Here’s a roundup of the latest corrections secured by HonestReporting:
MCCLATCHY NEWS
An article in the Washington DC political publication McClatchyDC explored the removal of the word “Palestine” from Google Maps, but it got its history dead wrong.
In what McClatchy calls a “quick primer on the disputed land” journalist Teresa Welsh wrote, “The state of Israel was created in 1948 on land that had previously been controlled by the British Mandate and was considered the nation of Palestine.”
In truth, “Palestine” was a REGION within the Roman Empire and later in the Ottoman Empire, but never a NATION. It would be like calling the American Midwest the “Nation of Midwest.” It makes no logical or historical sense, and it’s just not true.
Worth also noting that there was a time some 2000 years ago, prior to the Romans, when this region was in fact an independent nation: it was called the “Kingdom of Israel.”
Following action by HonestReporting and the complaints of our readers, McClatchy corrected the error:
MAIL ONLINE
The Daily Mail’s Mail Online was one of the few media outlets to cover the story of the closure of the Khan Younis zoo in the Gaza Strip and the rescue of its surviving animals without pinning most of the blame on Israel.
Unfortunately, in reference to this week’s rocket attack on Sderot, the story included the following paragraph:
Sderot, is, of course, not a “settlement” (a term usually employed by the media to describe Israeli communities located in the disputed territories) but a city located near the Gaza border in Israel proper.
Following a request and a tweet from HonestReporting, Mail Online corrected the error.
.@MailOnline Pls correct statement that rocket was fired into “Israeli settlement.” Sderot is not a settlement, it is within the Green Line.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) August 24, 2016
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