The United States Must Stand Up for One of Its Own
Updated at 12:52 p.m. ET on June 7, 2022.
When the Palestinian American journalist and longtime Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed on May 11 while reporting on an Israeli military raid in the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, competing narratives quickly began to take shape. Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Authority laid the blame squarely on Israeli soldiers who, according to onlookers, fired a series of rounds at a group of journalists, striking Abu Akleh through the gap between her helmet and her protective vest marked press.
Israeli leaders first at a Palestinian gunman (a claim that was soon by an Israeli human-rights group) and then at no one, that the fatal shot could have come from either side. A by CNN—including video, photography, eyewitnesses, and geo-data—suggested Abu
