However…..they still refuse to acknowledge that Jerusalem is. The Guardian has retracted its claim that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel, saying we accept that it is wrong to state that Tel Aviv – the country’s financial and diplomatic centre – is the capital.
Honest Reporting Back in May, The Guardian posted a photo of passengers on Jerusalem’s light rail observing a minute’s silence for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The caption, however, prompted a “correction” from The Guardian, which had originally (and correctly) referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital: The caption on the photograph below featuring passengers on a tram in Jerusalem observing a two-minute silence for Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, wrongly referred to the city as the Israeli capital. The Guardian style guide states: “Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel; Tel Aviv is.” (Eyewitness, 20 April, page 24).
• A correction to a picture caption said we should not have described Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. It went on to relay the advice in our style guide that the capital was Tel Aviv. In 1980 the Israeli Knesset enacted a law designating the city of Jerusalem, including East Jerusalem, as the country’s capital. In response, the UN security council issued resolution 478, censuring the “change in character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem” and calling on all member states with diplomatic missions in the city to withdraw. The UN has reaffirmed this position on several occasions, and almost every country now has its embassy in Tel Aviv. While it was therefore right to issue a correction to make clear Israel’s designation of Jerusalem as its capital is not recognised by the international community, we accept that it is wrong to state that Tel Aviv – the country’s financial and diplomatic centre – is the capital. The style guide has been amended accordingly.
Believing The Guardian to be in clear breach of the UK Press Complaints Commission clause on accuracy, HonestReporting submitted an official complaint. To our astonishment, the PCC ruled in favor of The Guardian, stating that the newspaper was entitled to refer to Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital and was not in breach of accuracy clauses.
Despite the fact that there is no recourse for appealing a PCC ruling, HonestReporting was not prepared to let this stand. Advised by UK solicitors Asserson Law Offices, we launched legal proceedings against the PCC with the threat of a judicial review of the PCC’s decision.
In response to HonestReporting’s pressure on the PCC, The Guardian backed down from its claim, issuing a correction. It also changed its style guide, which had stated that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel, to reflect the correction.
Although The Guardian has been forced to withdraw its absurd suggestion regarding the status of Tel Aviv, the wording of The Guardian’s correction has not been agreed after the newspaper unilaterally terminated its negotiations with HonestReporting. HonestReporting still awaits a new ruling from the PCC to replace the faulty decision it issued in May and agreed to reconsider in July.
HonestReporting’s CEO Joe Hyams said in response:
This correction is a significant achievement against a newspaper that has been a major contributor to the broader delegitimization of Israel in the UK and beyond.
It is shocking that it has taken the threat of legal action to reverse a decision that was not based on reality. Nonetheless, it was vital that HonestReporting took on The Guardian and the PCC as a matter of principle, particularly at a time when Jerusalem’s status as Israel’s capital is increasingly being called into question by the media.
Now that The Guardian has admitted that it was wrong, we call on the PCC to issue a new ruling categorically stating that Tel Aviv is not Israel’s capital so that it is clear to the British media that it will not be allowed to repeat this error.
wow its great to live here in Jerusalem – everyone is talking about me – they are all crazy about us here. every day we get mentioned in the media.we light up the world. jerusalem.
they fall over their tongues to avoid using the word in the pc world of bbc and obama land. the muslims spit out the word with fury and anger. every day everywhere someone is cursing or blessing jerusalem
we are here for over 3000 years – before the pc madness entered the world – and we will be here forever when all our stupid braindead enemies will be gone and forgotten
Ruth, most of the readers here love you!
Nicely said Ruth! Shalom.
I had always thought that Tel Aviv was the capital of Israel until I started to look at everything with a counter-jihad eye. They indoctrinate us in schools and call it facts. My understanding now is Ben Gurion made Jerusalem the capital on December 13, 1949. On December 27th,1949 the Knesset held it’s first session in Jerusalem. Public school curriculum should have updated this information by the 80′s and 90′s (my years in school).
TG, the Saudis are now funding the creation and publishing of virtually all American history textbooks in the classroom. Get it?
Its called “the stealth jihad” sneaky devils them people of asian ,now ,those people of middle eastern countries eh ,gotta go my pork chop is done
why? how come books aren’t printed in this country anymore?
dragon, they are, but since they get these books free from the Saudis, they use them.
Calling Tel Aviv Israel’s capitol is akin to calling New York City the capitol of the USA! After all, NYC is also the “financial center” of this county – and, guess what, it, too, USED TO BE the USA Capitol! But, guess what again? NYC is NO LONGER the USA Capitol – it’s now (get ready for this, Guardian!) WASHINGTON!! Like, DUH!!!
What’s happened? Have the NewsSpeak editors of Orwell’s 1984 taken the helm at the Guardian – or did I miss something?!?
BTW, the only reason that Tel Aviv might be CONSIDERED (only) the “diplomatic center” of Israel is because dhimmie and pisslamic countries REFUSE to recognize Jerusalem as the rightful capitol and plant their “embassies” (which, in the world of diplomacy, would actually only be CONSULATES! Helloooo!!) in Tel Aviv. Talk about “if only wishing would make it so!!”
Like Rev. King, I have a dream. I see an enlightened world, hundreds of years away, where all cultures have realized that the stories in bibles and korans, etc., were fairy tales and folks gain comfort from philosophy and science and there is peace everywhere. Most houses of prayer of the various religions have been converted into condos or office buildings but in a few place of the world we have cities which have been kept as museums to remind people of the naive days of the human race – there is the Vatican Museum in Italy and there is Jerusalem. The latter has preserved the churches and synagogues and temples and mosques and guides tell the tourists about primitive man who believed in gods and prayed in so-called houses of God and that Israel donated this city to become a museum. After the oil wells in the Arabian countries dried up and Israel found an incredible oil reservoir just east of Tel Aviv, things began to change and sanity prevailed.
Everyone should read 2nd Chronicles Chapter 6 I think God has made it very clear
that’s where He wanted the temple, in Jerusalem, and in 1949 Jerusalem was declared the Capital. So that is all I need to know.
shalom. I wish the holocaust remembrence day included all the non-Jews killed during the years as well. if itdid the number killed would be much much higher. it’s been said that nap;oeon Bonaparte was the first ant_Christ maybe yes maybe not but if the totals killed during the time of Hitler, Stalin and Mao that number is most likely closer to 40 to 50 million. it is estimed that during Stalin’s purges is around 40 million and who knows how many were killed in China by Chairman Mao> Three evil men Three Anti-Christs
Jerusalem has been the capitol of Israel for 3000 years. No-one has the right to say it isn`t, or to try to tell the Israelis that their capitol is Tel Aviv. God Bless Israel, now and always.
The country determines their capital. The capital cities are not determined by the mindless, and ignorant 57 muslim controlled hell hole countries of the useless un. It is Washington, not Chicago. It is Ottawa, not Toronto. It is London, not Oxford. It is Paris and so on. Shame on any country that thinks they can tell another country which city they will have as their capital. Shame on the guardian news rag for thinking that they can dictate any thing but ignorance of the facts. God bless Israel and it’s true and only capital, Jerusalem, now and forever.
You find very strange articles on the Guardian ….
for example this one :
Iranian team to collaborate with US company on nuclear fusion project
New Jersey company says it has permission for unique partnership to work toward the holy grail of energy sources
New Jersy-based Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc and Tehran’s Islamic Azad University will jointly design a fusion machine that “would be affordable to construct in industrializing nations”, according to a contract signed last weekend and seen by The Guardian.
The partnership comes amid tensions between the US and Iran over allegations that Iran is enriching uranium – a process that is different from fusion – to support a nuclear weapons programme.
Sceptics doubt whether US trade sanctions will permit the collaboration. But LPP claimed in a written statement that the pact qualifies as an official US department of treasury exemption “which authorizes collaborating with academics and research institutions on the … creation and enhancement of written publications.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/25/iranian-team-collaborate-us-nuclear