Glasgow Times removes false “Palestinian state” claim

A Sept 4th article in the Glasgow Times, “Israel v Scotland: Pro-Palestine protesters take to Hampden”, included the following sentence:

 

As we pointed out to editors, and in a tweet to the journalist, there has of course never been a state of ‘Palestine’.  Though the sentence was deleted from the article shortly after our complaint, contrary to normal journalistic standards, there was no editor’s note informing readers of the correction.

See David Collier’s full report on the anti-Israel protests outside Hampden Park here.

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