Isabel Kershner reports an important story in yesterday’s New York Times. I am sure Kershner, an energetic reporter, would have done far more on this story about Jewish extremism if the paper had only encouraged her. Here’s the entire story:
A Jerusalem court on Wednesday convicted an American immigrant who lived in a West Bank settlement of killing two Palestinians in 1997. Known as “the Jewish terrorist,” Yaakov (Jack) Teitel was also convicted of other crimes, including bombings in 2008 that wounded a leftist Israeli professor and a teenage boy belonging to a community of Jews who believe in Jesus. Sentencing is planned for February.
And speaking of suppression… When is the Times Magazine going to run Ben Ehrenreich’s important report on the Friday protests in Nabi Saleh, at one of which protests he was detained last summer, under circumstances that have never been fully related to readers? What is the real Israel/Palestine conflict? What is Ehrenreich’s view of it? I can’t find it anywhere on the site. Will the Times tell its readers? –Blue in the face, waiting.
I wonder if Teitel got the “terrorist” label only because he attacked Jews.
Jews attack Palestinians every day and they rarely get the “terrorist” label.
Will the real NYT policy for reportage about I/P (current events, recent history, long-history, international law, human rights, USA’s policy concerns w.r.t. Israeli settlements, Arab and Muslim countries) please stand up and name itself? No? Guess we must deduce that policy. Measure the distance between what Mondoweiss prints daily and what NYT prints daily.
“Will the Times tell its readers” Do you really expect anything different from the New York Bloody Times? And another week goest by when there is absolutely no mention of the ongoing expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank and E Jerusalem on the Diane Rehm international hour. Week after week, month after month no one hour programs on Israel’s illegal settlements..which have become so normalized over the decades. The Rehm show and other MSM outlets have and continue to help close the door to a two state solution
Business as usual for the NY Times.
I believe that Teitel has also been accused of shooting two people at a Gay community center a few years ago. My, he has been a busy man.
And why is Jewish terrorist in quotes?