Why You Haven’t Seen This Shocking Photo

another day at the UN by Mike cartoon

Two weeks ago the media universe was fixated on a series of photos seeming to depict an Israeli soldier in a scuffle with Palestinian children and women. Although later exposed by Israellycool as a Pallywood production, the choreographed scene perfectly matched mass media’s etched in stone narrative for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Photos and videos from the incident were featured prominently in virtually all major news outlets, adding grist to the anti-Semitic mill. But there is another, more recent photo of a Jew and Arab women that you have not seen. Allow me to explain.

Photo Credit www.el-balad.com Via Yeshiva World News
You won’t see this photo in the NY Times. Photo Credit www.el-balad.com Via Yeshiva World News

The Jewish world has met the New Year of 5776 upon a worldwide wave of anti-Semitism. Reports tumbled one atop the other, whether it be assaults on Jews from Amsterdam to  Manchester or the election of an Israel hating Labour leader in London to the anti-Semitic expectorations of a prominent American news pundit. But no individual photo more dramatically depicted the resurgence of the world’s oldest hatred than that of a Jewish teenager, garbed in prayer shawl and teffilin, beaten to the ground and mocked by an Arab mob. You have most likely not seen this photo taken on the eve of the Jewish New Year, or the disturbing video of the same teen running for his life through the narrow streets of Jerusalem’s old city while being shoved and pelted by Palestinians for the sole offense of being a Jew.  The photo is dramatic, informative and hearkens back to horrific images of  decades past. But you will not see this photo in The New York Times or on the BBC as it does not fit the Israel as oppressor narrative.

Video of  the incident  (below) with the youth running for his life while Arabs assault him as he runs by.

10 thoughts on “Why You Haven’t Seen This Shocking Photo”

  1. I’ve seen this pic pop up on my fb feed. There is no evidence here that this kid was pushed or tripped. Its quite likely that he tripped considering the hard to manage steps of the shuk and that the hareidi have been running up and down the steps to the kotel. Secondly the women don’t seem to be exactly cheering his fall or happy. Using this photo to prove the evil of the Arabs is not convincing.

    1. Kathy Prendergast

      I dunno, the woman garbed all in black with her hands raised looks pretty happy. Anyway Mike mentioned there is also a video of the incident; perhaps that would make it more clear what actually happened than just a picture.

    2. The video shows the boy running and banging into the first man. Then the man throws something at the boy as he gets up and begins to run again, when the second man throws his leg up in an attempt to trip him. The women are yelling and throwing items at him. While the video doesn’t prove that Arabs are evil, it does provide evidence that this group of people were not compassionate toward the runner at all. My question is why was the young man running in the first place?

    3. Did you not notice the Arab woman’s foot right where his legs would have been if had still been walking? Look at the picture closely.

  2. Kathy Prendergast

    Reminds me of an incident in Jerusalem a few years ago;, where the image of a bloodied and beaten young man appeared in the media labelled as a “Palestinian” man beaten by Israeli soldiers….turned out he was actually an Jewish man who had been set upon and beaten by Arabs. Oops!

  3. Kathy Prendergast

    I’ve watched the video; the first part is very fast and confusing; shows the kid running very fast down a crowded narrow street and definitely he seems scared and it looks like something is thrown at him from behind him, he collides with a man, I presume an Arab and he falls over and as he’s getting up the Arab man hits him or at least swings at him and then the boy keeps running…then it cuts to a scene of the Israeli police escorting him away, and his head is bloodied, and he’s protesting and seems very upset. I don’t speak Hebrew so have no idea what he’s saying. I get the impression that one of the problems in Israel is that secular Israelis have very little sympathy for religious Jews, or at least the ultra-Orthodox or Haredim, perhaps (not unjustifiably) because so many of them refuse to serve in the military. The police in this video certainly don’t seem to be treating the youth with much sympathy; they seem annoyed with him for making trouble.

    1. What annoys us is they run. They don’t fight back. They expect us to go to the army and defend them while they dodge the draft. It is annoying not to say the least!

  4. He was running a gauntlet of Islamofascist jihadist terrorist racists. The Muslim has no fear of the IDF or police. Why?

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