The Lynch test is a consistency test of journalists covering the Israeli-Arab conflict. According to Nahum Barnea, winner of the Israel Prize, Israeli journalists who fail to criticize Arab terrorism fail the lynch test. According to author Kenneth Levin, this is a "rare instance of Israeli media self-scrutiny." The term came after the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in which an Arab mob beat to death two Israeli reservists who had mistakenly entered Ramallah.
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