There’s been a lot of talk about a video showing an alleged “execution” of an innocent Palestinian woman at a bus stop in Afula.
It was “reported” in RT,
and in the “Palestine Chronicle.”
Although the Daily Mail appears to have changed their headline, the url gives away the original: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1220312/Amateur-footage-shows-Palestinian-woman-executed-Afula.html
The winner, I think, is this tweet, with its reference to “occupied Afula.”
Anyone who’s been paying attention so far would assume — correctly — that the woman was brandishing a knife. Here’s a video still from Israel’s News 10.
What’s less immediately obvious, though, is that the woman didn’t actually die. The Jerusalem Post reports:
In the clip, police officers and security guards are seen aiming their weapons at the woman, who had pulled out a knife and refused repeated instructions to place it on the ground.
Seconds later, the woman is shot in her lower body. She was listed in moderate condition and transported to Poriya Hospital in Tiberias for treatment.
And yet, the Post continues,
Arab lawmakers roundly denounced the police on Friday, accusing it of “executing” the woman, a 29-year-old citizen of Israel from Nazareth.
Do words still mean things?
