Times Of Harvard

We need to acknowledge what an extraordinary moment this is. Mainstream media are finally focused on Israeli attacks on Palestinian children. The New York Times did the unprecedented, and devoted a huge portion of its front page to the images of 65 children, almost all of them Palestinian, killed during the recent onslaught. The accompanying report is almost impossible to look at, it is the face of innocence, beauty, hope, all defiled. Notes the Times:     Nearly all of the children killed were Palestinian. In all 69 children were killed, two of them Israelis. Nothing like this took place in 2014 when Israel killed 526 children. While in 2018, the New York Times ran four columnists’ justifications of Israel’s slaughter of over 200 unarmed protesters on the Gaza border, as well as the maiming of thousands more. From Jim Zogby:     Never thought I’d see the day when Palestinian victims were pictured, named, & their stories told. These children deserve to ...

 School officials in districts that enroll the majority of the country's Black and Latino students, including many of the country's big city school districts, are counting on the coronavirus vaccines to allow them to reopen safely for in-person learning – every day, for all students. But as states start administering the first vaccines in what's expected to be a historic distribution campaign to inoculate hundreds of millions of Americans, pediatricians and school and public health officials have a major hurdle to overcome: how to convince vaccine-hesitant Black and Latino families – and especially Black parents who harbor a warranted distrust in the health care system and in immunizations specifically – that the vaccine is safe and effective and the gateway to reopening schools. "Black people have every right to be suspicious of vaccinations," says Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association. "We need to acknowledge that. Don't put tha...