The performance of teenage musicians from Jenin in Holon, Israel last Wednesday was "a shock and a surprise to the children and their relatives," according to Palestinian leader Adnan al-Hindi. Isabel Kershner, however, provides no independent statements from relatives to verify al-Hindi's claim. The reader, therefore, cannot know whether or not al-Hindi is propagandizing.
Although Kershner reports on the "widespread ignorance of the details of the Holocaust," she links that abominable fact to a piece of Palestinian propaganda. The reason for this ignorance, she writes, is "a feeling that Palestinians paid a price for" the Holocaust because Israel was established in its aftermath.
Palestinian ignorance of the Holocaust is a stand alone issue and a reason why the Conflict continues.
IK offers readers a classic case of he-said, she-said in her description of the Jenin refugee camp, "the capital of suicide bombers to the Israelis and a symbol of resistance to the Palestinians." Her problematic representation is linked to NYT's refusal to define terrorism.
The suggestion that suicide bombings earlier in the decade from Jenin were a form of "resistance" is a function of the relativism that pervades NYT reporting on Israel.
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