Thumbs up to AP‘s old-fashioned fact-checking for catching the Palestinians and the NGO, Gisha, trying to pull another fast one on the MSM:
“Gisha,” a human rights group advocating freedom of movement for Palestinians, is pressing the Israeli Supreme Court to allow university students to leave Gaza to continue their studies abroad. The group included Yaser Betar in its suit, presenting the court with a one-page document from the University of North Texas affirming that he is enrolled in a doctorate program.
But after the AP sent the document to the university, its spokeswoman replied that the document was not authentic, and Betar “is not currently enrolled at the university.”
As a wry editor once told me when I was a young intern:
“If your mother says she loves you, check it out — and get a quote from your father.”
