{"id":73157,"date":"2023-02-28T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=73157"},"modified":"2023-03-03T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:39:01","slug":"reader-objects-to-jta-reference-of-terrorist-as-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/reader-objects-to-jta-reference-of-terrorist-as-gunman\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader objects to JTA reference of ‘terrorist’ as ‘gunman’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Editor:<\/div>\n
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A Feb. 28 Jewish Telegraphic Agency news item in the Crescent City Jewish News<\/a>  reported that \u201ca gunman\u201d murdered Elan Ganeles, a young man from Connecticut, on a road near Jericho. From that description, one could be misled into thinking that Elan was killed in a robbery or perhaps a road rage incident, not in an ideologically driven hate crime.<\/div>\n
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The Israeli and American governments, and every Israeli news media outlet, have described the murder as a terrorist attack and identified the killers as Palestinian Arab terrorists who attempted to murder a number of Jewish drivers passing by before they succeeded in killing Elan.<\/div>\n
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If a White supremacist singled out and shot at Jewish drivers in New Orleans, murdering one of them, would we refrain from acknowledging that the killer was motivated by a hateful racist ideology? Would we use euphemisms such as \u201cgunman\u201d instead of the correct term: \u201cterrorist\u201d? The murderer of Elan Ganeles was a Palestinian Arab terrorist and he obviously murdered Elan for the \u201ccrime\u201d of being Jewish; there\u2019s no reason to refrain from saying so.<\/div>\n
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Sincerely,<\/div>\n
Stephen M. Flatow<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Long Branch, NJ<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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