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Weekly Review - May 28, 2002: Harper's Magazine
Pro-Israel pressure groups were organizing boycotts of major American newspapers such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, as well as many smaller publications, because they feel the news has been insufficiently solicitous of the Israeli point of view: "I would suggest," said one boycott organizer, "that there is no moral equivalence between cold-blooded murder and self-defense." Israeli Defense Forces killed a woman and her 13-year-old daughter because they were working in a field that had been declared off-limits to Palestinians.