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Do not fill this in! ==== Tuvia Grossman photograph ==== On September 29, 2000, the first day of the [[Second Intifada]], the AP published a photograph of a badly bloodied young man behind whom a police officer could be seen with a baton raised in a menacing fashion; a gas station with Hebrew lettering could also be seen in the background.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=The pictures that are worth more than 1000 words|url=https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220602/https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|title=This Week in Israeli History: Tuvia Grossman – The Bloodied "Palestinian," Bar Giora and Menachem Ussishkin|url=https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220601/https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Markl|first=Florian|title="'Israel Threatens to Defend Itself': The Depiction of Israel in the Media". In Confronting Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective (eds. Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Florian Markl)|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2021|location=Berlin, Boston|pages=473–474}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Beeson|first=Patrick|title="Photojournalism." In "Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It."|publisher=McFarland & Co|year=2007|pages=184, 190}}</ref> The AP labelled it with the caption "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount", and the picture and caption were subsequently published in several major American newspapers, including the [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] and the [[The Boston Globe|''Boston Globe'']].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> In reality, the injured man in the photograph was a Jewish yeshiva student from Chicago named [[Tuvia Grossman]], and the police officer, a Druze named Gidon Tzefadi, was protecting Grossman from a Palestinian mob who had clubbed, stoned, and stabbed Grossman.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> There are also no gas stations with Hebrew lettering on the Temple Mount.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> The episode is often cited by those who accuse the media of having an anti-Israel bias, and was the impetus for the founding of [[HonestReporting]].<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=2000-10-06|title=Carnage for the Cameras|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971|access-date=September 30, 2021|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220542/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Koltermann|first=Felix|title=Fotoreporter im Konflikt: Der internationale Fotojournalismus in Israel/Palästina|publisher=transcript Verlag|year=2017|location=Bielefeld|pages=25 n.3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Photo that Started it All|url=https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/|access-date=September 30, 2021|website=Honest Reporting|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003070124/https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/|url-status=live}}</ref> After a letter from Grossman's father noted the error, the AP, the New York Times, and other papers published corrections; despite these corrections, the photograph continues to be used by critics of Israel as a symbol of Israeli aggression and violence.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-03-14|title=Nyt & Israel|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/|access-date=2021-10-01|website=National Review|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001003306/https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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