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The Jewish Chronicle reports the Israeli ambassador's complaint that no rabbi took part in a Remembrance service at Phaleron, and it attributes her account and the claimed apology to her. In a short closing passage on wider relations, the JC gives Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar's claim that Hamas is responsible for the suffering of Palestinians the last word, with nothing set against it, though a UN Commission of Inquiry has found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Gives a contested claim the last word
Minor
“It is Hamas that is responsible for the suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis”
Why this matters
The JC ends its account of the London and Israel dispute on Gideon Sa'ar's words "It is Hamas that is responsible for the suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis". Nothing follows them except a line saying the Foreign Office has been contacted.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away believing that the suffering in Gaza that Ed Miliband's video addressed is down to Hamas alone, and that Israel bears no responsibility for it.
The context
The JC itself chose to bring in this Gaza dispute as context, then let a party to it have the final word. A UN Commission of Inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The article never mentions this finding and gives no response from Miliband or anyone else to Sa'ar's claim.
How we know
On the recordA UN Commission of Inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.ohchr.org (opens in a new tab)
Elsewhere in the article“criticised Ed Miliband for releasing a video on the humanitarian situation in Gaza”