Lethal Journalism Making Excuses For Murderers

Two years ago Arab terrorists threw rocks at a car causing it to crash. A little baby sustained permanent brain damage and yesterday that baby died in hospital from pneumonia. She had never full recovered from the injuries sustained from the rock attack on her. Varda has written the most beautiful piece about her.

Back in August of 2013 Jodi Rudoren of the New York Times wrote a long feature piece about the rock throwing youths of a particular Arab village. Her piece started with one of the rock throwing terrorists saying this was his “hobby”. I was livid and took her to task for this. It wound up with Electronic Intifada and others saying I’d called for the killing of Arab children.

When you write sympathetic sob stories about poor little rock throwing Arab kids who are just fighting for their West Bank villages, you’re an accessory to the murder they commit.

Because of this “hobby” as Jodi Rudoren described it in the New York Times, another Jewish baby is dead. But she probably had it coming, right, because of where her parents lived.

I have more sympathy for the evil people who throw the rocks than for those ones who sip lattes among us and give them the cover to keep doing it.

Just to save you clicking, here’s what I wrote back in 2013:

In the New York Times, of course, Jodi Rudoren has another one of her now trademark gushing pieces on a “heroic” symbol of the “noble Palestinian resistance”. The poor little 17 year old stone thrower.

Rocks in Hand a Boy Fights for his West Bank Village

“Children have hobbies, and my hobby is throwing stones,” Muhammad explained weeks before his most recent arrest. “A day with a confrontation is better than a free day.”

You know what? I am pissed off that he’s being arrested by soldiers in the middle of the night for the umpteenth time. Because he should have been shot and killed already.

This kind of writing, humanising these damn savages with their rock throwing as if it’s some kind of noble endeavour, sickens me. The only reason they do this with rocks is they know we’d shoot them if they had guns.

Their intent is the same: wound or kill civilians. We should crush them and kill them and break their spirit with overwhelming force.

We stand accused of occupation anyway!

If you’re on Facebookperhaps tell Jodi what you think of her public relations work  giving these murdering children a sympathetic portrayal.

Update: Arthur pointed out the following to me on Facebook about the original Jodi Rudoren piece in the NYT:

Some things to note about the article you are referencing. She does not mention Asher or Yonatan Palmer by name. Also, even though Adelle Biton had been attacked some three months prior to the publication of this article, she was not important enough to mention. The only victim Rude-oren bothers to refer to is Palmer, who had been killed years earlier, as if there had been no victims since that time, and without his name, as if he was an urban myth.

23 thoughts on “Lethal Journalism Making Excuses For Murderers”

  1. Hard Little Machine

    One can only hope this sort of ‘horseplay’ comes to NY City soon. There are tons of bridges and overpasses from which Rudoren can exalt the masses and pitch boulders on to cars.

    1. You are advocating throwing rocks from bridges at cars???? Please say it ain’t so! You can’t be that cruel unless you are a muslim.

    2. It happened. I recall when people were throwing stones off bridges in New York many years ago.

      (And earlier version of this comment mixed this up with the murder of a Chassidic boy on the Brooklyn Bridge, but that was a shooting.)

      1. Hard Little Machine

        Well there you go. Did Mao Tse Blasio vaguely blame it on anyone but the people who did it? Terrorism is coming to America cloaked in the garb of multiculturalism.

  2. People, please stop calling for violence. I know you all don’t really mean it, and you’re just venting your anger at the injustice of this child’s murder and of those who excuse it. But, not everybody knows you don’t really mean it and the anti-Israel villains don’t need the extra ammo.
    Some decent fellow might find his way to this webpage and come away thinking the pro-Israel crowd is as bad as our enemies.
    Please try and cleave to our higher standards even moments like this. If you’re religious like myself, try to remember that a Higher Power will enact true justice in the end, and it’s neither necessary nor right for us to take retribution.
    (Targeting terrorists to prevent their next attacks is of course not retribution but prevention, and is another topic for another time. Suffice it to say, NYT writers aren’t terrorists even if they sometimes rhetorically support them.)

    1. throw a rock, get shot

      who is calling for violence?

      bran is calling for self defense

      and if you want to stick your head in the sand and be a surrender monkey, more power to ya

      but no matter what anyone on this blog says, the jew haters are going to lie and they are going to hate us

    2. ahad_ha_amoratsim

      Higher standards include using violence in self-defence and in defence of others. That means preventing a deadly attack as it is in progress or about to begin. If you saw someone aim a rifle at innocent people driving by in a car, and you had the means to kill the rifleman to keep him from shooting the innocents, even if you had to kill him to do it? Why is a rock or a firebomb any different, when they are both just as deadly as the rifle?

      1. I agree with you 100%.
        I am, rather, arguing against the people on this page who called for things like physically attacking Amira Hass (a comment since deleted by Dave), or who are “hoping” to see NYT family members similarly attacked.
        By all means, let’s stop these rock throwing murderers by any means necessary, up to and including live fire.

        1. ahad_ha_amoratsim

          Got it. I agree that violence is not a legitimate response to bad journalism or bad politics, no matter how inflammatory or disgusting.

    3. According the journalists (Amira Hess, Gideon Levi and Judy) themselves throwing rocks is a legitimate form of resistance. So Jewish resistance to terror supporting Journalists in form of rock throwing is legitimate and just.

    4. How about peaceful sit-ins outside their homes? Of course, there will still likely be violence – by the police against the demonstrators.

    5. What choice has gov’t given citizens? They mock and violate the law, abuse and abridge the Constitution, ridicule citizens, use unnecessary force for the sake of force against them, they inflame and incite violence and rioting, stir racial hatred and pit special interest groups against each other to NO purpose other than to fan the flames of hatred. Do you really think they do all this believing it won’t lead to violence?

  3. The fool lives in Israel. Adele could just as easily been her child, Asher and Yonatan her husband and son. With all of her effort to empathize with Muhammad’s mother and the concern that little M will get cold in the police station, she could not be bothered to interview either Mrs. Palmer or the Bittons, for fear that they might say something to deflect the readers’ attention away from little Muhammad.

  4. My dad’s neighbor was Rabbi Joseph Baumgarten, a true scholar who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls. On his piano as a huge stone, something that would be difficult to hold in one hand. One of his kids was driving, and the car was being stoned. His son-in-law threw himself over the kids, with just his jacket covering him to protect him.

    The news presenter on LATMA, Ronit Shapiro, was herself in a car that was stoned. Her two little kids were in the back, with glass coming in all around. On the show next week, she played her role as a good leftist, completely defending the attack upon her. (Now that’s an actress! In real life she wasn’t happy that someone tried to kill her kids.)

    Another actor who appeared on LATMA was in fact murdered in a terror attack.

  5. Of course, if the IDF hadn’t been specifically forbidden by the government to use force against “palestinians” throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails or similar acts of violence against Jews or even the IDF itself, those acts of violence never would have escalated to the lethal level that it has!!!

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