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 “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.