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May 26, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4523523,00.html

The Lag B'Omer "Pogrom"

(Ynet News) Ben-Dror Yemini - A Jewish friend from the U.S. called me last week to inquire about a pogrom committed by Jews against Palestinians. A pogrom? He had irrefutable proof. Peter Beinart wrote the words "A Lag B'Omer pogrom" on his Twitter page, with a link to a report on Ha'aretz newspaper's English-language website. The report's headline read, "Settlers Torch Palestinian Orchard." Torching an orchard is a serious matter, but the Presspectiva website, which looked into the issue, found that the original report, on Ha'aretz's Hebrew-language website, said that "settlers lit a bonfire in an olive grove." Not a single tree was torched. There are such bonfires all over the country on the Lag B'Omer holiday. But with a distorted translation to English the story became about an orchard being torched. And it evolved into a pogrom, no less. Following an appeal from Presspectiva, the newspaper published a small correction.

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