{"id":664377,"date":"2022-05-20T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=397592"},"modified":"2022-05-20T18:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:59:18","slug":"israeli-official-claims-anger-at-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-is-rooted-in-anti-jewish-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/20\/israeli-official-claims-anger-at-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-is-rooted-in-anti-jewish-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Official Claims Anger at Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh Is Rooted in &#8220;Anti-Jewish Racism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Israel&#8217;s special envoy<\/u> for combatting antisemitism, the actress Noa Tishby, suggested this week that three prominent American Muslims were motivated by &#8220;anti-Jewish racism&#8221; when they condemned the fatal shooting of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Tishby, who was appointed to the post by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.il\/en\/departments\/news\/special-envoy-noa-tishby\">last month<\/a>, argued in a conversational but deeply misleading <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noatishby\/status\/1526964029830340610\">social media video<\/a> that only racism could explain why the killing of Abu Akleh \u2014 by gunfire that witnesses said came from an Israeli position \u2014 generated so much anger.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(oembed)[4](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22OEMBED%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22EMBED%22%7D)(%7B%22embedHtml%22%3A%22%3Cblockquote%20class%3D%5C%22twitter-tweet%5C%22%20data-width%3D%5C%22500%5C%22%3E%3Cp%20lang%3D%5C%22en%5C%22%20dir%3D%5C%22ltr%5C%22%3EIt%5Cu2019s%20been%20a%20week%20since%20the%20horrific%20death%20of%20Shireen%20Abu%20Akleh.%20It%20was%20NOT%20an%20execution%20or%20a%20targeted%20assassination.%20Sadly%20journalist%20are%20killed%20around%20the%20world%20every%20week%2C%20without%20the%20same%20global%20reaction.%20This%20is%20the%20antisemitic%20double%20standard.%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3ERest%20In%20Peace%20Shireen%20%3Ca%20href%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ft.co%5C%2FngAXjjZJKH%5C%22%3Epic.twitter.com%5C%2FngAXjjZJKH%3C%5C%2Fa%3E%3C%5C%2Fp%3E%26mdash%3B%20%28%28%28noa%20tishby%29%29%29%20%28%40noatishby%29%20%3Ca%20href%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ftwitter.com%5C%2Fnoatishby%5C%2Fstatus%5C%2F1526964029830340610%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Etfw%5C%22%3EMay%2018%2C%202022%3C%5C%2Fa%3E%3C%5C%2Fblockquote%3E%3Cscript%20async%20src%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fplatform.twitter.com%5C%2Fwidgets.js%5C%22%20charset%3D%5C%22utf-8%5C%22%3E%3C%5C%2Fscript%3E%22%2C%22endpoint%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fapi.twitter.com%5C%2F1%5C%2Fstatuses%5C%2Foembed.json%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22twitter%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ftwitter.com%5C%2Fnoatishby%5C%2Fstatus%5C%2F1526964029830340610%22%7D) --><br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s been a week since the horrific death of Shireen Abu Akleh. It was NOT an execution or a targeted assassination. Sadly journalist are killed around the world every week, without the same global reaction. This is the antisemitic double standard.<\/p>\n<p>Rest In Peace Shireen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ngAXjjZJKH\">pic.twitter.com\/ngAXjjZJKH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; (((noa tishby))) (@noatishby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noatishby\/status\/1526964029830340610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><!-- END-BLOCK(oembed)[4] --><\/p>\n<p>Pointing to an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifj.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/IFJ_white_book__part_1.pdf\"> annual report<\/a> from the International Federation of Journalists, Tishby noted that Abu Akleh was just one of more than 2,600 journalists to be killed in war zones since 1990. She also said that Abu Akleh was the only one of 12 Al Jazeera journalists on the list to have been killed in Israeli-occupied territory.<\/p>\n<!-- BLOCK(newsletter)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22NEWSLETTER%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%7D) --><div class=\"shortcode\" data-shortcode=\"newsletter\" data-campaign=\"\" data-cta=\"\" data-headline=\"\" data-layout=\"\" data-subhead=\"\"><\/div><!-- END-BLOCK(newsletter)[0] -->\n<p>What Tishby did not say is that Abu Akleh is just the latest of more than 50 journalists to have been killed in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories since the early 1990s. &#8220;Despite this shocking figure,&#8221; IFJ&#8217;s current president, Younes M&#8217;Jahed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifj.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/25_Report_Final_sreads_web.pdf\">wrote<\/a> in the 2015 edition of the report, &#8220;not one investigation conducted into the actions of the Israeli army concluded that there was any wrongdoing or fault, and certainly no one has been held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facing up to the killing of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli army, which enjoys political support inside Israel and internationally,&#8221; M&#8217;Jahed added, &#8220;will require making better use of remedies available through international law, humanitarian law, and the laws of democratic countries to demand effective investigations and bringing the perpetrators to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- BLOCK(cta)[1](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22CTA%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%7D) --><!-- END-BLOCK(cta)[1] -->\n<p>Tishby went on to claim that no one watching her video could name any of the other dead journalists \u2014 apparently expecting an audience made up entirely of people who had never heard of the well-reported murders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-47082088\">Marie Colvin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/21\/arts\/design\/james-foley-bradley-mccallum.html\">James Foley<\/a>, to take just two examples. (And by referring only to deaths in &#8220;war zones,&#8221; Tishby framed the discussion to entirely erase the waves of revulsion that followed the killings of the Saudi journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/06\/20\/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-un-report\/\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>, the Russian reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/khpg.org\/en\/1160321157\">Anna Politkovskaya<\/a>, and the Maltese journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/30\/europe\/daphne-caruana-galizia-qa-intl\/index.html\">Daphne Caruana Galizia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<!-- BLOCK(photo)[2](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22PHOTO%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22RESOURCE%22%7D)(%7B%22scroll%22%3Afalse%2C%22align%22%3A%22center%22%2C%22width%22%3A%221000px%22%7D) --><div class=\"img-wrap align-center  width-fixed\" style=\"width: 1000px;\"><!-- CONTENT(photo)[2] -->\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn04.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/05\/052022_ifj.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-article-large wp-image-397641\" src=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/05\/052022_ifj-1000x646.jpg\" alt=\"052022_ifj\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"caption\">A screenshot of an Instagram post by the International Federation of Journalists in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption source\">\nPhoto: IFJ, via Instagram<\/p><!-- END-CONTENT(photo)[2] --><\/div><!-- END-BLOCK(photo)[2] -->\n<p>The only reason for the outrage over the killing of Abu Akleh, Tishby insisted, was a double standard applied to Israel that is &#8220;purely rooted in sometimes subconscious antisemitism, anti-Jewish racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Tishby, that explains why none of the other fatalities in war zones had prompted &#8220;such vitriol, hateful, horrific reactions and rhetoric,\u201d like that from &#8220;the international community, social media celebrities and the United Nations towards Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As she made this claim, the examples that flashed on screen were condemnations of the killing from three prominent Americans \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RashidaTlaib\/status\/1524380880399130624\">Rashida Tlaib<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1524450518118150150\">Ilhan Omar<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cdg_A3LuhGy\/\">Bella Hadid<\/a> \u2014 all of whom are Muslim. Tishby made no reference to this fact and offered no explanation as to why she had singled out only criticism of Israel from Muslim Americans, but the effort to cast their anger as the product of ethnic or religious bigotry was clear.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Tishby&#8217;s claims, there was nothing racist in the criticism of Israel over Abu Akleh&#8217;s death in the comments on news reports from Tlaib, Omar, and Hadid that flashed by on screen. All three held Israel responsible, but they did so after witnesses had already said that the fatal shot was fired by an Israeli soldier. Subsequent video evidence has only made that seem more likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will the world and those who stand by Apartheid Israel that continues to murder, torture and commit war crimes finally say: \u2018Enough\u2019?\u201d Tlaib wrote in the supposedly racist section of a tweet that was highlighted in Tishby&#8217;s video.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(oembed)[5](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22OEMBED%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22EMBED%22%7D)(%7B%22embedHtml%22%3A%22%3Cblockquote%20class%3D%5C%22twitter-tweet%5C%22%20data-width%3D%5C%22500%5C%22%3E%3Cp%20lang%3D%5C%22en%5C%22%20dir%3D%5C%22ltr%5C%22%3EWhen%20will%20the%20world%20and%20those%20who%20stand%20by%20Apartheid%20Israel%20that%20continues%20to%20murder%2C%20torture%20and%20commit%20war%20crimes%20finally%20say%3A%20%26quot%3BEnough%26quot%3B%3F%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EShireen%20Abu%20Akleh%20was%20murdered%20by%20a%20government%20that%20receives%20unconditional%20funding%20by%20our%20country%20with%20zero%20accountability.%20%3Ca%20href%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ft.co%5C%2Fc2yLpM7UC1%5C%22%3Ehttps%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ft.co%5C%2Fc2yLpM7UC1%3C%5C%2Fa%3E%3C%5C%2Fp%3E%26mdash%3B%20Rashida%20Tlaib%20%28%40RashidaTlaib%29%20%3Ca%20href%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ftwitter.com%5C%2FRashidaTlaib%5C%2Fstatus%5C%2F1524380880399130624%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Etfw%5C%22%3EMay%2011%2C%202022%3C%5C%2Fa%3E%3C%5C%2Fblockquote%3E%3Cscript%20async%20src%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fplatform.twitter.com%5C%2Fwidgets.js%5C%22%20charset%3D%5C%22utf-8%5C%22%3E%3C%5C%2Fscript%3E%22%2C%22endpoint%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fapi.twitter.com%5C%2F1%5C%2Fstatuses%5C%2Foembed.json%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22twitter%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ftwitter.com%5C%2FRashidaTlaib%5C%2Fstatus%5C%2F1524380880399130624%22%7D) --><br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When will the world and those who stand by Apartheid Israel that continues to murder, torture and commit war crimes finally say: &quot;Enough&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by a government that receives unconditional funding by our country with zero accountability. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c2yLpM7UC1\">https:\/\/t.co\/c2yLpM7UC1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RashidaTlaib\/status\/1524380880399130624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><!-- END-BLOCK(oembed)[5] --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was killed by the Israeli military, after making her presence as a journalist clearly known,&#8221; Omar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(oembed)[6](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22OEMBED%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22EMBED%22%7D)(%7B%22embedHtml%22%3A%22%3Cblockquote%20class%3D%5C%22twitter-tweet%5C%22%20data-width%3D%5C%22500%5C%22%3E%3Cp%20lang%3D%5C%22en%5C%22%20dir%3D%5C%22ltr%5C%22%3EShe%20was%20killed%20by%20the%20Israeli%20military%2C%20after%20making%20her%20presence%20as%20a%20journalist%20clearly%20known.%20%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EWe%20provide%20Israel%20with%20%243.8%20billion%20in%20military%20aid%20annually%20with%20no%20restrictions.%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EWhat%20will%20it%20take%20for%20accountability%20for%20these%20human%20rights%20violations%3F%20%3Ca%20href%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ft.co%5C%2FMGSVc6jYXJ%5C%22%3Ehttps%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ft.co%5C%2FMGSVc6jYXJ%3C%5C%2Fa%3E%3C%5C%2Fp%3E%26mdash%3B%20Ilhan%20Omar%20%28%40IlhanMN%29%20%3Ca%20href%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ftwitter.com%5C%2FIlhanMN%5C%2Fstatus%5C%2F1524450518118150150%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Etfw%5C%22%3EMay%2011%2C%202022%3C%5C%2Fa%3E%3C%5C%2Fblockquote%3E%3Cscript%20async%20src%3D%5C%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fplatform.twitter.com%5C%2Fwidgets.js%5C%22%20charset%3D%5C%22utf-8%5C%22%3E%3C%5C%2Fscript%3E%22%2C%22endpoint%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fapi.twitter.com%5C%2F1%5C%2Fstatuses%5C%2Foembed.json%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22twitter%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ftwitter.com%5C%2FIlhanMN%5C%2Fstatus%5C%2F1524450518118150150%22%7D) --><br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She was killed by the Israeli military, after making her presence as a journalist clearly known. <\/p>\n<p>We provide Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid annually with no restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>What will it take for accountability for these human rights violations? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MGSVc6jYXJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/MGSVc6jYXJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1524450518118150150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><!-- END-BLOCK(oembed)[6] --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shireen dedicated her life to exposing Israeli military violence \u2014 and it is ultimately what killed her,&#8221; Hadid wrote on Instagram. &#8220;She revealed Israel\u2019s policy of letting its soldiers get away with murder,&#8221; the American model, whose father is Palestinian, added.<\/p>\n<!-- BLOCK(photo)[3](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22PHOTO%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22RESOURCE%22%7D)(%7B%22scroll%22%3Afalse%2C%22align%22%3A%22center%22%2C%22width%22%3A%221000px%22%7D) --><div class=\"img-wrap align-center  width-fixed\" style=\"width: 1000px;\"><!-- CONTENT(photo)[3] -->\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/05\/052022_hadid.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-article-large wp-image-397658\" src=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn04.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/05\/052022_hadid-1000x578.jpg\" alt=\"052022_hadid\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"caption\">A screenshot of an Instagram post by Bella Hadid, an American model whose father is a Palestinian refugee from Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption source\">\nBella Hadid, via Instagram<\/p><!-- END-CONTENT(photo)[3] --><\/div><!-- END-BLOCK(photo)[3] -->\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/05\/20\/israel-shireen-abu-akleh-journalist-killing-antisemitism\/\">Israeli Official Claims Anger at Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh Is Rooted in &#8220;Anti-Jewish Racism&#8221;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/05\/20\/israel-shireen-abu-akleh-journalist-killing-antisemitism\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s antisemitism envoy says only racism can explain the \u201chateful\u201d reactions of Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Bella Hadid.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/05\/20\/israel-shireen-abu-akleh-journalist-killing-antisemitism\/\">Israeli Official Claims Anger at Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh Is Rooted in \u201cAnti-Jewish Racism\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,340],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664484,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664377\/revisions\/664484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}