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HR Prompts West Bank Rocket Correction

Israel traveled to Scotland last week for a significant soccer match. A 3-2 loss was not the desired result. Some positive coverage did, however, find its way into the UK press, including a feature interview…

Simon Plosker
November 25, 2018
12:00 am

Reading time: < 1 minutes

While there was nothing wrong with the interview itself, we did spot the following error:

Of course the rockets were directed from Gaza and not the West Bank.

We notified The Independent of the error, which was corrected shortly after.

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Tags: distorted facts, football, Gaza, rockets, Scotland, soccer, success, The Independent, Tomer Hemed, West Bank

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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