UPDATE
In what can be considered a partial success, the Daily Mail has amended its headline, which now reads as follows:
While the headline still infers that the Palestinian teenagers are victims, the headline now makes it clear that they were shot in response to a stabbing that they had already carried out rather than just a “threat.” An improvement but still not good enough.
The Daily Mail, has, however, taken on board our other criticisms. The article has now been amended to state that the gas station attack was a fatal stabbing, while the casualty figure has been updated.
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Most people will have been shocked that two Palestinian teenage girls were responsible for a terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem on Tuesday. Given the incitement emanating from Palestinian leaders and the media, it is not surprising.
This is how the Daily Mail’s Mail Online site headlined the story:
These Palestinians were not shot by Israeli security forces for “threatening them” with scissors – an elderly man had already by this point been injured and the girls clearly represented a serious danger to everyone around them.
Their young age and the fact that these two Palestinian teens were armed with scissors as opposed to knives should not detract from the plain and simple fact that they made the conscious decision to try to kill Israelis shopping in a market.
The headline turns the Palestinian attackers into the victims and instead portrays Israelis as the party at fault.
In addition, the article text when referring to other recent terror attacks states: “A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the stomach and lightly wounded two women before he was shot dead at a petrol station.”
It fails to state that the Israeli soldier was actually killed in this stabbing attack on the very same day of the Palestinian teen terror attack.
The text also cites 18 Israelis killed in terror attacks. In fact, the number of terror victims since mid-September, which the story says is the beginning of this wave of violence, is now 23 (it was 22 when this article was published only a few days ago). This also includes an Eritrean citizen, a Palestinian and an American Jew who were all victims of terrorist attacks. There is no reason to omit them from the casualty figures.
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