Blame Israel? Pearson, The Age, January 21:
The … Coroner will release Ms Maasarwe’s body on Monday … allowing her to be returned to family …
Palestinian identity. Jennine Khalik, Guardian Australia, January 21:
The senseless killing of … Maasarwe last week was a … reminder of how news reports can erase Palestinians so easily, with multiple Australian media outlets describing 21-year-old Maasarwe as Israeli or Arab-Israeli, when she was in fact Palestinian … with Israeli citizenship … Palestinians living under Israel’s government overwhelmingly reject being called Arab Israelis … only 16% … accept the term Arab-Israeli … a label prescribed by the government of Israel.
Palestinian identity? The Arabs in Israel, December 12, 2017:
About three-fourths of those surveyed (75.7 per cent identify as Arab citizen of Israel, Israeli, Muslim, Christian or Druze, something other or didn’t know. Only 24.3 per cent of respondents identify as Palestinian citizen of Israel or Palestinian.)
Erasing Palestine? Khalik tweets, January 16:
A Palestinian woman from Haifa was the woman murdered in Melbourne.
Haifa? Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Haifa … the principal port of … (Israel) … is first mentioned in the Talmud (c. 1st-4th century CE).
Khalik tweets, January 21:
Only after the Israeli government’s week-long silence … has (Israel’s) president … sent condolences to (Aya’s) family.
Week-long silence? Embassy of Israel, January 17:
With deep sadness we … express our heartfelt condolence to (Aya’s) family and stand ready to support them … as our consul works to return her body home to Israel for burial.
Who is Khalik? ABC News:
Jennine Khalik is a journalist and digital producer (at the ABC.)
ABC Code of Practice:
The ABC has a statutory duty to ensure that the gathering and presentation of news and information is impartial according to the recognised standards of objective journalism.
And so the ABC beat goes on.
Read this revealing analysis from Cut and Paste in The Australian.
[Editor: Read what Jennine Khalik wrote for The Guardian. Funny, I thought she worked for the ABC.
And here a Palestinian activist comes out of the woodwork to trumpet her victimhood, politicising this tragic event with nonsense.
Only 14% of Israeli Arabs Identify as ‘Palestinians’, a study has found.
Her bashing of white male supremacy is patently fraudulent. She conveniently forgets that the male who did this terrible crime is aboriginal.]