Take a look at these two leads:
MUMBAI (Nov 20, 2006): Dozens of Indians who profess Jewish ancestry were headed for Israel today, the first such group to migrate after rabbinical leaders accepted them as descendants of one of the lost Biblical tribes of Israel.
The emigrants are members of the “Bnei Menashe” community in India’s remote northeastern states of Mizoram and Manipur, who trace their lineage to one of the 10 “lost tribes” of Israel exiled by an Assyrian empire 27 centuries ago.
Last year, rabbinical leaders converted them to Judaism and agreed to bring them back to Israel.
There are some 800 Menashe in Israel, most in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and 7,000 more in Mizoram and Manipur hoping for their chance to join them.
MUMBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Dozens of Indians who profess Jewish ancestry were headed for Israel on Monday, the first such group to migrate after rabbinical leaders accepted them as descendants of one of the lost Biblical tribes of Israel.
The emigrants are members of the “Bnei Menashe” community in India’s remote northeastern states of Mizoram and Manipur, who trace their lineage to one of the 10 “lost tribes” of Israel exiled by an Assyrian empire 27 centuries ago.
Last year, rabbinical leaders converted them to Judaism and agreed to bring them back to Israel.
There are some 800 Menashe in Israel, most in the West Bank, and 7,000 more in Mizoram and Manipur hoping for their chance to join them.
What’s the difference? In the first Reuters release, this sentence was included:
There are some 800 Menashe in Israel, most in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and 7,000 more in Mizoram and Manipur hoping for their chance to join them.
There are no Jews in the Gaza Strip, and have not been for over a year. But the Reuters bias runs so deep, and its reporters are so anti-Israel, that they have yet to comprehend a simple fact: There. Are. No. Jews. In. The. Gaza. Strip.
The second article ran with a correction:
(Removes reference to Gaza Strip in fourth paragraph)
But the damage, of course, was already done.
By the way, the entire article is one disparaging comment after another, disguised as journalism, disputing that the B’nei Menashe are Jews at all. Because after all, Reuters knows better than Israeli rabbis. It’s not like it’s their job to determine who’s a Jew or anything like that.
Oh, wait. Yes it is.