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Title: Hiding Truths from the Goyim--and Ourselves (Opinion) (Reprint)
Author : Moment
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Reference,
Pages : * pages
Size : 52 KB

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After I graduated college in 1982, the year Israel invaded Lebanon, I hosted a luncheon at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. I was an intern at the time and the speaker was Karen DeYoung, who then served as foreign editor of The Washington Post. The newspaper, then as now, was under a great deal of pressure from various Washington-based Jewish organizations for its coverage of Israel--these were the days of the siege of Beirut and the massacre at Sabra and Shatilla--and it felt compelled to invite some members of said community to the newsroom to observe the process of how it chose what stories to cover and what information went into them before they were published in the paper. According to DeYoung, a report came in from Beirut that Israeli soldiers had taken over a Palestinian think-tank and were urinating and defecating on Palestinian documents they found there in a fit of macho pique. But when the editor moved to publish this detail, the representative of one of the invited Jewish organizations demanded that it be taken out of the story because it could not possibly be true. No Jewish boy would ever do such a thing. The reporter was simply inventing it. It didn't matter that the Washington Post reporter was a professional--indeed a Pulitzer Prize winner--who had witnessed the events in question. The guy in Washington, who knew nothing whatsoever about it, knew all he needed to know to try to censor the story.