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This headline in The Guardian suggests real Palestinians were quoted condemning the Itamar massacre. But here's the extent of the…

This headline in The Guardian suggests real Palestinians were quoted condemning the Itamar massacre.

But here’s the extent of the “shock” and “anger” on the Palestinian side of the divide Harriet Sherwood describes:

The murder of the Fogel family has devastated Israel, and shocked many Palestinians. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, described the killings as “inhuman and immoral”.

Who comes up headlines like this?

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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