Tuesday’s HonestReporting communique included a critique of a Knight Ridder dispatch that included this quotation from a Palestinian:
“I want to destroy everything here as they did the Al Aqsa mosque,” said Mahmoud Malahi. “It’s a symbol of occupation. Destroying it is a symbol of Islam.”
Knight Ridder has issued a ‘clarification’ and requested its papers run a formal correction:
A Sept. 12 story on the Gaza Strip included a quote from a Palestinian demonstrator that wrongly equated the destruction of a former synagogue at Netzarim in the Gaza Strip to Israeli actions regarding the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The story should have clarified that the Israelis have not destroyed or vandalized the mosque.
[The Montreal Gazette has run this correction.]
But Knight Ridder’s Dion Nissenbaum, who authored the first erroneous article, includes another whopper of a Palestinian statement in a more recent article:
Israeli leaders denounced the [synagogue] attacks as barbaric, but Palestinian officials said Israel should have demolished the buildings as planned if it had wanted the former synagogues to receive special treatment.
‘Special treatment’ for demolished synagogues?! Now there’s a mission the PA police could accomplish!
