When news coverage of antisemitism whitewashes antisemitism

RTE Ireland reports:

The only photo shown is a Star of David on the road. When I first read this story I thought that was the entire graffiti and the vandal wanted cars to run over the star, which doesn't sound that bad.

The only hint that I was wrong came in an image of a condemnation letter by Holocaust Awareness Ireland, which said that the graffiti invoked Nazi-level comparison of Jews to rats or vermin. 

One needs to go to other news sources to see a little more of what the graffiti actually included: "Jew Rat," swastikas and "USA."

But even these other stories sanitize the extent of the crime. 

Video shows that this graffiti was spread over hundreds of feet of road surface. I estimate nearly 600 feet - two football fields. And I didn't see any news article mention this fact.

This was not the only crime of omission.

I could find no news coverage of the graffiti before the council condemned it. The Journal said it had happened "in recent days" yet the graffiti spread over such a large area was not deemed newsworthy enough in itself to cover.

And the comments on the story are often rabidly antisemitic themselves.

This everyday hate is also not covered by the media. Yet this is what Jews endure day in and day out in social media and online comments. 

One other part that the comments expose very clearly is that there is no distinction between "anti-Israel" anti "Jew-hatred." 

While the news media congratulates itself on covering a story, in fact it is covering up the real stories. 

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