Kills 3, Wounds 17 - A "graphic designer ... killed by Israeli security forces" at Time Magazine

..."There's no limit to incitement. I didn't know that leaving me with two scars on my body and a hole in my lung after he stabbed me with a 20 centimeter [8 inch] knife is a professional art and not an act of terrorism."

Israel Hayom Staff..
18 March '16..

Israel's Government Press Office went public with a complaint against Time Magazine Thursday, five months after the magazine published an article referring to a terrorist as a "graphic designer ... killed by Israeli security forces," with no mention of the people he murdered and injured.

Terrorist Baha Aliyan was shot by Israeli security forces after he and another Palestinian, Balal Abu-Janem, boarded the Route 78 bus in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem and launched a joint shooting and stabbing attack that killed three men -- Alon Govberg, 51, Haim Haviv, 78, and Richard Lakin, 76 -- and wounded 17 others.

On Oct. 15, Time's Rebecca Collard wrote: "On Tuesday, Allyan [sic], a graphic designer from the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood Jabel Mukaber, was killed by Israeli security forces after allegedly trying to carry out an attack in Jerusalem."

In an article published on its website Thursday, the GPO wrote: "To our sorrow, repeated requests to Time Magazine, initially by an Israeli NGO and subsequently by the GPO, have all failed to induce Time to correct the serious factual error in the Oct. 15 article.


"An Israeli NGO first approached Time Magazine correspondent Rebecca Collard on Oct. 18 and received no response. The Government Press Office contacted Collard on Feb. 25, presented the facts and demanded a correction. Neither recognition nor correction of the erroneous article resulted.

"When contacted again, Time Magazine correspondent Collard wrote to the GPO on March 4: 'I've forwarded your concerns to my editors.'

Another reminder and a letter to the Time International editor did not help and the article still -- five months after the attack -- presents the murderer of three civilians as a seemingly innocent Palestinian graphic designer who was inexplicably killed by Israel."

Quoted by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Maya Rahimi, who was wounded in the Armon Hanatziv attack, said, "There's no limit to incitement. I didn't know that leaving me with two scars on my body and a hole in my lung after he stabbed me with a 20 centimeter [8 inch] knife is a professional art and not an act of terrorism."

Link: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=32515

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