# Why doesn't the New York Times cover the race riots in Tel Aviv? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044 "2012-05-25T04:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/1 "2012-05-25T04:51:17Z")
This is reported in the UK’s left leaning Guardian. But it doesn’t appear to have attracted any coverage in the New York Times or other US newspapers? 😕 > [@](#): > > Dozens of African asylum seekers were injured as race riots broke out in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night. > > Thousands of protesters joined politicians to protest against the arrival of an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers in Israel in recent years. But after inflammatory speeches the demonstration broke out into violence. > > Witnesses reported seeing men and women being beaten and shops and properties being attacked. Police said nine people were arrested. > > The protesters were addressed by politicians including Miri Regev and Danny Danon of the ruling Likud Party. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, Regev described the asylum seekers as a “cancer in our body,” and promised to do everything “in order to bring them back to where they belong”. > > Danny Danon, who heads a lobby group which seeks to deal with the issue of illegal immigration, said the only solution to the problem would be to “begin talking about expulsion”. > > “We must expel the infiltrators from Israel. We should not be afraid to say the words ‘expulsion now’,” he was reported as saying. > **[African asylum seekers injured in Tel Aviv race riots](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/24/tel-aviv-protest-violence-immigration?newsfeed=true)** > > Violence breaks out after inflammatory speeches as protesters join politicians to demonstrate against rising Israeli immigration ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/2 "2012-05-25T04:58:12Z")
Stop speaking in code and say what you really mean. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/3 "2012-05-25T04:58:42Z")
> [@Chen019](#): > > This is reported in the UK’s left leaning Guardian. But it doesn’t appear to have attracted any coverage in the New York Times or other US newspapers? 😕 Americans don’t care as much about foreign affairs as many other countries do. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/4 "2012-05-25T05:04:24Z")
They have: [http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/african-migrants-attacked-in-tel-aviv/](http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/african-migrants-attacked-in-tel-aviv/) ---
**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/5 "2012-05-25T08:00:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Stop speaking in code and say what you really mean. I’m not sure. Is it because they are biased in favor of Israel? Is it because they support Netanyahu, but can’t say so because it would contradict their position on immigration generally? How do you explain it? ---
**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/6 "2012-05-25T08:14:05Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > They have: > > [African Migrants Attacked in Tel Aviv - The New York Times](http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/african-migrants-attacked-in-tel-aviv/) Cheers. I now see the [WaPo have reported the recent attacks too](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/political-and-emotional-backlash-against-swelling-number-of-african-migrants-in-israel/2012/05/25/gJQAY20woU_story.html). So maybe just LA Times out of the major papers that have ignored it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/7 "2012-05-25T08:40:09Z")
Is this supposed to be in the Pit? You seem to be offering some sort of veiled rant against the liberal/lamestream/mainstream media. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/8 "2012-05-25T09:35:48Z")
Can we ever have an Israel related thread without feeling suspicious of everyone and walking on eggshells. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/9 "2012-05-25T10:56:17Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Can we ever have an Israel related thread without feeling suspicious of everyone and walking on eggshells. Not when it’s posted by **Chen019**. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/10 "2012-05-25T11:41:55Z")
It was on NPR the other day. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/11 "2012-05-25T12:32:47Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Can we ever have an Israel related thread without feeling suspicious of everyone and walking on eggshells. Come for the antisemitism, stay for the racism! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/12 "2012-05-25T12:47:58Z")
Maybe it’s because it’s a big world, and while the riot was major local news (above the fold in every newspaper in Israel), it just wasn’t that large as these things go - I live about a 20-minute walk away, and I didn’t even hear about it until the following day. I know that Jews are News, but that doesn’t mean that everything that happens here is automatically a major global news event. I mean, sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-cover-the-race-riots-in-tel-aviv/623044/13 "2012-05-25T12:52:46Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Is this supposed to be in the Pit? You seem to be offering some sort of veiled rant against the liberal/lamestream/mainstream media. That’s his entire modus operandi.