When a Palestinian journalist @HosanSalemG says that all Palestinian journalists support terror, is he an anti-Palestinian racist?

A photo of Hosam Salem from his Facebook pageYesterday, Gaza photojournalist Hosam Salem tweeted that his contract with the New York Times had been terminated. Here's his thread:After years of covering the Gaza Strip as a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, I was informed via an abrupt phone call from the US outlet that they will no longer work with me in the...

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In a Palestinian society where guns are cheap and violence is admired, people murder each other

In Hebron yesterday, three people were executed while driving in a car - by other Palestinians.Fighting broke out in Yatta as the news spread.This happens often. Sometimes the murders are from family feuds, sometimes from honor killings. The Palestinian Independent Center for Human Rights finds a correlation between Palestinians attacking Jews and Palestinians attacking...

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Security chaos in Gaza and the West Bank that Western media ignores

Two incidents in the past 24 hours highlight the contempt for law in the Palestinian territories.This morning, a group of Islamic Jihad militants entered a mosque near Khan Younis and (while wearing shoes) forcibly abducted three worshipers, while shooting their guns in the air.Islamic Jihad later apologized, saying that the kidnappers were not authorized. But the fact that...

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