Reality check Charles Dodgson explains the pertinence of the Boston Massacre to the propaganda war over Jenin. As Dodgson points out, the facts about that incident were nothing so dreadful as revolutionary American propaganda made them out to be—and yet note the name we remember it by.

Just a thought on the use of the M-word —- and on how it will continue to be used by those with an axe to grind. Palestinian casualty estimates now more or less agree with initial reports from the Israelis, which means only that for Palestinian propagandists and their partisans, fifty-odd deaths are enough. No need to be fussy about the details.

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