The Boston Globe's H.D.S. Greenway, now retired from editorial posts at the paper, frequently devotes his weekly column to distorted hectoring of Israel. He inveighs against alleged Israeli faults, passes forgivingly over Palestinian rejectionism, and is often slippery with the facts.
Yet another newspaper has published a column that wrestles with the question of when it is appropriate to label a murderer a terrorist. On September 5, 2003, Boston Globe ombudsman Christine Chinlund wrote a column entitled "Who should wear the "˜terrorist' label?" in which she explained that the newspaper's editors consider it acceptable to label attacks against civilians "acts of terror," but do not consider it appropriate to name the perpetrators "terrorists," unless they are from Al Qaeda.
Newspaper headlines about the Hamas terrorist bombing in Jerusalem — for which the death tally has now reached 17 — and Israel's strike against Hamas in Gaza that killed four members of that organization and five bystanders have very often failed to represent events clearly.
The following CAMERA letter to the editor correcting a story about Arab/Islamic art appeared in the Boston Globe on January 19, 2002.