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Media Spotlight on Anti-Israel Minority at DNC Paints Skewed Picture
(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - Pro-Palestinian activists at the Democratic National Convention received a disproportionate amount of media attention. The spotlight on this group of delegates and demonstrators helped create a skewed narrative of a Democratic Party divided between a leadership that supports the Jewish state and a base that is walking away from it. The reception that the parents of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin received when they took the stage on Wednesday - with chants of "Bring them home!" - and the attentive silence from the tens of thousands standing in the arena as the parents spoke, could have served as a wake-up call to reporters covering the DNC protests. The convention ended Thursday with presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledging to ensure Israel "always has the ability to defend itself" - antithesis to the call for an Israel embargo.