LA Times and the 50 Year Gaza Occupation

UPDATE

The following has been published on the LA Times corrections page as well as on the sidebar of the original book review:

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The LA Times publishes a book review of “Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal” by Milton Viorst. The reviewer Nicholas Goldberg is a former Middle East correspondent. Yet he still managed to include the error in this paragraph:

Of course, Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, removing its settlements and soldiers. It isn’t occupied today and even when Israel packed up and left, it wasn’t even 40 let alone nearly 50 years at that point in time since Israel took over Gaza in 1967.

We’ve sent a request for a correction to the LA Times and publicly tweeted. Watch this space.

No @latimes, Israel hasn’t occupied Gaza since 2005! Pls correct. https://t.co/m0ZnfCvPTl pic.twitter.com/RpLyEZYtBy

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 4, 2016

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.

LA Times and the 50 Year Gaza Occupation

UPDATE

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