Why Can’t the News Media Write ‘Terrorist’? By Mitchell Bard/JNS.org | May 13, 2021
Americans can’t imagine the panic of people who may have no more than 15 seconds to find shelter for themselves, their children, their elderly parents and the disabled. How can this be described as anything but “terror”?
While the American media has been focused on domestic issues, the escalation of violence in Israel has reached the level where it cannot be ignored or buried behind other stories. What remains remarkable, however, is the allergy nearly every major outlet has to accurately describing the bombardment of Israeli civilian areas with rockets as “terrorism” or labeling the parties responsible Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as terrorist organizations.
Americans can’t imagine the panic of people who may have no more than 15 seconds to find shelter for themselves, their children, their elderly parents and the disabled. How can this be described as anything but “terror”?