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A Day of Terror, A Day of Headline Fails
More Palestinian terror attacks mean more screwy headlines. Context and accuracy took a hit. Without
Pesach Benson
February 15, 2016
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More Palestinian terror attacks mean more screwy headlines. Context and accuracy took a hit. Without
Two Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israeli women are described as “exchanges of violence” in the New York Times’ headline.
The International Business Times inaccurately states that Hamas took over Gaza through democratic means and states the Hamas capture of an Israeli spy dolphin as fact.
The Telegraph changes its headline that suggested that Israel’s planned security fence on its Jordan border was aimed at keeping Syrian refugees out.
Reuters’ headline on Israeli discussions on how to deal with Palestinian stone throwers morphs into a threat to shoot Palestinian minors.
For our false photo tweet of the day: Pavel Ryzhevsky, a columnist for the pro-Kremlin
Foreign Policy magazine inaccurately states that the 1993 Oslo Accords committed Israel to a settlement freeze.
The Irish Times’s Michael Jansen publishes a three-part series of anti-Israel lies and distortions.
The Daily Telegraph portrays an IDF soldier imprisoned for breaking army regulations as a free speech martyr as a result of critical comments he made on TV.
Newsweek incorrectly states that the 1949 Green Line was created to “demarcate the Palestinian state.”
The Times of London’s sensationalized and misleading headline convicts Israel of an alleged “crime” that has yet to even occur.
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