RT: @faisalkutty “It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect … me and my rescuers from being attacked again,” Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.
Palestinian men put themselves between her and her attackers. Remember that when Palestinians are portrayed only as threats, never as people risking their lives to protect others.
As @DropSiteNews reports, Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and robbed by Israeli settlers while covering an olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. She said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them.
But perhaps the most devastating part of her account is her recognition that Palestinians endure this violence daily, with nowhere safe to go.
What happens to the people who remain after an injured journalist is evacuated and the cameras leave? Who protects the men who stepped forward to protect her?
Palestinians should not need foreign witnesses beside them to harvest their own olives. Their safety should matter whether an American journalist is there to tell the story or not.
Please watch—and support @DropSiteNews.
Mehdi Hasan
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