(Washington Jewish Week) Andrea Levin - The New York Times compares the latest Gaza flotilla, led by radical anti-Israel extremists and terrorist groups, with the efforts of Holocaust survivors in pre-state Israel to breach the British blockade onboard the Exodus. The outrageous, false analogy is cast as the viewpoint of "some" unnamed persons who "see a parallel." The thrust of the newspaper's nearly daily dispatches conveys a seemingly irrepressible impulse to mute and distort the openly expressed aims of the Palestinians themselves with regard to Israel, to focus instead on indictments of the Jewish state and to belittle Israeli concerns. The disparagement is echoed in the bizarre use of, for instance, the word "scuffle" to characterize the attacks on Israelis during the 2010 flotilla crisis. Soldiers were beaten unconscious, stabbed and thrown off an upper deck, prompting an extensive, violent exchange in which nine flotilla members were killed. The writer is president and executive director of CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, www.camera.org.
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