Kesher Talk

Dreaming of cute suicide bombers. The NYTimes has just stooped to fawn over the teen author of a novel about Palestinian suicide bombers. Randa Ghazi is an Italian of Egyptian heritage. She has never been to Israel or the Palestinian territories, and never met a Palestinian before her book tour. She was inspired to write her novel when she saw the televised shooting of Mohammed al-Dura, which everyone in the world knows was another dastardly deed of the brutal IDF. (It later came out that Palestinian fire killed the boy but the Palestinian propaganda machine just keeps churning along, producing credulous tools like Ms. Ghazi.)

The Times article makes no mention of the fact that her protagonist (this is a teen novel, remember) glorifies killing Jews and mouths anti-Jewish stereotypes. (I am linking to the LGF post, which has the URL of the Times article, because the commenters do such a great job of fisking the Times and Ms. Ghazi.)

posted by Judith @ 12/28/2002 11:11:22 PM