On Aug. 1st we fisked the claim in the following Tweet (on July 22) by Guardian reporter Chris McGreal
McGreal actually doubled-down on the Tweet’s suggestion – that the Israeli conflict against Hamas is, in fact, a racist war designed simply to murder Arabs – in his July 31st Guardian article titled ‘American media’s new pro-Israel bias: the same party line at the wrong time‘.
His column began thusly:
Here are a few questions you won’t hear asked of the parade of Israeli officials crossing US television screens during the current crisis in Gaza:
- What would you do if a foreign country was occupying your land?
- What does it mean that Israeli cabinet ministers deny Palestine’s right to exist?
- What should we make of a prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who as opposition leader in the 1990s was found addressing rallies under a banner reading “Death to Arabs”?
However, after a modest amount of research – evidently more than McGreal put into his own column – we were able to establish that the banner in question, at a right-wing rally in Jerusalem in 1994, did not read ‘Death to Arabs’ but, rather, death to the father of modern terror – Yasser Arafat.
After contacting Guardian editors, they acknowledged McGreal’s error, revised the passage in question and added the following addendum to the article:
We commend Guardian editors for their positive response to our complaint.
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CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction to anti-Bibi smear by Chris McGreal
On Aug. 1st we fisked the claim in the following Tweet (on July 22) by Guardian reporter Chris McGreal
McGreal actually doubled-down on the Tweet’s suggestion – that the Israeli conflict against Hamas is, in fact, a racist war designed simply to murder Arabs – in his July 31st Guardian article titled ‘American media’s new pro-Israel bias: the same party line at the wrong time‘.
His column began thusly:
However, after a modest amount of research – evidently more than McGreal put into his own column – we were able to establish that the banner in question, at a right-wing rally in Jerusalem in 1994, did not read ‘Death to Arabs’ but, rather, death to the father of modern terror – Yasser Arafat.
After contacting Guardian editors, they acknowledged McGreal’s error, revised the passage in question and added the following addendum to the article:
We commend Guardian editors for their positive response to our complaint.
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