Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Elana Maryles Sztokman: Jewish Angle Missing From '60 Minutes' Piece on Lara Logan

If you have been following the story of how Egyptians attacked and groped Lara Logan, you should read what Elana Maryles Sztokman writes about the 60 Minutes interview in Jewish Angle Missing From '60 Minutes' Piece on Lara Logan
Some days I think, Jews are the new women. Jews are like the woman in a room full of men, the ones who are supposed to stay quiet and nice and not talk too loud or even at all, not appear in any way strong or assertive, and never make any waves. Just as society prefers women when they are passive and submissive, the world at large prefers Jews that way, too.


I thought of this as I watched the “60 Minutes” interview with CBS correspondent Lara Logan as she described being sexually assaulted on February 11 amid the uprising in Egypt’s Tahrir Square. Her graphic descriptions of hands and nails everywhere on her body — groping, grabbing, pulling and scratching — are a woman’s worst nightmare. She was the only woman on the CBS team that night, and she was isolated from her crew and throngs of Egyptian men had their way with every inch of her body, inside and out. It was a harrowing account, and most definitively a woman’s story, in the sense that it was her womanhood that made her a victim.

But it is also a Jewish story — and, actually, an Israeli one.
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1 comment:

Soccer Dad said...

In the 60 minutes transcript, there's nothing about "She's a Jew." Is it in the video? (Nor is it in her NYT interview.) I know that the NYPost reported it, citing an anonymous source at CBS. On the other hand no one has contradicted it.
If true, leaving out the "Jew" aspect is really disturbing as Logan makes a point of saying that no one warned her of the dangers of being in that position as a woman and yet that's what CBS and the NYTimes are doing regarding Jews or perceived Jews.