Wednesday, November 21, 2012

the racism of Jodi Rudoren

"Jodi Rudoren, the New York Times correspondent who has been in Gaza for several days now, has an active Facebook page on which she has lately posted some critical observations about Palestinian culture that are reminiscent of Mitt Romney's comments last July that got the former Republican presidential candidate in such hot water.
Rudoren's comments include the statement that Israelis are more "traumatized" by projectile fire than Palestinians because Palestinians, having a culture of martyrdom, "have such limited lives than [sic] in many ways they have less to lose." Here's an excerpt of that post (screenshot above):"