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Dumb Edit of the Day: Jews and Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Scotsman’s report on the temporary closure of the Temple Mount on Thursday includes the following paragraph referring to the attempted murder of Yehuda Glick: But neither Glick nor anybody else has ever…

Simon Plosker
November 2, 2014
12:00 am

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The Scotsman’s report on the temporary closure of the Temple Mount on Thursday includes the following paragraph referring to the attempted murder of Yehuda Glick:

But neither Glick nor anybody else has ever “led a campaign for Jews to be allowed to pray at the al-Aqsa mosque.”

While it might seem a minor error in terminology, it is nonetheless important. Some Jews are campaigning for the right to pray on the Temple Mount and not in a Muslim house of worship.

After contacting the journalist behind the piece, Reuters’ Luke Baker, to draw his attention to the error, he stated that The Scotsman itself had edited the original Reuters piece.

HonestReporting has written to The Scotsman and we await a correction.

UPDATE

Following our correspondence, The Scotsman has corrected the error. The article now refers to the “Temple Mount compound.

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Tags: Al-Aqsa Mosque, Temple Mount, The Scotsman

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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