The Abdulkarim/Luck duo reporting on Palestinian attitudes for the Boston-based (founded in 1908) Christian Science Monitor fails again to mention the ongoing pernicious indoctrination
Two American journalists, including an AU alumna, were released into U.S. custody last Thursday after being detained in a Syrian prison for crossing border from Lebanon aided by smugglers.
Holli Chmela, 27, a 2003 AU graduate and former Eagle staffer, and Taylor Luck, 23, claimed they were "kidnapped" by a taxi driver in Lebanon.
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For Palestinians, Biden’s win is a good step. But it’s just a step misleads readers.
The report’s authors, correspondents Fatima Abdulkarim and Taylor Luck, are no strangers to biased reporting about Israel. Abdulkarim has worked for anti-Israel propaganda entities including Iran’s government controlled Press TV and has been quoted approvingly by anti-Israel Al-Jazeera (owned by the government of Qatar). Likewise, Taylor Luck has provided flawed reporting involving Israel.
Excerpts from the CSM report provide the gist of the piece:
In the days leading up to and following the November [U.S.] election, with TV sets and Facebook feeds dominated by coverage of the U.S. race and the vote-counting dramas, everyone seemed to be weighing in on the results and their impact on the occupied Palestinian territories… many were desperate to see the back of a president who had pressured and boycotted Palestinian leadership, cut off U