HR Turns Triple Play Over Israel’s Capital
September 27, 2012 13:14 by Simon Plosker
We took this case to the PCC and the Daily Mail admitted its mistake, amending the online version of the article to read, “The Jerusalem government is concerned” and agreeing to print the following correction:
A report on 23 August mistakenly suggested that Israel’s government was in Tel Aviv when it is, of course, in Jerusalem.
But that wasn’t all.
Daily Telegraph repents
On September the Daily Telegraph’s Travel supplement included the following text accompanying a photo feature:
An email to the Daily Telegraph pointing out the PCC’s position and only hours before the onset of Yom Kippur, the paper atoned for its error, amending the text to refer to Tel Aviv as “found in Israel” (although we did not realize it had been lost!)
HonestReporting will continue to monitor the media for further infractions of this nature. But with the PCC’s precedent-setting ruling, the UK media will find it virtually impossible to repeat false information about Israel’s capital and get away with it.
Jeffrey Nakar
2:58 pm
Sep 28, 2012
Well done HR. Perhaps it would also help if we changed the image that is always shown to represent Jerusalem.
Instead of showing the Western Wall (which let’s face, no one but the Jews is interested in) with a large mosque behind it, perhaps we should be showing a picture of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament with the giant Menorah in front of it. A democratic image with a Jewish symbol for the capital of the Jewish state.
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Good News Friday | Anne's Opinions
3:50 pm
Sep 28, 2012
[...] the media watchdog Honest Reporting succeeding in its efforts to make the British media admit that Tel Aviv is not Israel’s capital, even though they are still reluctant to acknowledge that Jerusalem is indeed Israel’s [...]
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Rafi Bezalel
8:52 pm
Sep 28, 2012
Heffrey Nakar’s suggestion, above, is a good idea. Any concept that can change the petrified image of Israel abroad is a good idea. It is more than amazing that this is so clear and yet so far from the minds of Israel’s PR people.
Punlicize that the menorah was a gift from Britain to a fellow democracy – l’havdil !
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Sylvie Schapira
10:53 am
Sep 29, 2012
I agree. Jeffrey, will you send your idea to the Israeli Embassy/Consulate? Better still, send it to Netanyahu. – This will be a gift from the U.K! And it may just fix something in the minds of the ignorant and the malicious, because pictures speak a thousand words. The words say what they don’t want to hear, that Jerusalem is the capital, because it offends the poor Palestinians. But a picture of the Knesset and the menorah – and maybe; Jerusalem, Capital of Israel, written on it can’t fail to get the message across.
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martin
4:50 pm
Sep 30, 2012
I agree, after all Big Ben and Westminster are shown as British icons.
Come on Israel start to show sorely lacking gumption with hasbara and imagination.
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Fautier Souop Alain Josue
10:11 pm
Sep 30, 2012
Let me thank u all at HR.
First i am glad, of the achievement, of the fact that the errors about the real location of Israel Capital, had been publicly corrected, and at the end of ur determination to fight the opponents of the only democratic state in the Middle East.
May Hashem grant us with more success…May the truth about Israel and it’s all time capital be known by all.
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Rosangela
2:28 am
Oct 03, 2012
Extraordinary and refreshing! Good, organized people on the right about truth with intelligent approach and clear purpose! How blessed they are wise and courageous too!
“Comfort, comfort you, MY people.”. May the number of those assesing facts join the numbers of all who know- forever: YERUSHALAYIM,
G-d’s Holy City. Israel: G-d’s chosen land. The Jews, Israelites: G-d’s chosen people. Small victory- great delight.
Happy Sukkot!
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David
3:11 pm
Oct 10, 2012
I couldn’t get to page 2 for some reason or other possibly because of technical problems with my PC, so I’m sorry if the point I’m about to make has already appeared in others’ comments.
A few weeks ago when the capital question came up, one of the newspapers – it may have been the Guardian – accepted that TA was not the capital, still wouldn’t concede that Jerusalem was the capital, but stated that Jerusalem was the seat of government.
If you look up the word “capital” in many standard dictionaries, you often find it defined as a country’s seat of government!
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Peter Burman
3:39 pm
Oct 10, 2012
Mazel Tov! Kol Hakavod!
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JonS
11:01 am
Oct 11, 2012
Excellent and well done. It took HR to have the guts to to this. The mainstream Israeli and Jewish media outlets should be ashamed of themselves
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Oct 11, 2012
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Sebastian Salama
8:15 pm
Oct 15, 2012
Well done,Congratulations, but we should see,INPRINT, the Guardian acknowledging that JERUSALEM is the Capital of Israel.
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AP’s Self-Declared Jerusalem Correction « Iran Aware
3:25 pm
Nov 18, 2012
[...] It’s enough to make anyone’s head hurt. It goes without saying that capital cities are self-declared. AP wouldn’t qualify references to Brasilia, Canberra , or Dublin as the capitals of their respective countries unless denying reality was politically correct — which is increasingly the case when it’s about Jerusalem. [...]
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AP selbst erklärte Jerusalem-„Korrektur“ « Medien BackSpin
12:43 pm
Nov 19, 2012
[...] Das reicht, um jedermanns Herz schmerzen zu lassen. Es ist selbstverständlich, dass Hauptstädte selbsterklärt sind. Die AP würde Bezugnahmen auf Brasilia, Canberra oder Dublin als Hauptstädte von deren jeweiligen Staaten nicht näher bestimmen, außer die Leugnung der Realität wäre politisch korrekt – was zunehmend der Fall ist, wenn es um Jerusalem geht. [...]
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