The Case of Tuvia Grossman
By Rick Gordon
Tuvia Grossman is an American student with dual Israeli citizenship, millions worldwide viewed the image on this page of the bad-ass Israeli Jewish cop brutally beating a helpless Palestinian. In reality, the Israeli cop was defending Grossman from a violent Moslem mob that had stabbed and beat him bloody. The photograph, taken in 2000 during the Second Intifada was published in The New York Times, Associated Press and other International newspapers who fictitiously reported that the Israeli police officer had brutally beaten a Palestinian.
The NY Times headline read “an Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount”.
Grossman was attacked, when his Taxi driver 'mistakenly' entered th Arab neighborhood of Wadi al-Jozwas, an area known for violent anti-Semitism, in which outsiders - particularly Jews, are routinely beaten and slaughtered.
The NY Times pro-palestinian spin was exposed by the victims father, Dr. Aaron Grossman of Chicago. Due to lobbying by Dr. Grossman, the times was forced to print a correction. Below is an excerpt from Dr. Grossmans initial complaint to the times:
" that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs, and were severely beaten and stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob."