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January 02, 2018

Newsweek Errs on Legality of Occupation

In a Dec. 28 article ("Israeli teens refuse to serve in military, take part in occupation"), Newsweek's Jack Moore errs, stating:

The majority of the international community considers Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to be illegal under international law.

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Occupations are legal under international law and the majority of the international community has not dubbed the occupation itself illegal. Other that other leading media outlets have corrected this very error, including The New York Times (twice). A March 21, 2016 New York Times correction stated:

An article on Jan. 13 about a divestment action against Israeli banks by the United Methodist Church pension board referred incorrectly to the Palestinian territories, where, the board said, the banks help finance Israeli settlement construction. While most of the world officially considers the territories to be occupied, and the settlements illegal, there is no consensus that the occupation itself is illegal. The error was brought to the attention of editors only this week.


Previously, The New York Times had corrected on Oct. 14, 2015:



An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the Golan Heights. While most of the world officially considers it to be occupied, and the settlements there illegal, there is no consensus that the occupation itself is illegal. The same error appeared in an earlier version of a caption with the accompanying slide show.



Similarly, The Independent corrected the same point last month.

CAMERA has contacted editors. Stay tuned for an update.

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Posted by TS at January 2, 2018 04:52 AM

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Would you please cite references for your statements, "Occupations are legal under international law ..." and "... the majority of the international community has not dubbed the occupation itself illegal."

Thanks.

stat

Posted by: citizenstat at January 4, 2018 06:50 PM

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