Ha’aretz Fabricates Tear Gas Study Findings?
Since our publication last week about the contradictions and questions in the reports about the death of Jawaher Abu Rahma, more reports and yet more discrepancies are piling up, including from the New York Times (see here), Ha’aretz (here and here), and Ynet.
While Ha’aretz‘s Gideon Levy is convinced today of the “definitive facts,” as he calls them, his colleagues Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff are less sure:
Among the soul-searching discussions taking place in the media over the circumstances of how Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah died, one element is notably missing: proven and established facts.
Indeed, an indication just how difficult it is to determine the facts in this case, including those “facts” printed in Ha’aretz, come by way of blogger Elder of Ziyon today. Elder notes that a study about CS tear gas, the kind used in Bilin, in the Archives of Toxicology journal does not say what an article in Ha’aretz Friday says it says.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Ha’aretz fabricated or manipulated the findings of a primary source to suit is editorial bent.
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