After ‘shaming’ by
Israel, Time corrects story that depicted terrorist as victim
Magazine was publicly slammed by Israeli government for
portraying Bahaa Allyan, who killed 3 Israelis, as a ‘graphic designer’ shot by
Israel
Police and emergency medical services treat the victims
of a terror attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem on Oct. 13,
2015. (Israel Police)
By Times of Israel staff March 20, 2016, 8:00 am 24
Time magazine on Saturday corrected an article
that had been criticized by Israel’s Government Press Office for its depiction
of a Palestinian terrorist who killed three people in October as a victim of
Israeli security forces, making no mention of the people he had killed. The
magazine had resisted complaints from the Israeli government for months. It
amended the story, albeit under the same headline, but did not include an
apology, after the Government Press Office publicly castigated it on
Thursday.
The story reported on the October 13 terror attack in
Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, when two Palestinian men boarded an Egged
bus and began shooting and stabbing passengers.
On its website on Saturday, the
magazine’s editors added a passage clarifying that the subject of
the story, 22-year-old Baha Allyan, had been shot after carrying out the deadly
attack. The updated story also added that three people had been killed as a
result of Allyan’s actions.
Time’s editors also added a statement at the end of the
story, explaining that it had been updated “to give a fuller account of the
attack.”
Haim Haviv, 78, was killed Tuesday October 13, 2015 in a
terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. His wife
Shoshana was hospitalized in serious condition. (Courtesy)
In a post on its website that it also shared on Facebook,
the GPO had blasted Time editors on Thursday for refusing to amend the October
15 story and for “ignoring the victims and humanizing the attacker,” despite
repeated requests by Israeli officials for a correction or clarification on the
matter.
The terrorists killed three people:
Haviv Haim, 78, Alon Govberg, 51, and American-Israeli Richard Lakin, 76, who
was critically wounded and died some two weeks later. Over a dozen people were
injured in the attack.
Both terrorists were shot by police. Allyan was killed,
while the other, Bilal Abu Ghanem, was captured.
Jerusalem terrorist Bahaa Allyan (Bahaa Allyan Facebook
page)
The first version of the October 15 Time story, titled
“The Desperation Driving Young Palestinians to Violence,” simply referred to
Allyan as “a graphic designer” who “was killed by Israeli security forces after
allegedly trying to carry out an attack in Jerusalem.” It gave no further
details about his actions and made no mention of his victims.
Screen capture of Time Magazine’s article about Baha
Allyan, which came under fire from Israel’s Government Press Office. (screen
capture: Time Magazine)
“To our sorrow, repeated requests to Time Magazine,
initially by an Israeli NGO and subsequently by the GPO, have all failed to
induce Time to correct the serious factual error in the 15 October article,”
the GPO said.
Government Press Office
on Thursday
Five months after a Jerusalem bus attack in which three
civilians were murdered, TIME Magazine still won't change its story ignoring
the victims and humanizing the attacker. Repeated requests have been ignored.
TIME won’t clarify that “Palestinian graphic designer
killed by Israel” was terrorist who murdered 3.
An Israeli group contacted Time Magazine correspondent
Rebecca Collard, who wrote the story, on October 18 and received no response.
The Government Press Office contacted Collard on February 25, presented the
facts and demanded a correction. Neither recognition nor correction of the
erroneous article resulted. When contacted again, Time magazine correspondent
Collard wrote to the GPO on March 4: “I’ve forwarded your concerns to my
editors.”
Victims of the shooting expressed their anger over the
misleading text to the Ynet news website.
Richard Lakin (left), who was killed in a terror attack
in Jerusalem in October 2015, reads a book to his granddaughter as his son
Micah Avni looks on. January 2014. (Courtesy)
Maya Rachimi, who was injured in the attack, said of
Aylan’s depiction as a graphic designer: “I had no idea that leaving me with
two scars on my body and a punctured lung — after stabbing me with a
20-centimeter-long knife — was professional artwork, not terrorism.”
The deceased Lakin’s son Micah Avni said he was not
surprised by the magazine’s conduct and accused it of anti-Israeli bias. “Those
who cannot call terrorism terrorism, and condemn the murder of Israelis as well
as American citizens, are part of the problem, and are inciting to terrorism by
staying silent,” he said.
GPO director Nitzan Chen said the office had resorted to
publicly shaming Time as it had lost patience for “completely distorted media
reports… We decided we would not longer be silent.”
He said he expected an apology from the magazine. “That
is the minimum that can be asked for the families who lost their loved ones in
this murderous attack,” he said.
Time’s correction did not include an apology.
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is Robert Soros’s father, and a member
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the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was an
editor at Time magazine.
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to Robert Soros.
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and is the COO & director at Facebook.
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Institution (think tank).
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was a founding director for the Saban
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assistant.
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and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Strobe Talbott is
the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the
Bretton Woods Committee, and was an
editor at Time magazine.
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and is the COO & director at Facebook.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
George R. Salem
was a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, and represented the George W. Bush administration at
Yasser Arafat’s funeral.
Yasser Arafat was
the president of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, and George
R. Salem represented the George W. Bush administration at his funeral.
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