On Jan. 6, the Israeli government provided foreign reporters with an exhaustive study of incitement against Israel and Jews by Palestinian Authority media and textbooks. The Israeli presentation received considerable coverage by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In terms of journalistic fairness, however, their articles were strikingly dissimilar. Jodi Rudoren, the Times' Jerusalem bureau chief, plays it fairly straight, leading her dispatch with concrete examples of Palestinian incitement -- Hitler quotes on websites of PA schools; a girl on Palestinian TV describing Jews as "barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs" and "murderers of Muhammad; Palestinian maps erasing Israel; Mahmoud Abbas embracing as "heroes" released Palestinian killers of Israelis. ("Israeli Officials Point to an Intensifying Campaign of 'Incitement" by Palestinians" Jan. 7, page A4) In all, Rudoren devotes 4 paragraphs in an 18-paragraph piece to rebuttal arguments by Palestinians. Overall, readers are left...(Read Full Post)