Misleading Headline Of The Day

Yesterday, Mirabelle posted about how Israel added Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem kidnapped and murdered by Jews last summer, to the Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial at Mount Herzl, as well as to the list of terror victims in the government-run website.

It turns out Mohammed’s family requested his name be removed from the memorial.

Hussein Abu Khdeir, Mohammed’s father, told Ynet that “this is a great initiative meant to honor my son, but I’m more interested with something else entirely: For the court to do justice with those who burned my son alive, and sentence them to the appropriate punishment.”

Enter The Guardian, who decided to report the story with the following headline.

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Anyone seeing this headline would assume it was Israelis who erased his name as some sort of hate crime.

Granted, the next paragraph clarifies the reason, but I find it hard to believe this misleading headline is an accident. Especially considering the Guardian’s track record when it comes to Israel.

8 thoughts on “Misleading Headline Of The Day”

  1. Even I was taken in by the headline until I read the article. It was very sly and underhand of the Guardian, not to mention malicious. But I repeat myself.

    1. All of this reveals how far the Arabs have to go to accept Israel.

      It isn’t the other way around, contrary to what the Guardian’s headline would have people believe.

      I repeat myself when I add the context matters – something the Guardian failed to inform its readers about.

  2. In TOI the quote from his father was made out to sound even stronger
    – Abu Khdeir’s father, Hussein, said that he wasn’t informed of the move to include his son on the memorial, and that he opposed it. In an interview with Ynet, he said that all he wanted was for his son’s killers to be punished. “That’s the most important thing to me — not the honor bestowed on my son,” he said. “My son is gone. My son was burned and we burned along with him. I want justice, not honor.” Hussein Abu Khdeir also noted that his son was not an Israeli citizen.

    1. I found the following quote in Yahoo news, from the AFP:

      “I am Palestinian, not Israeli, even if I am a resident of east Jerusalem, and I do not want his name written next to that of Israeli soldiers,” he said.

  3. Norman_In_New_York

    The Guardian needs to be reminded over and over again that antisemitism is the socialism of fools.

  4. reminds me of one of my favorite headlines: after the Har Nof synagogue massacre, someone–I think Reuters–ran the head “4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians killed in synagogue attack.” well, that’s one way to look at it…

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