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Wall Street Journal Spreads False Israel "Child-Killing" Charge

(CAMERA) Andrea Levin - Killing children is terrible. Leveling false charges of child-killing against Israel in an influential newspaper like the Wall Street Journal is also reprehensible and should be forthrightly corrected to set the record straight. In two stories on July 5 and 6, 2023, reporter Stephen Kalin asserted, "Twelve Palestinians, including militants and at least five children, were killed during the operation" in Jenin. In fact, there were no "children" killed according to the normal understanding of what a child is and the depictions of those killed in other mainstream publications. Most people would assume "children" are 5- or 10-year-olds, not 16 and 17-year-old teenagers affiliated with U.S.-designated terrorist groups, who were killed in violent clashes with Israelis. Photos of the young men show some sporting the headbands of their terrorist group and all are holding guns. The New York Times, AP, Reuters, and other mainstream media did not refer to "children" killed. Reuters termed the dead teens "fighters," which they were. The Journal does not refer to other 16 and 17-year-olds as children in any other context. In the extensive coverage of the recent French riots, sparked by the killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk by a policeman, the victim is invariably called a "teenager," never a "child." The writer is Executive Director and President of CAMERA.
2023-07-24 00:00:00
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