EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dramatic Reunion Ten Years After The Photo That Started It All

Honest Reporting
Media Critiques
31 August '10

On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of Israeli brutality -- with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier was the one who beat him.

That young man was, in fact, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago, who was beaten within inches of his life before being rescued by the Israeli border policeman in the photo.



The resulting outrage generated by the gross distortion of the photo "launched" HonestReporting.

Now, ten years later, we caught up with Tuvia in an exclusive interview.

(Read full story plus original report)

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