Carnage for the Cameras

The misidentified photo Tuvia Grossman and an Israeli policeman.

By Robert L. Pollock, assistant editorial features editor of the Journal.

L ike many Jews at the end of last week, Dr. Aaron Grossman of Chicago must have been following the escalating violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories with great concern. All the more so when he discovered the Sept. 30 edition of the New York Times was carrying a picture of his son Tuvia, in obvious pain and bleeding profusely, backed by an angry looking, baton-wielding Israeli officer. Imagine his surprise when he read the caption: "An Israeli policeman and a wounded Palestinian yesterday." According to Dr. Grossman and other relatives, Tuvia (now recovering) and two friends were pulled from a taxi in Jerusalem by a mob of Palestinian Arabs, then beaten and stabbed.

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