When it Comes to Al-Dura, Journalists Are Against Free Speech
It sounds like gang warfare, with the Cliques [Enderlan and the signatories] facing off against the Outlanders [Karsenty and his fellow seekers of wisdom and truth], and Richard Landes gets it just right:
“I put up the following astonishing ‘public letter of support’” for Charles, that paragon of journalistic virtue who is inexplicably allowed to be the target of criticism from people who are not part of the clique. It’s classic ad hominem with no regard for the evidence. In the future, these cosigners will be part of a list of ignominy, the in-crowd that kept the al Durah affair from seeing the light of day for so long. Amazing.”
Against the need to regain lost “honor” amongst their peers, mere truth is nothing to the Cliques. As Shelby Steele wrote In another context regarding what motivates leaders of the Islamist terrorist community, they “have used menace to make their people visible in the world, to bring them back into the scheme of history.”
