The Washington Post, in its Nov. 13 print edition, features a huge color photo of a Palestinian man  standing in a burned-down doorway.  The caption reads: “A Palestinian stands in the doorway of a mosque that was set ablaze by Israeli settlers Wednesday in the West Bank village of al-Mughayir, near the Jewish settlement of Shilo.”

Fair enough.  Definitely a news event that merits some coverage.

But as it turns out, there was an equally newsworthy incident during the same news cycle that the Post didn’t see fit to print.

I’m referring to the firebombing of an old synagogue in Shefaram, an Arab town in northern Israel.

If an arson attack on a mosque merits some coverage, so does the firebombing of a synagogue.  But not at the Washington Post, which totally ignored an Arab attack on a Jewish place of worship.

The omission is telling, because it leaves Post readers with the false impression that only Palestinian mosques have become targets of extremists in the current upsurge of violence.

Sadly, victimhood is not a one-sided phenomenon, as the Post suggests.  There are bad actors on both sides – a reality the Post ignores with yet another example of selective, biased journalism.

Leo Rennert is a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief of McClatchy Newspapers.