Tuvia Grossman

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Tuvia Grossman is an American Jew who was falsely identified as a battered Palestinian during the Second Intifada in 2000 . The Associated Press released a picture showing him slumped bleeding in front of an Israeli police officer with a raised baton.

background

Grossman, who studied at the English-language yeshiva Bais Yisroel in Neve Yaakov in East Jerusalem, was traveling in a taxi with two friends in the Arab quarter of Wadi el-Joz . The vehicle was stopped by a mob of 40 Arabs, the students were dragged from the taxi, beaten and mistreated. Grossman managed to escape to a gas station, where he was protected by an Israeli police officer. At that moment the photo was taken.

The picture was published during the Second Intifada in the New York Times , the Associated Press , the Wall Street Journal and other media around the world. It was only later revealed that it was not a beaten up Palestinian.

Tuvia's father complained to the NYT in a letter to the editor, which generated considerable press coverage. Likewise were Libération and AP sentenced to pay damages.

The policeman Gideon Tzefadi is an Israeli Druse and former chief superintendent of police in East Jerusalem. Ten years later he met Grossman, who now lives in Israel.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Victim of the Media War Tuvia Grossman in Aish HaTorah
  2. ↑ The Photo that Started it All ( Memento from January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the Honest Reporting portal
  3. ↑ Middle East conflict picture market: ethnological studies on the practice of war photography, Martin Heidelberger LIT Verlag Münster, 2008 - page 96
  4. ^ Greg Myre, Jennifer Griffin: This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict . John Wiley and Sons , 2011, ISBN 978-0-470-55090-8 , pp. 80 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Gerhard Falk: Fraud: Deceit Among Scientists, Academics, Writers, and Philanthropists . University Press of America , 2007, ISBN 978-0-7618-3858-6 , pp. 116 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ William David Sloan, Jenn Burleson Mackay: Media Bias: Finding it, Fixing it . McFarland & Company , 2007, ISBN 978-0-7864-3042-0 , pp. 184 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ See you after 10 years (video) , Honest Reporting
personal data
SURNAME Grossman, Tuvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Jew, mistakenly identified as a Palestinian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century