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UPI Scrubs an Electoral Mess
HonestReporting gets UPI to remove an entire section that featured the main political parties and players… from the wrong election.
Simon Plosker
September 18, 2019
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HonestReporting gets UPI to remove an entire section that featured the main political parties and players… from the wrong election.
The New York Times contends Israel is Judaizing Jerusalem with its cable car plan to transport tourists to the Western Wall.
The Independent gets its Israeli elections mixed up. HonestReporting sets it straight.
Newsweek omits a serious and fatal incident involving Hezbollah in 2015. HonestReporting gets the correction.
The Independent corrects the error after falsely implying Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital city.
Israel demolished Palestinian buildings in the village of Sur Baher using bulldozers and munitions, not “bombing” them as Reuters photo captions claim.
A simple edit to a quote erroneously makes it appear as if Israel attacked Syria using Russian supplied weapons.
United Press International (UPI) makes a double correction after HonestReporting calls out the errors.
HonestReporting’s local branch of Coffee Bean is located in “Jerusalem, West Bank,” according to the company’s global website.
The Israeli president was not “braying for an American attack on Iran.” HonestReporting prompts Forbes to correct the error.
With Sunday’s unveiling of a plaque marking the site of a planned village in the
Beitar Jerusalem’s minority of extremist fans are falsely held up by The Independent as a symbol of Israeli soccer and Zionism.
UPDATE: The Oxford American removed the claim that the Israeli government seized the family property
As hundreds of Jews visited the Temple Mount celebrating Jerusalem Day, photo captions describe “fanatic Jews raiding the Al-Aqsa mosque.”
Did the History Channel deliberately doctor a prominent quote from the Israeli Declaration of Independence for political reasons?
Is Israel’s Iron Dome “notorious?” It is according to the Daily Mail’s Mail Online, which makes a mess of its story on Israeli defensive measures during the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Times of London corrects after writing that an Israeli family caught up in the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting attack left Israel due to “religious violence.”
The Daily Telegraph wrongly states Erez Crossing goes into Egypt, effectively erasing Israel’s role in the rescue of dozens of animals from a Gaza zoo.
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