How a Terror-Supporting Palestinian Family Duped Ben Ehrenreich

In The Way to The Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, the American journalist and novelist Ben Ehrenreich serves up a familiar collection of anti-Israel slanders and half-truths, albeit in particularly slick packaging. Figuring prominently among Ehrenreich’s sources, and in the book’s narrative itself, are the Palestinian couple Bassem and Nariman Tamimi—the first people thanked in the book’s acknowledgments. They together with their extended family routinely conduct anti-Israel activities and extensively praise and encourage terrorism on social media. At least one member of the family has been involved in the planning of terror attacks. The question, writes Petra Marquardt-Bigman, is whether Ehrenreich is ignorant or just sympathetic: