Blaming Israel for Palestinian violence is racist: it denies that Arabs are moral agents

The Telegraph - Alan Johnson - 20 November 2014

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There were some odd media reactions this week to the murder of four Jews at prayer (and the heroic Israeli Druze first responder Zidan Saif who tried to rescue them) by two Palestinians perpetrators in Jerusalem.

Examples include:

The Canadian Broadcast Company:

tweeted "Jerusalem police fatally shoot 2 after apparent synagogue attack''

The CNN headline read:

"4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians dead in Jerusalem" without noting that the two Palestinians were the terrorists.

The Guardian:

altered a Reuters dispatch about the massacre in Jerusalem to remove any reference to Palestinians.

In the Left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz:

the writer Amira Hass wrote about "the despair and anger that pushed the Abu Jamals to attack Jews in a synagogue (emphasis added).