Earlier I exposed New York Times reporter Steven Erlanger's use of
erroneous anti-Israel propaganda, as well as heavy bias (
"Israeli Troops Shoot Palestinian Boy in West Bank").
The New York Times' Steven Erlanger has written
yet another article today blaming Israel for its security fence, without mentioning the word "security" once, or even hinting that that is why Israel built it.
As usual, he supports the anti-Semitic charge that Israel is an apartheid/racist state by calling the security fence a "separation barrier."
The fence has caused a decline of more than 90 percent in the number of successful suicide bombings.
This despite the New York Times'
pious self-congratulation about the neutrality of the term, when responding to reports of the errors mentioned above:
from the point of view of palestinians living in those areas, the barrier feels very much like it is going through their city. we at the times are the ones who invented the term "barrier" for the mix of fence and wall and barbed wire and guard posts so we are very conscious of the need for precision in describing it.
A survey of Erlanger's previous articles on the security fence shows a pattern of barely mentioning Israel's security.
Update (Nov. 26): The excellent
Mediacrity blog criticizes this same Erlanger piece from a number of different angles in a very entertaining style.
New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Steve Erlanger picks up a couple of favorite Times Sulzberger Template themes today -- Israel is groaning under the weight of criticism, and the Road Map for Peace is worth mentioning only when it...
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