“Israel and the US bear the full responsibility of the killing of 10 Palestinians & injury of 24 others yesterday in Jenin refugee camp,” Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote
MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin also expressed outrage at Western media coverage of the incidents.
“Just a reminder, as the Western media now begins to urgently and extensively cover the attacks in Jerusalem, in which at least 8 Israelis were killed, that 30 Palestinians (9 on Thursday alone) who have been killed in 2023,” wrote
Neither man mentioned why the violence took place or who was targeted.
The Jenin operation specifically sought
While trying to stop the terrorists, Israeli troops immediately said surveillance video
Of the nine people killed in Jenin, four were PIJ terrorists, two were al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades members, and one was a police officer.
The rare daytime raid
The IDF said was killed
And that is tragic.
But it was clearly unintentional and happened only because Jenin is a haven for terrorist activity. Israel’s choice is to mount operations such as these, or wait for more of its civilians to be murdered.
That’s what happened Friday evening in Neve Yaakov. After the first terrorist attack at the synagogue, two more people were shot and wounded
In the first example of the deaths in Jenin, members of a terrorist group lost a fight with Israeli security forces. Any civilian casualties were unintended tragedies. In the other instance of the terror attacks in Jersualem, killing civilians was the objective. The more dead, the better.
In the West Bank and Gaza, people doled out candies launched fireworks
On Facebook, the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) blamed Israel
The terrorists, to JVP, bear no responsibility.
But others, like Rutgers University Associate Professor Noura Erakat
“I don’t mean to be dickish about this,” a post Erakat retweeted
Erakat also accused Israel
Erakat’s sentiments were picked up
“I may be the only Palestinian American in Congress,” she wrote, “but I will never stop reminding folks that our country is funding an apartheid regime that is killing Palestinian children & families. We honor the victims of the Jenin massacre by telling the truth about the apartheid gov’t.”
There’s no exception here honoring civilians caught in the crossfire. A member of Congress put in writing her desire to “honor” those Palestinian terrorists who died before they could kill.
And efforts made to label the Jenin counter-terrorism operation a “massacre” are reprehensible, but not new.
Israel conducted suicide bombing mostly elderly
Reports of a “massacre” surfaced immediately following the 2002 raids, and media outlets falsely reported that as many as 1,000 Palestinians were killed changed at least half
These consistent omissions about Palestinians who die at Israeli hands are intentional. A “Palestinian youth showing the world
“This squad [in Jenin] was a ticking time bomb,” a senior IDF officer told
Had that happened, more innocent Israeli civilians would be dead, and the same terrorists likely would be killed by Israeli forces. In that circumstance, we wouldn’t hear voices like Nihad Awad, Ayman Mohyeldin, and Rashida Tlaib condemning anything.
If your biggest concern in the wake of Jenin and Jerusalem is a paucity in telephone alerts, it might be time to re-evaluate your values.
Ariel Behar is an Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) research analyst. Research analyst Teri Blumenfeld contributed to this report. A version of this article was originally published by IPT.
