The International Court of Justice in the Hague (Photo by Txllxt TxllxT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
In dozens of news items spanning more than three months, the Associated Press committed one of the most egregious journalistic transgressions: misattributing a false quote to a source.
Compounding the gravity of the professional misstep, the source in question is the influential International Court of Justice and the weighty content concerns accusations that Israel is conducting genocide in the Gaza Strip.
(Read the rest of Tamar Sternthal’s July 14 Op-Ed in Times of Israel.)