CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, reports that two Israelis died today in a stabbing attack by Palestinians outside Jerusalem's Old City. One of the Israeli victims was mistakenly shot dead as police tried to eliminate the attackers. The other Israeli died of multiple stab wound. A third was badly injured.
Typical of the anti-Israel media: after the attackers were shot and killed by Israeli police, two prominent American media outlets skewed their headlines to frame the narrative in such a way that the Palestinians appeared to have been victimized.
An Associated Press headline about the Palestinian terror attack neglected even to mention the Israeli victims or to make it clear that Palestinians were the attackers. Instead, it conveyed to readers simply that it was Palestinians who were killed in a stabbing attack:
The New York Times website also published the AP story, and ran with the same misleading, anti-Israel headline:
CAMERA contacted both outlets to call for immediate corrections, and shortly thereafter the Associated Press did marginally (and probably grudgingly) revise its headline to read, "2 Palestinian attackers killed, 2 Israelis die in Jerusalem."
Still waiting for a correction from The New York Times.
