The party’s response to the killings in Tell reflected the same reflexes as the right, but their rapid correction showed that public pressure can still change a party willing to listen<\/p>\n
The initial response of the Democrats party trio to the deadly incident on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Tell \u2013 in which two Israelis and four Palestinians were killed \u2013 was disappointing. The automatic framing of what happened as a “terrorist attack,” the condolences offered only to Jewish families, the disregard for Palestinians’ right to self-defense, and the wording comprised entirely of a “heavy hand” and “defeating terrorism” \u2013 all reflected a disturbing ethnocentric reflex. In this sense, Gideon Levy is correct in what he wrote in his July 26 op-ed in Haaretz: Both the right and those who are supposed to represent the left interpret the situation through a pre-packaged construct of Jewish victimhood and Palestinian aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The party’s response to the killings in Tell reflected the same reflexes as the right, but their rapid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13135,85,46,954,43,2200,77,22171],"class_list":["post-570997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-democrats","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-politics","tag-news","tag-palestinians","tag-west-bank","tag-yair-golan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}