Time Adopts the Language of Anti-Israel Activists

Gilead Ini
CAMERA Media Analysis
17 December '10

Time Magazine and its Jerusalem bureau chief Karl Vick attracted much attention with their September story casting Israelis as indifferent to peace and consumed by money-making and materialism. In part, this was because the widely-criticized article was featured on the magazine's cover, along with a large Jewish star made of daisies and an inflammatory headline.

The magazine appears to be making a habit of distorting the realities about Israel. Vick's most recent piece, published in the Dec. 20 print edition, didn't make the cover. Its headline — "Palestinians, Contained" — is not quite as sensational as the earlier "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace." But in some respects, the current article is even less objective than its predecessor.

The text of the Dec. 20 story is replete with grossly partisan language, which both inflames and misinforms. Vick adopts the inaccurate language of anti-Israel activists when repeatedly labeling Israel's barrier, which is almost entirely fence, as "the Wall." Adding his own twist on the inappropriate Soviet analogy, the Time reporter goes so far as to accuse Israel of erecting an "iron curtain." And yet again borrowing from the lexicon of Israel's most extreme opponents, Vick dubs West Bank Arabs "natives," in implicit contrast with outsider Jews who are supposedly foreign to the biblical heartland.

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