CAMERA - Updated: English Ha'aretz Covers Up Palestinian Violence

Tamar Sternthal
CAMERA Media Analysis
25 September '11

(Today, Haaretz did  report on it's English site on "Fatal West Bank car crash caused by Palestinian stone-throwing", which occurred Friday. A decided improvement over it's norm. Y.)

Sept. 25 Update: "Ha'aretz Headline Again Erases Violence"

Sept. 22 -- For years, Snapshots, CAMERA's blog, has been highlighting how the English edition of Ha'aretz, relied upon by Western journalists, diplomats and opinion makers, has a tendency to cut out and and/or alter critical information appearing in the Hebrew version of the newspaper. Invariably, as our "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation" series points out, the English edition downplays or omits information that portrays the Palestinians in a negative light.

A page-two article in today's paper brings a new, striking example of the ongoing phenomenon. In the print edition, the article is headlined: "First day of protests passes peacefully as PA police keep demonstrators in their cities."

Yesterday's Palestinian protests "pass[ed] peacefully"? The headline writer, it appears, got carried away. One only has to read the accompanying article in English to learn that while Palestinian forces did manage to largely contain protests within Palestinian cities, yesterday's events did include violent incidents. Anshel Pfeffer writes:

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