Donald Trump Jr slammed the BBC for a misleading and biased headline to a story about the horrific terror attack in Jerusalem on Friday evening.
The headline writers at the BBC chose to highlight the fact that three Palestinians were shot dead, while neglecting to note they had just murdered an Israeli Border Police Officer in a coordinated stabbing and shooting attack. The headline read: “Three Palestinians killed after deadly stabbing in Jerusalem”
President Trump’s eldest son took note, tweeting “You mean after they stabbed a female Israeli police officer to death… right? This is as close to being misleading as possible.”
You mean after they stabbed a female Israeli police officer to death… right? This is as close to being misleading as possible. https://t.co/EWZPHiRemU
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 17, 2017
Need a new term for this nonsense. Sort of the opposite of victim blaming. How about Culprit Coddling? Maybe Criminal Cozying? Thoughts??? https://t.co/EWZPHiRemU
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 17, 2017
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also noted the misleading headline and reportedly requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the BBC. Yuval Rotem, the Director General of the MFA, as well as the Israeli Embassy in London, contacted the BBC to share Israel’s disappointment at their misrepresentation of the facts.
A short time later, the BBC amended the headline, which now reads: “Israeli policewoman stabbed to death in Jerusalem”
Donald Trump Jr then returned to twitter, where he noted that the BBC had indeed changed their headline. He also accepted a congratulatory tweet from a follower, and indicated he believed the BBC’s oversight was rooted in Anti-Israel bias.
So nice of @BBC to take down their ridiculous tweet from this morn. If they didn’t flagrantly mislead they wouldn’t have to be called out. pic.twitter.com/hGvy3ZuiYb
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 18, 2017
It’s my pleasure. To me it seemed like a very slanted tweet against Israel given what actually happened. Guess I was right. https://t.co/zUcPQbfzFk
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 18, 2017
ISIS and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack at Jerusalem’s Sha’ar Shechem, which killed 23-year-old Hadas Malka HY”D and left 4 wounded.
(Nat Golden – YWN)
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5 Responses
What would Obama have done :)?
If Obama were the president’s son, he would do much the same.
Unfortunately the memory and legacy of Joseph Goebbels (yamach shmo) is alive and doing well today. It lives in BCC, NYT, WaPo, CNN, NBC …. and the most Fake news media outlets including DNC.
What’s wrong with a headline that says Palestinians were killed, if it is true? Unless one believes that the killing of Palestinians is always wrong, the headline seems pretty neutral and straightforward to me.
And isn’t one uninformed Trump enough for us?
huju i it sounds like a revenge killing.somebody was stabbed and 3 innocent palestinians were killed.they were killed to stop them from doing further damage!