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Donald Trump Jr. Takes To Twitter Over Israel Terror Attack

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By Daniel J. Solomon June 19, 2017

Donald Trump Jr. led a Twitter campaign to push the BBC to change a headline on a story about a weekend terror attack in Israel, blasting the venerable news organization for what he and other Israel advocates said was bias.

After the Friday night terror attack, which claimed the lives of an Israeli policewoman and those of the three Palestinian assailants, the BBC headlined a story: “Three Palestinians killed after deadly stabbing in Jerusalem.”

The headline was slammed by political actors in both Israel and the United States as misleading and unfair – implying that the Palestinian attackers were victims, rather than perpetrators.

The BBC later apologized, deleted a tweet in which had promoted the story and wrote a new one that was seen as more accurate.

_Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon_Thje

Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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