August 10, 2006
On being a jewish journalist in france and riding around tzfat
Two unrelated items, except that I found them doing a Technorati search on Nasrallah and Haifa.
Rebecca Sinderbrand rode around Tzfat trying to avoid Katyushas. It's a pretty bleak bit of writing but fascinating nonetheless.
You only have to worry if you hear a whistle, Keren explained calmly between swigs of beer. That means the missile's close enough to hit you or reach you with a spray of shrapnel or ball bearings.
The other item is from Of Interest. It's a translation of an article from French on what it's like to be a Jewish journalist in France. There are exceptions though ...
Of course, there is Charles [Enderlin, France 2 television channel's permanent Jerusalem correspondent. Translator's note], the moral conscience; Charles, who stands for "since even a Jew and an Israeli says so"; Charles, the patent forger of the Al-Dura Case ; but the victim, what am I saying, the hero of all my colleagues! Yes but even Charles can slip sometimes. He can stumble and relapse into Jewish deviancy.
UPDATE Another view of the media's antisemitism is presented here:
Tjark Kunstreich sharply criticises (note: original in German - sd) European politics for refusing to take seriously Israel's fight against Islamic anti-Semitism and actually lending legitimacy to this anti-Semitism by promoting negotiations. Kunstreich picks up on the term of "Euro-anti-Semitism" that author Imre Kertesz recently used to describe the attitudes of Europeans. Kunstreich also takes the media to task for reporting on Israeli Jews "only as perpetrators and aggressors," whereas the Hizbullah, on the other hand, shows up "just as rarely" as does the misery of refugees on the Israeli side.
Technorati tags: Hassan Nasrallah, Haifa.
