CNN Publishes Middle East Map Without Israel
Honest Reporting, a media watchdog group that defends Israel from bias, discovered a map of the Middle East chosen for a CNN Money story that was devoid of Israel and instead read, “Palestina.”
The Spanish or Portuguese translation of Palestine can be found on an image offered as a stock photo from Getty Images and was not created by CNN, as their report notes. Honest Reporting managing editor Simon Plosker said:
Whether it was an oversight or something more sinister, CNN’s illustration of the Middle East without Israel is completely unacceptable.
At a time when the state’s very legitimacy is being called into question by vicious anti-Israel extremists, any message that Israel does not belong in the Middle East plays into this false narrative and feeds those like the Iranian ayatollahs who wish to see Israel erased from the map.
How many times can CNN keep making these shoddy errors before the network takes remedial action to address its Israel problem? We fully expect CNN to replace this inaccurate map as quickly as possible.
And so they did, thanks to Honest Reporting bringing it to light and their subscribers’ complaints to CNN.
“While we question how the error occurred at all, nonetheless we commend CNN for taking prompt action,” an update states.
Here is a screenshot of the photo as it appeared in the original story:
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