Yousef Munayyer’s tweet really says it all:
UNREAL @nytimes story on photos of Palestinian refugee experience quotes Israelis but precisely ZERO Palestinians http://t.co/4oPAbPIlGe
— Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) November 29, 2013
The article, “Photographs Tell a History of Palestinians Unmoored,” is about a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) photo exhibit that just opened in Jerusalem. For some reason Isabel Kershner gives more space to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor to denounce the exhibit than to UNWRA staffers to explain it. And, of course, the article ignores actual Palestinian refugees all together.
I know Phil’s hobbyhorse is that that the Times is embedded in Israeli society, but this is ridiculous.
Update:
You can learn more about the UNWRA exhibit here, and the incredible project it is a part of. Here is a video of former UNWRA photographer George Nehmeh meeting a woman he had taken a picture of as a child:
Not sure how much it makes a difference – but I believe it was journalist @erinmcunningham who first pointed this out:
Erin Cunningham@erinmcunningham – 9h
In a story about an UNRWA photographic exhibit of Palestinian refugees, the NYT manages to speak to… no refugees
Don’t be too harsh on them, Adam.
At the end of the day, we can all safely attest to the fact that it’s all pastor Hagee’s fault.
If it weren’t for him and other evangelical Christians, the settler movement would collapse tomorrow and the American media would be more fair and balanced. But since we all know that every mainstream journalist, especially those at the New York Times, is quivering in their boots at the thought of getting bulk-mailed by CUFI, the debate is very constrained.
I know this to be true, because I read it from numerous liberal Zionists and how could they possibly not telling the truth? You don’t mean to suggest they’re trying to hide something?
The NYT isn’t a news organ, but a part of the Lobby. If one expects that it will follow anything like journalistic norms when it comes to these matters, he is fooling himself. The NYT’s coverage of the Palestine issue exists to support the zionists, nothing else.
The choice of the word “unmoored” is also unreal – as if the refugees were carried away from their homes by some natural force!
Poor hateful and immoral Zio-supremacist spokesman! He’s upset not because he and his supremacist “Jewish State” engage in, support, justify, excuse and/or advocate for oppression, occupation, ethnic cleansing, land theft, colonialism, Jewish supremacism, torture and murder, but because the nasty ol’ United Nations won’t leave them in peace to do their dirty work! :-(
Israel has no right to exist as a(n oppressive, colonialist, expansionst and) supremacist “Jewish State”.