America’s reporting on Palestine has always been biased

From a riot during the British Mandate to Martha Gellhorn’s smears of refugees, American coverage has never been fair

In 1929, Vincent Sheehan, one of the top foreign correspondents of his day, was in Jerusalem—on assignment for a periodical put out by the Zionist Organization of America, though he had vowed to its editor that he “would not write political propaganda, that a description of the country and the Zionist colonies [settlements] would have to be enough.” On …