Israel Criticism, Antisemitism and Reporting on Sabra and Shatila

To call a decent person anti-Semitic because he dares to criticize Israel

is shameful because it will make anti-Semitism respectable, and shame

upon those people who make these false accusations

against us as journalists.

We're always being told, "Oh, you're, you're biased.

You're on the side of Palestinians. You're on the side of Ara-..." No.

If we were reporting the slave trade in the 18th century, would we be

expected to give equal time to the slave ship captain?

No, we'd talk to the slaves and, and find out how many of them had died on

the

ship.

If we were present at the liberation of a Nazi

extermination camp, would we give half our story to the SS

spokesman? No.

We would talk to the survivors and the, and, and learn about the Jewish

dead. And when I was in the Sabra-Shatila camps

of

Beirut in 1982, climbing over those corpses, I

wrote about the survivors and the victims.

I did not give equal time to the Israeli excuses.