The Israeli authorities must immediately remove a new outpost set up yesterday by Israeli settlers in the Nablus district of the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International said today.By any definition, the murder of Evyatar Borovsky was a terror attack.
The new outpost was set up following the killing of Evyatar Borovsky, a resident of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, on Tuesday.
Borovsky, a civilian who was carrying a gun at the time of the attack, was stabbed and killed by a Palestinian man who was wounded and later arrested by Israeli forces.
But look how Amnesty tries to mitigate it:
- It was a "killing," not a murder
- He lived in an "illegal settlement" - implying that he was somehow more deserving of death than someone else
- He was "carrying a gun" - implying that he was a violent person, also more deserving of death than someone else
Wow - even settlers? Thanks, Amnesty, for being so generous!
Of course, Amnesty would not mention that this gun-toting illegal usurper of Palestinian land that no Arab ever lived on was a father of five, or a well-loved and respected member of his community, or an actor working to help people overcome emotional trauma. Those facts, you see, are irrelevant. No, the only extraneous facts they mention are those that make him vaguely evil.
No such biased language is associated with Evyatar's murderer.
(h/t Gidon Shaviv)