WSWS on Pearl

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 27 09:00:06 PST 2002


Bradford DeLong wrote:


>But the evidence is not that Danny Pearl was killed because people
>thought he was a CIA agent. The evidence is that he was killed
>because he was a Jew...

Supporting this point of view: <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0209/kamber.php>


>"My father is a Jew, my mother is a Jew, and I am a Jew" are the
>last words Daniel Pearl uttered, an instant before his throat was
>slashed, according to government officials who have viewed the
>videotape of his murder. At least one of his captors has admitted
>that the kidnappers were specifically looking for a Jewish victim.
>Curiously, government officials and Pearl's family, as well as his
>employer, The Wall Street Journal, are downplaying this angle, as if
>drawing attention to what is clearly an anti-Jewish killing would
>dishonor Pearl, who was not an observant Jew.



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