SOM EXCERPTS FOM FLAME: THE FBI INVESTIGATION IS AN AMERICAN SLAP IN THE FACE FOR ISRAEL

The FBI just announced it is beginning an investigation of Israel for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s death last May

A Jerusalem Post house op-ed called it an American “slap in the face for Israel.” 

 

FLAME

December 6, 2022

 

 

Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in Jenin during a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists on May 11, 2022

Since 1990, some 2,658 journalists have been killed—many in war zones, most murdered for their reporting. Fifteen American journalists have been killed this year in Ukraine alone. Where are the FBI investigations? 

Forty-nine Americans have been killed by Palestinian terrorists —intentionally—since August 9, 2001. No FBI investigations. 

Indeed, the U.S. itself is guilty of killing journalists in combat zones. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, U.S. forces killed 13 journalists in Iraq. But of course, those were American forces, not Israelis. No FBI investigations.  

One thing is clear: U.S. partisan members of Congress—and our supposedly non-partisan FBI—are using a double standard against Israel in the Akleh case—and that fits the definition of antisemitism like a glove. 

Only Israel is singled out, because, per renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, Israel is the Jew among nations.