NY Times Makes Reportedly False Claim About Israel’s Founder, Refuses To Offer Retraction

The New York Times, caught repeating a reportedly false claim from 1987 that Israel’s founding prime minister David Ben Gurion wanted Israel to give up land it had conquered in the 1967 Six-Day War, has refused to correct the error even though the 1987 claim was debunked three months ago.

As historian Martin Kramer pointed out on Saturday, in last Monday’s edition of the Times, the false claim occurred on page A1 in an article by Max Fisher titled, “Israel, Riding Nationalist Tide, Puts Identity First. It Isn’t Alone.”