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Deborah Brand(Breitbart)
CNN, The New York Times and the BBC covered a deadly attack in Jerusalem on Friday by omitting any reference to terrorism or a terrorist.
Thirty-one-year-old eastern Jerusalem resident Hossein Karaka plowed his car into a group of people waiting at a bus stop near Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood, killing eight-year-old Asher Menachem Fali, his six-year-old brother Yaakov Yisrael, and newlywed Shlomo Lederman.
The car had a driver. That driver had an identity. And @CNN, which kept that information out of the headline and lead sentence of this story, has an agenda.https://t.co/U8nVFjyfVi
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) February 12, 2023
Ten others, including the Falis’ older brother and father, were also injured in the attack.
CNN’s headline read, “car rams people at Jerusalem bus stop,” as if cars, and not their drivers, are at fault. The only instance of the word “terrorist” was when the report quoted an Israeli official.
These are the two Innocent Israeli little Kids Asher Menachem age 8 & Yaakov Yisrael age 6 that were ruthlessly murdered by a Terrorist in car-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem and Palestinians were distributing sweets as a sign of joy celebrating death of these kids…#Israel pic.twitter.com/7QWEa2ivEG
— Jyot Jeet (@activistjyot) February 12, 2023
The New York Times at least bothered acknowledging that the assailant was a human and not an inanimate object, even if it stopped short of labeling him a terrorist. The headline the newspaper of record chose to go with reads: “At least two dead as driver rams bus stop in east Jerusalem.”
The BBC article described it as a “car ramming attack” but did not employ the word “terror.”
People gather to mourn during the funeral of eight-year-old Asher Menahem Paley near his home in Jerusalem on February 11, 2023. Menahem Paley died of his injuries from a February 10 car ramming terror attack on a bus stop in east Jerusalem that also killed his brother, Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital said on Saturday. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty)
All three news outlets took the opportunity to refer to the location of the attack in Ramot, Jerusalem’s largest neighborhood, as a “settlement” in the “occupied Palestinian territories.”
In the hours after the attack, Palestinian children in Gaza were filmed handing out baklava and other sweets to passersby in celebration of the attack. In other places, Palestinians marched clapping and celebrating the deaths of Jews.
#Gaza Strip: Palestinian children celebrate the car-ramming attack in which two #Israeli civilians were killed, including a six-year-old boy, and which left several others injured. pic.twitter.com/Lpg6V4fdbW
— AbuAliEnglish (@AbuAliEnglishB1) February 10, 2023
Similar scenes occurred in Palestinian towns all over Gaza and the West Bank less than two weeks ago in the aftermath of another deadly terror attack in Jerusalem that killed seven people.
The muezzin from the local mosque in Karaka’s eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya mourned the terrorist as a “martyr.”