We don’t think the picture below, of a young man killed in occupied Hebron by Israeli forces and surrounded by illegal settlers, would ever show up in the New York Times. And while you can say that it is too grisly for the paper of record, it has already gotten wide attention from people who care about Israel’s occupation because of the attitude it documents. The photo appeared in the Gulf News with an AFP credit; then we saw it after it appeared on writer Susan Abulhawa’s Facebook wall — “In my original post I wrote ‘visit Israel’ but really… there just are no words,” she explained to us — and scholar Steven Salaita then retweeted the image and wrote:

The Palestinian body finally achieves the approving gaze of the settler:

Here is the Gulf News account of the killing, from Nasouh Nazzal:

occupation forces shot and killed another Palestinian teenager on the same day on Al Shuhada’a Street in Hebron during a peaceful protest, raising the death toll to two in less than four hours. Hebron sources said that Palestinian teen Farouq Abdul Qader Sedr, 18, was shot by an occupation soldier before the eyes of heads of legal and human rights organisations during the protest, after the occupation forces ordered Palestinians gathering on Al Shuhada’a Street, opposite to the Jewish colony outpost of Beit Hadasa, to move out of the area. The occupation forces claimed that the teen attempted to stab a solider but his attempt was foiled and he was killed. “A sheer lie witnessed by hundreds of eye witnesses and documented,” said the sources.

Steven Salaita was fired by the University of Illinois last summer because of a series of savage tweets he posted during the Gaza slaughter. He is teaching at the American University of Beirut and has lately published a book on his experience, Uncivil Rites — and he continues to tweet.

We mean no disrespect to the victim, Farouq Abdul Qader Sedr. We are aware that often the press does observe privacy for people in wealthy countries and not in poor ones, but this picture says too much to be omitted.