{"id":84431,"date":"2021-03-10T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=84431"},"modified":"2021-03-10T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:42:34","slug":"17-05-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=84431","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Covers Up for a Terrorist \u2014 and Smears Golda for Good Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New York Times Covers Up for a Terrorist \u2014 and Smears Golda for Good Measure<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Stephen M. Flatow \/ JNS.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The New York Times logo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When is a Palestinian terrorist not a Palestinian terrorist? When The New York Times<\/em> covers up her past and hopes nobody will notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m referring to a deeply troubling allegation contained in a major article in the Times<\/em> on March 6, authored by its new Jerusalem bureau chief, Patrick Kingsley.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article focused on a Palestinian disc jockey, Sama Abdulhadi, who was recently arrested by the Palestinian Authority for performing a concert near a mosque. Incredibly, Kingsley quoted Abdulhadi and others blaming \u201cthe Israeli occupation\u201d for the mistreatment of Palestinian dissidents by the PA. I\u2019m going to leave that absurdity aside because of an even more disturbing part of the article.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an apparent attempt to show the continuity of alleged Israeli misbehavior from generation to generation, Kingsley wrote that in 1969, \u201cthe Israeli authorities expelled her grandmother, Issam Abdulhadi, a leading women\u2019s rights activist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That statement puzzled me. Could it be true? Since when is \u201cwomen\u2019s rights activism\u201d a crime? Would Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir\u2014herself the living embodiment of advocacy of women\u2019s rights\u2014have authorized the deportation of a Palestinian woman for being a women\u2019s rights activist?<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have the vast journalistic resources or investigative reporters that Patrick Kingsley and The New York Times<\/em> have at their disposal. But I do have access to Google.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I Googled Sama\u2019s grandmother, Issam Abdulhadi. I looked up several variant spellings of her last name, such as Abd el-Hadi, Abd al-Hadi, Abdul Hadi and the Times\u2019 <\/em>version, Abdulhadi. Even with all those variations, it took me about five minutes to discover the real reason that Sama\u2019s grandmother was deported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here I\u2019m only going to cite sources friendly to Issam Abdulhadi and her own words so that nobody can accuse me of being biased against her. (I\u2019m going to refer to Issam by her first name so as not to confuse her with her disc jockey granddaughter.)<\/span><\/p>\n

On a Facebook page called \u201cThe Uprising of Women in the Arab World,\u201d I learned that \u201cthe Israeli authorities accused Issam of supporting and hiding the Palestinian guerrillas and their ammunition \u2026 .\u201d Hmm. That sounds like considerably more than \u201cwomen\u2019s rights activism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The website \u201cPalestinian Journeys\u201d offered a little more detail: Issam and her daughter \u201cwere charged with supplying the resistance with material aid and hiding freedom fighters wanted by the occupation authorities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An interview with Issam, conducted by the Palestinian Women\u2019s Research and Documentation Centre in 2006 (translated into English by the publication The Palestinian Revolution<\/em>), is especially revealing. It shatters the Times\u2019s <\/em>claim that she was merely a \u201cwomen\u2019s rights activist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the interview, Issam describes how in 1965, one year after the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization, she and some of her friends decided that \u201cwe would form the women\u2019s wing.\u201d They called it the General Union of Palestinian Women; Issam was chosen as president.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note the year: 1965. At the time, there were no \u201coccupied territories.\u201d There were no \u201cIsraeli settlements.\u201d The \u201cPalestine\u201d that the Palestine Liberation Organization was trying to \u201cliberate\u201d was all of pre-1967 Israel\u2014in other words, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheva. The PLO didn\u2019t even pretend that it was willing to live in peace with Israel. It was openly a terrorist organization and was unabashedly seeking the destruction of Israel. And Issam was in charge of its \u201cwomen\u2019s wing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Issam boasts in the interview that she was \u201cone of the first female participants in writing the Palestinian National Charter.\u201d Yes, the infamous charter that called for \u201carmed struggle\u201d to wipe Israel off the map. She also mentions that she was visited in her home by Yasser Arafat: \u201cIt\u2019s true I received him in our house, we spoke, and we did what he and his group wanted \u2026 .\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Issam says in the interview about her arrest in 1969:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey accused me of many things, some of which were real while other charges were out of my league. The most important charge was providing financial assistance to the armed resistance and harboring fida\u2019een <\/em>[terrorists]. Harboring fida\u2019een<\/em> was the most dangerous thing; they don\u2019t allow it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She continues: \u201cA person should never admit; the most important thing is not to admit. I managed to deny many of the charges. Unfortunately, however, one of the [PLO] leaders who was related to me in one of the charges against me was the one to confess. \u2026 Now they had confirmation on this topic, supporting and harboring fighters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As I see it, there are two possible explanations for what Kingsley of The New York Times<\/em> did.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, he didn\u2019t do the basic research. Perhaps he simply assumed Golda Meir\u2019s government was guilty of deporting Issam for being a \u201cwomen\u2019s rights activist\u201d and rushed to print that smear without verifying its accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or, second, perhaps Kingsley did take a few minutes to find out the truth about the reasons for the deportation but then chose to cover it up, leaving Meir and her government to look like evil oppressors of women\u2019s rights activists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, this is a clear case of journalistic malpractice. It requires an immediate apology, as well as a retraction by Kingsley and his editors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stephen M. Flatow<\/strong> is a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, an attorney in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He is the author of \u201cA Father\u2019s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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