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AFP’s Mosque Muck Up

It says a lot about AFP that the French wire service labels the Tomb of the Patriarchs a “mosque” in a headline. The Palestinians are already on record saying they’ll use UNESCO decisions to…

Pesach Benson
January 15, 2013
12:00 am

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It says a lot about AFP that the French wire service labels the Tomb of the Patriarchs a “mosque” in a headline.

The Palestinians are already on record saying they’ll use UNESCO decisions to bar Jews from worship at the tomb. AFP’s brazen whitewash of Jewish ties to the Hebron holy site only furthers that agenda.

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Tags: AFP, holy sites, Tomb of the Patriarchs, UNESCO

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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