Israeli-Palestinian tensions continued to rise over the Temple Mount this weekend. On Friday night, a Palestinian terrorist snuck inside the West Bank settlement of Neve Tsuf (also known as Halamish), entered a home, and stabbed to death Yosef Salomon, 70, his daughter, Chaya, 46, and his son, Elad, 36.
Yosef’s wife, Tova, was also injured in the attack. The Salomons were celebrating the birth of a grandchild over a Shabbat dinner.
The Palestinian, 19-year-old Omar al-Abed, had posted on Facebook his chilling plans in response to Israelis “desecrating the Aksa Mosque.”
“All that I have is a sharpened knife, and it is answering the call of al-Aksa. Shame on you, you who preach hatred. God will take revenge on you and will make it count. All of us are the sons of Palestine and the sons of al-Aksa. You, sons of monkeys and pigs, if you do not open the gates of al-Aksa, I am sure that men will follow me and will hit you with an iron fist, I am warning you.”
Abed is now hospitalized after being shot by a responding soldier.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli security forces, while a third was killed, reportedly by his prematurely exploding petrol bomb.
There’s no way to equate Israelis stabbed to death in their own home with rioting Palestinians whipped up by their leaders.
But that’s precisely what some news services have done this weekend. Here are some disgraceful headlines from the Associated Press, Boston Herald (which revised AP’s headline, leaving it just as lousy in spirit), Reuters, The Guardian and Times of London.
Studies show that headlines don’t just draw readers to the articles, they even impact the way we read and remember stories. For more on that, see News Literacy: Why Headlines Matter.
We’re updating this post as we come across more horrible headers.
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