The Caption Said What?

Here’s another curious photo-and-caption combo, courtesy AFP:

A Palestinian boy walks on the rubble of a destroyed building at a Hamas sports club following an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Strip, 29 May 2007. Britain’s largest trade union for academics voted Wednesday to back calls for a boycott of universities in Israel in protest at the nation’s treatment of Palestinians.(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)

It would be bad enough if editors of local dailies were to associate the air strike with the boycott and write a caption linking the two in the context of an article on the UK vote. But why did Hams himself choose to make such an association himself? A more accurate context, in this case, would be the Qassam rockets fired daily at Sderot and the western Negev.

Here’s a similar example from earlier this month.