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Rationalizing the Horrors of Israel’s War in Gaza

The novelist Howard Jacobson has argued that too much press coverage of dead Palestinian children is a new form of “blood libel” against Jews.

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Hasnain says:

I don’t get why people agree to be interviewed by Chotiner. If he ever reaches out to me for an interview I’m going to hang my head in shame and run far away.

Also what the … was this guy even smoking.

"Howard, I think maybe we’re in a bit of a worrisome place if you see photos of dead children on television and your first thought is, They’re trying to make me, a Jew, hate my people.

You’ve twisted what I’ve said. That’s not my first thought. That’s not my first thought.

Second thought?

And it’s not my second thought. It all depends on how often you see them, and when you see them. You see them and you see them and that’s all you see, and then you feel, Is this what the war means to the media? This is what they want to stress again and again and again?"

Posted on 2024-10-15T08:10:30+0000