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Friday, November 27, 2020

Tomer Ilan gets results! Business Insider fixes claim that Al Qaeda never attacked Israel

Business Insider wrote an article about  Israel's assassination of an Al Qaeda official in Tehran. Originally it said:



EoZ contributor Tomer Ilan noticed the highlighted statement - it is incorrect.

He wrote to BI informing them that Al Qaeda did attack Israelis with a 2008 attack on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania and 2002 Mombasa attacks against Israeli targets. (Since then he also found a third attack, the 2009 murder of Yafim Weinstein.)

Commendably, Business Insider corrected the article:



Tomer wonders if the initial claim that AQ never attacked Israel came from some common Arab memes, like these:








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