Contrast that with
Times coverage of George Floyd’s death, beginning in April 2020. Four articles followed in May, focusing on the arrest of police officer Derek Chauvin, whose knee on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes had caused his death. There were four more articles in May, seven in June including an editorial, four in July, one in August, one in September, and another in December. The overriding theme was white racism and police brutality. On the front page on April 21, four reporters contributed articles spanning six columns that focused on the jury’s guilty verdict.
Compare overflowing
Times coverage of the Chauvin trial with its reporting on Israel’s trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, captured in Argentina in May 1960. Since Eichmann’s crimes “were committed against humanity … not in Israel but in Europe,” editors claimed that Germany, not Israel, was the proper place for his trial. Eichmann, according to the
The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the.
When leaders of the Jewish community complained about this portrayal, a compromise was reached; they removed the words “white privilege” but kept the words “conditional whiteness,” maintaining the essence of the message that Jews have social capital or
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The focus on race remained central to the rest of the lesson as well, which focuses on the multiple races found within the Jewish community. For example, the lesson includes a video on Jewish and African-American food and identity, and facts such as, “The racial appearance of Jewish Americans is very diverse and can range from light skinned to Middle Eastern to Jews of color, including African American Jews, Asian American Jews, Latino/a/x Jews, and Native American Jews. Jewish families include multiracial households, and there are diverse appearances both within families and within communities.”