s, well, occupation. Many media have adopted terms like “disputed” that grant false legitimacy to Israeli claims to the land which are totally null and void in international law.
(h/t Jamie Stern-Weiner)
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It’s always nice to know that the New York Times will change a headline or report or article based on the say so of some Israeli government official or some pro-Israel hack.
I prefer to use “ethnic cleansing” because it is not a routine that anyone can possibly adjust to as is implied when the vastly softer word, “occupation,” is used.
NYT: don’t lie.
Not surprising. par for the course. Quite a piece over at Foreign Policy “The Most Hated Woman in Israel’ by Larry Derfner. Haneen Zoabi