Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Are You Offended By This?

A Guest Post By E. Fink

Last week a 60 year old woman was arrested for trying to smuggle 44 iPhone 4s into Israel.

I'm not an alarmist when it comes to anti-Semitism. Nor do I look to be offended by any slight bias or ignorance from the media when it comes to frum Jews.

However, this photo on Gizmodo is borderline offensive:



See, the photo is a stock photo, it has nothing to do with the article. But it implies that the woman who was arrested was a charedi woman, dressed in Charedi garb. However, the article is about a woman dressed in traditional Georgian garb smuggling 44 iPhone 4s into Israel.

While I can see how traditional Georgian garb could be confused with traditional Polish garb such as the Charedi garb of 2011, the photo does more than illustrate traditional garb at Ben-Gurion, it subliminally suggests that the woman was Charedi.

For all we know, she could have been Charedi. But no news reports even hint that she was.


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