Guardian’s Israel Correspondent Still Clueless
August 24, 2011 10:33 by Simon Plosker
Harriet Sherwood
The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood just keeps demonstrating her gross ignorance of the region that she is meant to be covering. In May we caught her mistakenly claiming that Israel’s Knesset and other national buildings were located on Palestinian-owned land.
Prior to that, Sherwood was critiqued by HonestReporting for referring to the Western Wall as Judaism’s most holy site while promoting the Palestinian narrative of the Temple Mount as a primarily Muslim site.
This, despite the incontrovertable fact that the Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site.
Evidently, Sherwood doesn’t learn from her mistakes. In an article concerning US broadcaster Glenn Beck holding rallies in Jerusalem, Sherwood writes:
Reinforcing his point, the rally is to be staged in the shadows of the Old City, close to both the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, and the Haram al-Sharif, also known by Jews as the Temple Mount, which is revered by Muslims.
We don’t deny the attachment of Muslims to their holy sites but Sherwood not only gets her facts wrong but peddles a false historical narrative that denies and delegitimizes Jewish roots in Jerusalem.
See our previous expose of Sherwood’s error and why the Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site here.
UPDATE: The Guardian publishes a correction… or does it?
Guardian-Korrespondentin hat weiterhin keinen blassen Schimmer « Medien BackSpin
11:54 am
Aug 24, 2011
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Guardian’s Israel Correspondent Still Clueless «ScrollPost.com
12:21 pm
Aug 24, 2011
[...] for referring to the Western Wall as Judaism’s [...]Original article can be viewed at Guardian’s Israel Correspondent Still Clueless on HonestReporting.Source: Europe & OECD BlogsPublished: 24 August 2011Site: [...]
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Asher Garber
5:39 pm
Aug 24, 2011
And these reporters expect us to take them seriously. To actually live in a region and flaunt a complete disregard to its history, all the while searching for seeds of discontent. A case in point is how the Western journalists in Israel have written more about Glenn Beck in the past month than they have about Gilad Shalit over the past 5 years.
This woman, and all journalists like her, sicken me. May she remain significant only to the deaf, dumb, and blind global Israel bashing monkeys.
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