HR Prompts The Independent to Correct Election Error

A story in The Independent got its Israeli elections mixed up.

Whoops @Independent @_richardhall, you've got the wrong election. Bibi was accused of this in the 2015 election, not in April 2019. https://t.co/Fi8cpiNUht pic.twitter.com/Mv9EbdZKZH

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 10, 2019

Israel’s prime minister has been accused of plenty of things during this second election of the year but “the Arabs are going to the polls in droves” incident, for which he apologized, occurred in the 2015 election and not in the last one held in April 2019.

HonestReporting contacted The Independent, which corrected the text to the appropriate year.

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.

HR Prompts The Independent to Correct Election Error

Simon Plosker

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