[Via Josh Harvey:]
David Bernstein points out that the NYTimes can’t even bear to acknowledge that Israel calls terrorists ‘terrorists’:
“In Israeli cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, it is possible now to forget about the conflict, at least for a time. But on this side of the barrier, the conflict suffuses life. In June, Israeli forces regularly raided Jenin by night, arresting or killing young men the Army accused of being militants.”
The Times, along with most media outlets, refuses to refer to any Palestinian, even a suicide murderer, as a “terrorist.” That in itself is a highly questionable judgment. But the last sentence of the quoted paragraph suggests that Israel also refuses to refer to Palestinians it arrests as being anything other than “militants,” which is simply inaccurate. Israel doesn’t accuse the young men it arrests of being militants, it accuses them of being terrorists. It hardly seems too much to ask that political correctness regarding Palestinian terrorism be suspended when a newspaper is reporting third parties’ views.
For more on this issue, see our special report ‘Calling Terror By Its Name’
