Rachel

Do you know who Rachel Thaler is? Or Rachel Levy? Or Rachel Levi? Or Rachel Gavish? Or Rachel Charhi? Or Rachel Shabo? Or Rachel Kol? Probably you don't. But you do know who Rachel Corrie is. Tom Gross looks into that difference (free registration):

Rachel Thaler, aged 16, was blown up at a pizzeria in an Israeli shopping mall. She died after an 11-day struggle for life following a suicide bomb attack on a crowd of teenagers on 16 February 2002.

Even though Thaler was a British citizen, born in London, where her grandparents still live, her death has never been mentioned in a British newspaper.

Rachel Corrie, on the other hand, an American radical who died in 2003 while acting as a human shield during an Israeli anti-terror operation in Gaza, has been widely featured in the British press.
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Thaler is by no means the only Jewish Rachel whose violent death has been entirely ignored by the British media.

Read the rest. (Thanks: MK.)