It wasn’t the most obvious place to find an outrageous factual error concerning Israel. The Daily Telegraph‘s film section examines some of actor Warren Beatty’s biggest movie flops, including the 1987 release Ishtar (which we are told is absolutely dreadful).
The article contained the following paragraph:
Israel has never bombed Morocco. Period.
It is safe to assume that this is a simple fact-checking error that had no malicious intent on the part of the newspaper although the lack of context is unhelpful.
For the historical record, Israel bombed the PLO headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia in October 1985 in response to a wave of terror, while the Jewish-American referred to is most likely Leon Klinghoffer, murdered by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship that same month.
Thank you to the Daily Telegraph for making a correction shortly after we brought the error to its attention. Most of the paragraph has now been removed.
© Divuach Ne’eman R”A, 2025
