We at Twitchy have for quite a while been compiling headlines that report the deaths of Palestinians while omitting any context — usually that the Palestinians were killed by police during an attack. Yair Rosenberg, senior writer for Tablet Magazine, noted one of these heavily truncated headlines today on the CBS News web site.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/694905167678930944
Both Arabs & Jews are suffering from Islamic terror & this is what CBS writes?
Shame on #cbsnews pic.twitter.com/wL4JluRnRu— Mark Halawa – مارك حلاوه (@HalawaMark) February 3, 2016
That’s not that far off from Al Jazeera English’s take.
Three Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli police at Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem. More soon.. pic.twitter.com/PBJ4ZPBisV
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) February 3, 2016
That's twisting the facts.3 Palestinian terrorists fired on police officers, wounded 2 & were then killed by police. https://t.co/a8ALnOxoBP
— Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) February 3, 2016
So, could we get a little more detail on actually happened?
Today's attack in Jerusalem a step up: 3 heavily armed assailants traveled from Jenin, opened fire when spotted. Not lone wolves w knives
— Natan Sachs (@natansachs) February 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/694913428209668096
The Associated Press reports that the three Palestinians who were killed were armed with automatic weapons, explosive devices and knives, and managed to kill an Israeli security officer and seriously wound another before being shot by police. Police then defused the explosives the attackers were carrying.
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While security officers stopped one of the three men to check his ID, the other two drew guns and knives and attacked two female officers. Hadar Cohen, 19, later died.
19 y/o Hadar Cohen, the border police officer who was critically injured in today's terror attack, has died. RIP. pic.twitter.com/U6QxeqVeSL
— Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) February 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/694915444868792320
@Yair_Rosenberg @JeffreyGoldberg Guess there was sufficient outcry this time. Updated version: pic.twitter.com/Bp6eJavOkN
— Dr. Erika Dreifus (@erikadreifus) February 3, 2016
@Yair_Rosenberg Was waiting for something like that. @CBSNews idiots.
— (((Haya Eytan))) (@TeachESL) February 3, 2016
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Update:
It took CBS three tries before they managed to find an adequate headline to tell about a Jerusalem terror attack https://t.co/vdaoAQpxXg
— yaacov lozowick (@yaacovlozowick) February 3, 2016
The Times of Israel noted the outrage on Twitter, as well as the second attempt at a headline by CBS News.
The almost daily failure of Western news outlets to distinguish btwn Palestinian attackers & Israelis responding, indicates deep moral rot
— yaacov lozowick (@yaacovlozowick) February 3, 2016
#cbsnews producer 1st defended headline treating 3 Palestinian terrorists as victims,#israel Govt Press Office head revealed
— Lenny Ben-David (@lennybendavid) February 4, 2016
Attendance at funeral of Israeli policewoman Hadar Cohen, 19, today should be mandatory for all foreign journalists esp @cbsnews
— Lenny Ben-David (@lennybendavid) February 4, 2016
Todays terror victim 19yr Hadar just died – joined unit only 8wks ago & kept us safe – May Her Memory be a Blessing! pic.twitter.com/JZHDxSrIl5
— May Golan מאי גולן (@GolanMay) February 3, 2016
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