SUCCESS: Daily Mail Corrects Tel Aviv Capital Offense

The Daily Mail's Mail Online falsely implies that Tel Aviv is Israel's capital. HonestReporting gets the correction.

By January 02, 2017

The Daily Mail’s Mail Online, the most read news website in the world, included multiple references to Tel Aviv in its story on the UN resolution and the role of the US in allowing it to pass.

 

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HRsuccessFollowing correspondence with editors, we are pleased to say that amendments have been made to all of the above.

Tel Aviv has been replaced with “Jerusalem” in the first two instances while “Israel” is used in the latter two.

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Simon Plosker

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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