Archive for November 14th, 2011
Press Council adjudication No 1513 – criticising Israel is not anti-semitic
Posted by John, November 14th, 2011 - under Israel, Max Brenner, Palestine, Press Council, Zionism.
Tags: Anti-semitism, BDS
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The council has concluded that the headline on the print version, “Anti-Jew protest condemned”, was a clear breach of the council’s standards of practice because it reported a matter of opinion as if a fact. It also failed reasonably to convey the tenor of the article itself, in which the original demonstration was described as “anti-Israel” but not as “anti-Jew”. Accordingly, the complaint against the headline is upheld on both these grounds.