Jake Tapper Takes Media to Task for Making a Martyr Out of Palestinian Terrorist: ‘Heart-Wrenching...
Jake Tapper Takes Media to Task for Making a Martyr Out of Palestinian Terrorist: ‘Heart-Wrenching…CNN’s Jake Tapper took his peers to task for making a martyr out of convicted Palestinian terrorist Walid Daqqa on The Lead Wednesday. Tapper began by taking note of a poster honoring the recently deceased Daqqa at a protest at Yale and then delving into details of his case. “Walid Daqqa was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail, he died of cancer while in custody last week,” said Tapper before quoting Amnesty International’s lament that the “[d]eath in custody of Walid Daqqa is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life.” “Much of the news media coverage of Walid Daqqa’s death after his 38 years in prison was along these lines. Many stories, barely, if at all, even mentioned why Walid Daqqa was in the Israeli prison to begin with,” Tapper continued before…