"Lynch test" is a term used to describe a consistency test of journalists covering the Israeli-Arab conflict. According to Nahum Barnea

Nahum Barnea

Nahum Barnea is an Israeli journalist. Barnea writes for Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha'Ayin HaShevi'it. He won the Israel Prize in 2007.-Biography:...

, winner of the Israel Prize

Israel Prize

The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...

, Israeli journalists who fail to criticize Arab terrorism fail the lynch test. According to author Kenneth Levin

Kenneth Levin

Kenneth Levin is a Newton, Massachusetts psychiatrist and historian and author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege....

, this is a "rare instance of Israeli media self-scrutiny." This term describing the test was first used after the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in which an Arab mob beat to death ("lynched") two Israeli reservists who had mistakenly entered Ramallah.