I forgot to include the month in the date of the above event.

It is 12 JULY.

What breathtaking hypocrisy!

The Zionist Stern gang and Irgun, which included in their ranks Israeli ex-prime ministers Begin and Shamir, were planting terrorist bombs long before the Palestinians in the 1940s. The present day state of Israel was FOUNDED on terrorism. If Israelis had not driven the Palestinian's from their lands, there would no Palestinian suicide bombers today.

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Palestinian Deaths Aren't Headline Material at New York Times

April 12, 2002

How many Palestinian lives equal one Israeli life, according to the editors of the New York Times?

The main headline on the front page of the New York Times' April 10 final edition was "At Least 8 Killed In Suicide Bombing On A Bus In Israel." The late edition, which is available to more readers, had "13 Israeli Troops Killed in Ambush; Bus Bomb Kills 10," in the 36-point headline size that the paper reserves for what it considers major events.

Six paragraphs into the story, the paper provided this additional information: "More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin, the Palestinian town that has brought the stiffest resistance to the broad Israeli sweep through the West Bank. Many of the Palestinian dead still lie where they fell."

By its headline choice, the Times suggested that the deaths of 23 Israelis (or eight, in the final edition) are more important than the deaths of 100 Palestinians.

But even those ratios may understate the greater weight that the editors place on Israeli casualties. Beneath the main headline in the late edition were two subheads: "Worst Army Toll" and "A 14th Soldier Is Killed in Separate Attack at a Refugee Camp." The Times might have used one of the subheads to acknowledge the deaths of more than a hundred Palestinians, but evidently noting the death of a single additional Israeli soldier was considered more newsworthy.

One might suggest, in the New York Times' defense, that large numbers of Palestinian deaths have been a constant since Israel's military invasion of the West Bank began on April 1, whereas the deaths on April 9 were the first time since the offensive began that Israelis-- civilians or combatants-- had seen casualties on that scale.

But when were the hundreds of Palestinians killed considered to be major, front-page news by the New York Times? A review of the page A1 headlines used by the Times since the March 29 start of the invasion reveals a striking lack of references to the Palestinians killed in the Israeli operations. Generally the headlines were antiseptic: "Israelis Broaden West Bank Raids as Arabs Protest" (4/2/02); "U.S. Envoy Meets Arafat as Israel Steps Up Its Sweep" (4/6/02).

When an April 5 headline used the word "carnage," it was not a reference to the scores of Palestinians dying in the ongoing Israeli attack, but to a suicide bombing that had killed three (including the bomber) a week earlier.

One April 4 front-page subhead, "Bleeding to Death," did allude to Israeli killing of Palestinians-- under the "balanced" headline, "Arabs' Grief in Bethlehem, Bombers' Gloating in Gaza"-- but this was an exception to the general trend.

There's more to news than front-page headlines, of course, and the Times has done some valuable reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on its inside pages. Front-page headlines are, however, a clear indicator of what a paper's editors consider to be the most important events of the day. In the case of the powerful and prestigious New York Times, these headlines can set news agendas around the world. The Times should not use its front page to send the message that some lives matter more than others.

ACTION: Please tell the New York Times not to suggest through its headline choices that the lives of Palestinians and Israelis should be valued differently.

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Statement by british Jews for Justice for Palestine


We are a network of Jews in Britain, formed in February 2002, who oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people.

As well as organising to ensure that Jewish opinions critical of Israeli policy are heard in Britain, we will also develop ways of extending support to Palestinian people trapped in the spiral of violence and repression and help Israeli groups working with them.

We believe that such actions are important in countering rising anti-semitism and the claim that opposition to Israel's destructive policies is in itself anti-semitic.

We are working together with Just Peace UK and British Friends of Peace Now and the European Jews for a Just Peace to build opposition to the occupation among Diaspora Jews and seek to work with other organisations on specific issues without necessarily endorsing everything they do.

We do not have an official line on issues beyond general support for the principles above and support for the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel's 1967 borders. We see ourselves as a network and a forum in which people can find their own level of participation and engage in activities which they find most relevant.

I wish to add my name to the jfjfp list of signatories

Activities
We are attempting to develop activities in the following areas:

* support for Refusnik reservists in Israel

* producing web-based and printed information sheets on Israeli/Palestine relations

* support for International Solidarity Movement activities

* emergency medical support for Palestinians, through Medical Aid for Palestinians

* building support for various Israeli and Palestinian organisations working on the ground

* building a broad-based End the Occupation campaign in UK and Europe

* maintaining a website of news of the conflict, campaigns and events

Organisation
Everyone who joins as an individual is put on the general e-mail list and gets all messages sent from the moderator. If you are not on email, please send us 5 stamped SAEs and you will be kept informed.

There is no membership fee, but donations to support our work will be gratefully received. We hold regular meetings in London, Manchester and Liverpool and new groups are starting up in Bristol and Leicester.

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Lesley Abdela
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Jo Bird
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Dr Martin Birnstingl
Jon Blair
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Stephen Bloch
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David Bogod
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Hello

I'm a signatory of JfjfP. When doing a google search on my name, your site
links me through this to an event in which I didn't take part.

Although I am of course opposed to the separation wall, the event looks, on
a brief search, as though a cardboard wall was made in Manchester.

I am opposed to such symbols which in no way indicate or inform about the
seriousness of the situation, and so do not want my name to be associated
with such activities.

Please could you reformat your website so that my name doesn't appear linked
in this way?

many thanks.

Sylvia finzi