Tuvia Grossman

The New York Times photograph of Grossman with the misleading caption Tuvia Grossman is a Jewish American who became an icon of claimed anti-Israel media bias during the Second Intifada in 2000 when the caption of an Associated Press photograph of an Israeli police officer defending a bloodied Grossman from a violent Arab mob wrongly identified him as a Palestinian. The photograph, publicized in The New York Times , The Associated Press , The Wall Street Journal , and other newspaper publications worldwide, suggested that the Israeli police officer brutally beat a Palestinian.

The New York Times photograph of Grossman with the false caption Tuvia Grossman is an American - Israeli man who was wrongly identified as a Palestinian when the caption of an Associated Press photograph of an Israeli police officer defending him from a violent Arab mob, was published. The photograph, taken during the Second Intifada in 2000, as published in The New York Times , The Associated Press , The Wall Street Journal , and other newspapers worldwide, gave the impression that the Israeli police officer had brutally beaten a Palestinian.

American-Israeli man The New York Times photograph of Grossman with the false caption Tuvia Grossman is an American - Israeli man who was wrongly identified as a Palestinian in the caption of an Associated Press (AP) photograph of an Israeli police officer defending him from a violent Arab mob. The photograph, taken and marketed by AP during the Second Intifada in 2000, was published in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and other newspapers worldwide, and, along with the caption provided by AP, gave the impression that the Israeli police officer had brutally beaten a Palestinian.

Israeli man misidentified as Palestinian in a viral 2000 photograph The photograph's caption as it appeared in The New York Times during the Second Intifada , misidentifying Grossman as a Palestinian and the location in the background as the Temple Mount . In reality, the photograph had been taken at a gas station near Wadi al-Joz , where Grossman was attacked by a Palestinian mob after his taxi driver attempted to take a shortcut through their neighbourhood. Tuvia Grossman ( Hebrew : טוביה גרוסמן ) is an Israeli-American man who was erroneously identified as a Palestinian in the caption of a photograph that was published by the Associated Press (AP) during the Second Intifada . Taken on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in September 2000, the photograph shows an officer of the Israel Border Police defending Grossman at a gas station after the latter was surrounded, stabbed, and beaten by a Palestinian mob when his taxi driver attempted to take a shortcut through a Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem . However, the AP's caption identified Grossman as a Palestinian man at the Temple Mount , giving the impression that he had been brutalized by the Israeli police officer. It was marketed widely by the AP and featured in several Arab media and government outlets, in addition to mainstream American newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . Following the publishing, Grossman's father contacted The New York Times to correct his son's identity and reveal the true context of incident that was occurring when the photograph was taken. An article was then published by the newspaper to explain that Grossman was actually a Jewish student, that the photograph was not taken at the Temple Mount, and that the Israeli police officer—later identified as Gidon Tzefadi ( Arabic : جدعون تزيفادي ), a Druze from Kisra-Sumei —was ordering the attacking Palestinian mob to stay back. The AP publishing of Grossman's photograph highlights one of many contentious media incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . It received severe backlash from a number of pro- Israel watchdogs and advocacy organizations.