HR Turns Triple Play Over Israel’s Capital
September 27, 2012 13:14 by Simon Plosker
HonestReporting is taking a zero tolerance policy against media promoting the falsehood that Tel Aviv, and not Jerusalem, is Israel’s capital. We launched legal proceedings against The Guardian, forcing it, in August, to unequivocally state:
we accept that it is wrong to state that Tel Aviv – the country’s financial and diplomatic centre – is the capital.
But that was just the beginning. We promised that we would not rest until the Press Complaints Commission, that had originally sided with The Guardian, also issued a precedent-setting ruling that The Guardian had violated principles of accuracy when it stated that Tel Aviv was the capital of Israel.
The PCC has now done exactly that, stating:
the Commission concluded that … the unequivocal statement that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel had the potential to mislead readers and raised a breach of Clause 1 (i) of the Editors’ Code of Practice.
(Clause 1(i) of the Editors’ Code states: “The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.”)
Commenting on this latest achievement, HonestReporting’s CEO Joe Hyams said:
Together with Asserson Law Offices, Israel’s leading English law firm, HonestReporting has successfully persuaded the PCC that Tel Aviv is not Israel’s capital. This sets an important precedent that brings to an end any further debate in the British media on this issue. Fatuous claims over the status of Tel Aviv as a means to delegitimize Jerusalem as Israel’s rightful capital will no longer be acceptable.
The PCC has sent a clear message for the UK media to uphold standards on accuracy while HonestReporting has demonstrated the efficacy of pursuing legal action when necessary to defend Israel against media bias.
Daily Mail admits Israeli government is in Jerusalem
While the PCC was considering its position, we caught the Daily Mail, whose website has the world’s largest readership for a news site, making the following error:
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Yair
3:28 pm
Sep 27, 2012
How can people be expected to care about right and wrong if they don’t care about basic, blatant facts like which city is our capital?
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Allan Levine
5:21 pm
Sep 27, 2012
I am amazed. Amazed and delighted. And astonished. Never figured it would happen, (O faith of Little Ye).
Sincere kudos from Toronto. Well done indeed.
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Jossef
5:39 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Kol Hakavod and Yeshar Koah to HonestReporting!
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David Most
5:48 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Well Done!!! The British, for whatever their reasons, have turned anti-Semitic in the years following their abandonment of the Transjordan. After the ’67 war and the Arab defeat, it has gotten worse. Now the UK is re-assessing its immigration policy. Perhaps there will be a turnaround in the influx of Muslim refugees into Londonistan!
I don’t harbor any illusions that the BBC with its inherent left wing ‘elites’ will change anytime soon. Organizations like yours must continue to fight SOBs like them. My contributions, modest as they are, will continue………GO HR!!
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Joan
8:42 pm
Sep 27, 2012
What do you man “turn anti-Semitic”? When were they NOT so? Go back and read Shakespeare and his depiction of the Jews – Fagan, and so on. And the attitude of the British in barring Jews from fleeing to Palestine during the 30′s and 40′s. And the British support for only the Arabs during the years of the Mandate. And that the British turned over their military installations and equipment to the Arabs before finally leaving Palestine. And so on, and so on.
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Sylvie Schapira
5:48 pm
Sep 27, 2012
‘Somebody’ heard you! Well done, HR. Thank Goodness you are here to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people’s rights. For we are defending them on every level, in every country now. The major difference between anti-Semitism now and in the past? They didn’t have Honest Reporting to be vigilant and challenge the thinly disguised prejudices. It would be interesting to show a list of all the U.K.media bias, ‘errors’ distortions, omissions, and other ways that Israel has been misrepresented in the British media.
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pat hinton
5:54 pm
Sep 27, 2012
How can you expect the world’s press to be ‘fair and accurate’ when the President of the US is so blatantly anti Semitic?
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martin
5:57 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Mazaltov and a huge thank you to HR for it’s fight. It definitely takes an organoisation to flex it’s muscle against the virulent Zionist/Jew/Israel haters.
I do write to papers to correct some of the malicious accusations and allegations. and they do get printed. Hoever, this is on a different scale.
The Daily Mail with David english as editor made a dramatic turn when he vowed tha his paper would not support the Jew haters and made it clear that he would support Israel. Which he did. Sadly then, Max Hastings took over and along with invited hateful “columnists” made the usual attacks on the Israeli government. They do have some very pro Israel columnists too.
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Israel Horowitz
6:06 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Honest Reporting is the best. The WORK you do is incomparable.Thank you
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m
6:40 pm
Sep 27, 2012
What a f****d up world we live in. Who would have thought that all this time, effort and money would have to be spent just to get somebody to stop lying about what city is Israel’s capital? It’s insane! All this to have those idiots at the “guardian” admit they were wrong to say Tel Aviv is the capital!!
Just like Israel having to pour so much energy into defence. As it is, look at the wonderful innovations that we all enjoy because of Israel. Imagine if they could put just a fraction of the defence budget into more scientific research. It’s not just Israel’s loss, it’s the loss of all of us on this planet.
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Richard Mather
6:55 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Congrats to HR. This is a breakthrough moment in the fight against the nasty ideology of Palestinianism.
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Donna Geller
6:56 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Great job Honest Reporting!! Thank you so much for the outstanding work you are doing. Finally, we win one.
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Dan
7:48 pm
Sep 27, 2012
Good job. The sad part about this is that it is like arguing with morons that the sky is, in fact, blue.
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clive rosen
1:29 am
Sep 28, 2012
have you taken action yet against the united grand lodge of english freemasons who have stated tel aviv is the capital of Israel in their 2013 pocket diary? Iemailed you about this several weeks ago.
Yours, Clive Rosen, former hon. officer of the zionist federation.
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Reb Mordechai
8:49 am
Sep 28, 2012
Most of Anglo Jewry believed that Just as many Englishman/women mistakenly refer to Glasgow as Scotland’s capital through pure ignorance so do many British think that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital. It came then as no surprise when the UK press state this. Now Honest Reporting has clearly shown that there has been a concerted effort to perpetuate this falsehood in order to delegitimise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Kol Hakavod to Honest Reporting for this! Sadly though the antisemetic media in Britain will continue to do this by other means. They just can’t use the convenience of stating Tel Aviv now.
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john nemesh
9:06 am
Sep 28, 2012
well done!
keep it up
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martin
11:20 am
Sep 28, 2012
Clive, I have just phoned a very close friend, a Mason regarding your post and will wait for his response. When one considers just how many Jewish people are Free Masons in the UK, I find this situation absolutely disgracefull.
Sadly and very unfortunately, official British Jewry is scared of its own shadow and will not rock the boat. I was told years ago by security (now that’s a joke) officials of the British Board of Guardians that they were scared of a backlash. I did a lot of background security work in the UK at that time.
I was involved ( being a nuisance) with those fighting the Arab Boycott of Israel in London and questiooned why M&S bought boycott supported Leyland vehicles.
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Sylvie Schapira
12:22 pm
Sep 28, 2012
Martin has touched on a raw nerve. (‘official British Jewry is scared of its own shadow’). The Jewish community does not have any ‘official’ body to stand up for it. Just as in 1939 and throughout the war, our leaders are stymied and scared. We desperately need Honest Reporting and other organisations to speak out for us. And each one of us has also to do what we can to oppose the obvious delegitimisation of Israel, and the elimination of the Jewish people. History shows us that whenever there is a crisis, the Jews get scapegoated. Well, there is a global crisis of one form or another, so blaming Israel is the answer. I for one will not stand by and let it happen again. Protest we must!
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Raf Bezalel
12:38 pm
Sep 28, 2012
Many thanks to Honest Reporting and to Asserson law firm for their continuing efforts.
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Brent Pudsey
1:59 pm
Sep 28, 2012
Well done to Honesty Reporting. By uncovering one bias and error and getting it acknowledged and corrected , it shows that change can happen.
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