{"id":89662,"date":"2021-09-28T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=89662"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:59:46","slug":"07-05-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=89662","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Publishes Yom Kippur Correction on Jewish Sovereignty in Land of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New York Times Publishes Yom Kippur Correction on Jewish Sovereignty in Land of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ira Stoll<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The headquarters of The New York Times. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> issued a Yom Kippur correction<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for an article that had falsely stated that previous periods of Jewish sovereignty in Israel had lasted for no more than \u201cabout 70 or 80 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> historical error was the subject of an Algemeiner<\/em> column<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, \u201cNew York Times \u2018Mangles\u2019 Jewish History as Gordis Sees \u2018Incurable\u2019 Pathology at the Newspaper.\u201d That article reported that the Times<\/em> had initially refused a correction request from the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy falsely reporting that the longest Jewish rule in Israel fell in less than 100 years, The Times<\/em> minimizes the historic Jewish connection to ancient Israel, eroding the legitimacy of the present Jewish state,\u201d the director of CAMERA\u2019s Israel office, Tamar Sternthal, wrote at the time. The article \u201cmangles the historical record,\u201d she had said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> correction \u2014 published in print on Thursday, September 16, the Day of Atonement \u2014 reads, \u201cAn article<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Sunday about the film \u2018Legend of Destruction\u2019 referred imprecisely to the time periods when Jews enjoyed sovereignty in the land in ancient times. While the first period of unified sovereignty some 3,000 years ago is believed to have lasted for less than a century, separate kingdoms remained sovereign for hundreds of years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The original, erroneous article had stated, \u201cIsraeli leaders have increasingly drawn on the lessons from Jewish history, noting that the Jews enjoyed two previous periods of sovereignty in the land in ancient times, but both lasted only about 70 or 80 years \u2014 a poignant reminder for the modern state that, founded in 1948, has passed the 70-year mark.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> and its defenders points to the fact that it publishes corrections as proof of its commitment to accuracy, while critics says that the corrections often come only grudgingly and that the frequency of the need for them is a sign of flaws in the Times\u2019<\/em> systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, the correction is welcome, but it\u2019s less than fully satisfactory. Note the passive \u201cis believed\u201d\u2014the Times<\/em> doesn\u2019t say who is doing the believing. And note the defensive restatement\u2014\u201cunified sovereignty\u201d\u2014 as if attempting somehow retroactively to find some way to define or restrict terms so that earlier article can be portrayed not as outright wrong but as merely \u201cimprecise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ira Stoll was managing editor of the Forward and North American editor of the Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature, can be found <\/em>here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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New York Times Publishes Yom Kippur Correction on Jewish Sovereignty in Land of Israel Ira Stoll The headquarters of The New York Times. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The New York Times issued a Yom Kippur correction for an article that had falsely stated that previous periods of Jewish sovereignty in Israel had lasted for no more than \u201cabout 70 or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89689,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89662\/revisions\/89689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}