Terror Only Happens in the UK

Sky News is treating a pair of stone throwing incidents with real gravitas while security officials investigate this as attempted murder.…

By Pesach Benson December 06, 2011

Sky News is treating a pair of stone throwing incidents with real gravitas while security officials investigate this as attempted murder.

Coverage includes photos of the concrete block and large rocks that struck unfortunate motorists and a video featuring one of the victims. The headline calls the incident terror, and readers are posting comments that the perpetrators — kids, quite possibly — should be locked away for the rest of their lives.

Oh yeah, the incident was in Essex, not Israel. Stone throwing’s only treated as terror when it happens in the UK.

(Hat tip: This Ongoing War)

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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