It’s Israel’s Critics, Not Its Supporters, Who Harbor Racist Attitudes toward Palestinians
A tale of two sentences.
January 9, 2019
It’s Israel’s Critics, Not Its Supporters, Who Harbor Racist Attitudes toward Palestinians
A tale of two sentences.
On December 31, an Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian man to eighteen years in prison for the murder of a British student in Jerusalem; the culprit narrowly avoided a life sentence because of mental illness. Another Palestinian, however, did receive a life sentence on the same day: he was convicted by a Palestinian court of attempting to sell land to a Jew—a crime potentially punishable by death. Noting the scant attention paid to the second case by the Western media, which are normally so solicitous of jailed Palestinians, Stephen Daisley sees an unmistakable pattern:
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