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Palestinian Rocket Attack: Time Magazine’s Headline Fail

UPDATE Thanks to the many of you who registered your complaints with Time, the offending headline has now been changed: * * * A rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel on Tuesday night,…

Simon Plosker
May 27, 2015
12:00 am

Reading time: 2 minutes

UPDATE

Thanks to the many of you who registered your complaints with Time, the offending headline has now been changed:

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A rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel on Tuesday night, landing near the town of Gan Yavne, outside the coastal city of Ashdod. While there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, this was nonetheless a serious and unacceptable incident.

It appears that internal fighting within the Islamic Jihad terror organization led to the rocket fire. Israel launched limited air strikes on Gazan terrorist infrastructure in response.

Most of the international media’s headlines, while leading with the air strikes, did include mention that these followed a Palestinian rocket attack. Not Time magazine however, which ran this chronologically inverted headline:

Time follows a familiar pattern whereby the emphasis placed on Israeli responses to Palestinian terror create the impression of Israel as an aggressor deploying “disproportionate force.”

[sc:graybox ]You can demand that Time amends its faulty headline by sending an email to [email protected]

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Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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