Ha’aretz reporter brags of his pro-Arab reporting
From The Nation, by Ha’aretz Arab apologist Akiva Eldar, preaching to the choir:
“The prominent Israeli columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in November 2000 (in a publication of the Israel Democracy Institute) that “there are Israeli reporters who do not pass the ‘lynch test.’” These, he wrote, are journalists who could not bring themselves to criticize the Arabs even when two Israelis were savagely murdered by a mob in Ramallah. Barnea, who last year was awarded the Israel Prize for journalism, went on to argue that our support for the Palestinian position is absolute. He concluded, “They have a mission.” I was honored to be mentioned as one of those journalists, alongside my fine colleagues Gideon Levy and Amira Hass.
“I admit to being guilty as charged. I am a journalist with a mission, and also no small amount of passion.”