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Why didn't the New York Times publish the exposé they commissioned of virulent racism against Africans in Israel?
janvier 2014 | Faits de société | Cinéma/TV | États-Unis
Source : Africa is a Country
© DR / on pic: Jason Spingarn-Koff, curator of the "Op-Doc" series, NYT
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Elliot Ross / Africa is a Country, blog
Début janvier 2014, des milliers de migrants et réfugiés subsahariens ont manifesté leur colère, à Tel-Aviv et Jérusalem, contre les traitements dégradants, les lois coercitives et le racisme qu'ils affrontent en Israël de la part du gouvernement ainsi que de certains citoyens.
Commandé par le quotidien New York Times (NYT) pour sa chaîne vidéo, le documentaire Israel's New Racism de 11 minutes a été réalisé par David Sheen et Max Blumenthal. Le quotidien newyorkais ne l'a pas finalement diffusé, sans explicitations précises. Le film est désormais diffusé par The Nation (New York). En octobre dernier, Elliot Ross (Africa is a Country, blog en anglais) analyse la censure du NYT.
Commandé par le quotidien New York Times (NYT) pour sa chaîne vidéo, le documentaire Israel's New Racism de 11 minutes a été réalisé par David Sheen et Max Blumenthal. Le quotidien newyorkais ne l'a pas finalement diffusé, sans explicitations précises. Le film est désormais diffusé par The Nation (New York). En octobre dernier, Elliot Ross (Africa is a Country, blog en anglais) analyse la censure du NYT.
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We've written plenty on this blog about the worsening levels of violent racism against Africans in Israel. This time last year Olufemi Terry reflected on a comment by the Israeli immigration minister: "This country belongs to us, to the white man." Last summer Miri Regev, an MP, told a rally "the Sudanese are like a cancer in our body."
David Sheen and Max Blumenthal's reporting has been vital in bringing the appalling situation to international attention, which is why it was great news when the New York Times commissioned a film from the pair on this topic for their well-known "Op-Doc" series. The film was made and then canned. For some reason, the New York Times wouldn't publish it (it eventually wound up on The Nation).
Yesterday on Twitter we asked the curator of the "Op-Doc" series, Jason Spingarn-Koff, for an explanation. If he or Kathleen Lingo, the editor who solicited the video for NYT, ever gets back to us, we'll publish their response below. When a commissioned piece gets "killed" it's customary for contributors to receive an explanation for this, but Max Blumenthal told us Spingarn-Koff refused to explain why he wouldn't be carrying the exposé.
The film can still be seen, but of course it would have got far more viewers had it been carried on the NYT and the appalling treatment of Africans in Israel would have been far harder for the extreme right-wing Israeli government to brush off. (Incidentally, some of the most shocking scenes in Blumenthal and Sheen's film had already appeared on AIAC in Talya Swissa's post on Netanyahu's re-election and the racist demonstrations that took place in Tel Aviv in December.) The NYT has a decidedly mixed record of reporting on this issue.
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David Sheen and Max Blumenthal's reporting has been vital in bringing the appalling situation to international attention, which is why it was great news when the New York Times commissioned a film from the pair on this topic for their well-known "Op-Doc" series. The film was made and then canned. For some reason, the New York Times wouldn't publish it (it eventually wound up on The Nation).
Yesterday on Twitter we asked the curator of the "Op-Doc" series, Jason Spingarn-Koff, for an explanation. If he or Kathleen Lingo, the editor who solicited the video for NYT, ever gets back to us, we'll publish their response below. When a commissioned piece gets "killed" it's customary for contributors to receive an explanation for this, but Max Blumenthal told us Spingarn-Koff refused to explain why he wouldn't be carrying the exposé.
The film can still be seen, but of course it would have got far more viewers had it been carried on the NYT and the appalling treatment of Africans in Israel would have been far harder for the extreme right-wing Israeli government to brush off. (Incidentally, some of the most shocking scenes in Blumenthal and Sheen's film had already appeared on AIAC in Talya Swissa's post on Netanyahu's re-election and the racist demonstrations that took place in Tel Aviv in December.) The NYT has a decidedly mixed record of reporting on this issue.
READ MORE on africasacountry.com
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