The Guardian newspaper is never wrong. Ever. Moreover, it is most assuredly always brimming with moral rectitude whenever it discusses Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians.
Glory be! It must 100% accurate in all this, as its long-serving Middle East editor is a very nice - and extremely talented - Jewish boy from Yorkshire with whom I was casually acquainted in our teens.
So what happened this week? How did The Guardian and all its magnificent works go so horribly wonky to the extent that it actually admitted in cold print that it was, er, not absolutely right?
The idea of the Jewish State 'harvesting' the organs of dead people - no matter their origin - is worthy of the worst Medieval anti-Jewish blood libels. So what happened?
I'll let this august organ (of the Press!) explain for itself. The style is convoluted and verbose - perhaps well past its threshing date - but let's have a go:
| The Guardian
| "Corrections and Clarifications • We should not have put the headline "Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs" on a story about an admission, by the former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv, that during the 1990s specialists at the institute harvested organs from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers without getting permission from the families of the deceased (21 December, page 15). That headline did not match the article, which made clear that the organs were not taken only from Palestinians. This was a serious editing error and the headline has been changed online to reflect the text of the story written by the reporter." |
Well, that's a relief. Should any Guardian staff, God forbid, ever need a cornea transplant, they may now visit Abu Kabir with impunity; without a backward glance; without looking over either shoulder ...
msniw
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