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“Settlements Built on Land Seized From Palestine in ’67”: Metro Rewrites History

UPDATE Eventually, following correspondence with HonestReporting, the entire information box has been removed from the page. While it would have been preferable for the correct information to be included instead, this is nonetheless an improvement…

Simon Plosker
December 25, 2016
12:00 am

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UPDATE

Eventually, following correspondence with HonestReporting, the entire information box has been removed from the page. While it would have been preferable for the correct information to be included instead, this is nonetheless an improvement over the original.

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Metro, London’s free newspaper, covers the UN settlement resolution by including what the journalist thought would be a useful piece of background information.

Not so useful after all.

Israel did not seize anything from “Palestine” in 1967. The territory known as Judea and Samaria or the West Bank was won in a defensive war from Jordan, which was occupying the land at the time.

It’s precisely this sort of historical revisionism that has contributed to a false narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that so favors the Palestinians today.

We’ve contacted Metro to ask for a correction. Watch this space.

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Tags: distorted facts, Jordan, Metro, palestine, settlements, Six Day War, success, UK, West Bank

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.

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