Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Antisemitism International
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2004) 61-71
Keywords:
Arab-Israeli conflict Mass media and the conflict
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Intifada, 1987-1993
;
Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005
;
France Foreign relations
;
Israel Foreign relations
;
Jenin (West Bank)
Abstract:
Examines how two French newspapers - "Le Monde" and "Le Nouvel Observateur" - portray the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, taking as a case study the reports in spring-summer 2002 about an alleged Israeli massacre of Palestinians perpetrated in Jenin (West Bank). In fact the Israelis, reacting to three very bloody suicide bomber attacks by Palestinians in an Israeli hotel, shopping mall, and restaurant, launched an operation targeting terrorist infrastructures. In all, 52 Palestinians were killed, many of them armed fighters. "Le Monde" published a Kenyan cartoon which equated what the Israelis did in Jenin to what the Nazis did in the Warsaw ghetto. The paper then apologized for this inappropriate comparison. "Le Nouvel Observateur" printed reportage that accepted without question the false statement of a Palestinian that his nine children were buried in the rubble of an Israeli "massacre" in Jenin. These false accusations and reports were later clarified, but they continued to resound for months to come. On the basis of the biases revealed, concludes that people are clearly less punctilious when it comes to accusing the Jewish state than when it comes to vindicating it.
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