J Street (Sort of) Explains False Claim of Civilian Casualties
In a Jerusalem Post story entitled “MK slams J Street for statement on Gaza,” a J Street spokesperson attempts to explain her organization’s false claim that Israel “killed over a dozen civilians” when in fact almost all the Gaza casualties were terrorists.
The story notes:
J Street subsequently revised the statement on their website by removing the reference to the “dozen Palestinian civilians.” By Tuesday afternoon, the organization had also added a brief apology saying, “Please note the original statement misstated the number of civilian casualties. We regret the error.”
On Tuesday night, a spokeswoman for J Street told The Jerusalem Post that the organization regrets the error and had misreported the number of civilian casualties “based on an unfounded report.”
Mistakes happen. But the spokesperson apparently did not explain what “unfounded report” J Street president Jeremy Ben Ami deemed more reliable than Israeli assessments and reports from all the major news outlets.
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