Neda Agha-Soltan is a young women from Iran who was shot dead while protesting against repression in Iran. She has a page on Wikipedia. Photos and video and of her death have been widely broadcast by the Western media, with copious amounts of faux sympathy.
She deserves our sympathy because she appears to be a victim of the latest Western bogeyman: Iran. She, as Noam Chomsky might note, is a “worthy victim.”
Bassem Abu Rameh, on the other hand, is a young Palestinian man who was shot dead while protesting against oppression and apartheid in Israel and the occupied territories. He doesn’t have a page on Wikipedia. Photos and video of his death have not been broadcast by the Western media. Nor any sympathy.
He doesn’t deserve our sympathy because he is the victim of a Western ally: Israel. He is an “unworthy victim.”
Thanks to Jews sans frontieres.