The Wire
Tues. 15 Mar. 2011 @ 12.36 –
http://justjournalism.com/the-wire/guardian-claims-palestinian-%E2%80%98shock%E2%80%99-at-itamar-attack/
Like the BBC on Sunday, Harriet Sherwood claims many Palestinians have been ‘shocked’ by the Itamar killings, also ignoring celebrations of the attack in Gaza.
Writing in today’s Guardian, Harriet Sherwood reports on the continuing repercussions of the killings in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, where five family members – including two children and a baby – were stabbed to death.
Both the headline and the article itself, suggest that, on the whole, Palestinians were upset by the killings. In ‘Israelis and Palestinians in shock after Fogel family massacre,’ the correspondent claims:
‘The murder of the Fogel family has devastated Israel, and shocked many Palestinians.’
In line with an article on the BBC that also made this claim, no evidence is supplied for the assertion that the murders have been met with shock by Palestinians, except to quote Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ issuing a harsh condemnation.
As Just Journalism noted yesterday, Palestinians actively celebrated the killings in Gaza. Getty Images/AP released a photo in which:
‘A Palestinian man distributes sweets in the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on March 12, 2011 to celebrate an attack which killed five Israeli settlers at the Itamar settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus.’
This celebration was not reported by The Guardian or the BBC despite the fact that both media organs attempted to portray Palestinians as unhappy about the killings.
See also: BBC elides Palestinian culture of encitement
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