March 14, 2011 in Uncategorized | by Adam Levick

I’m on a tour of the Israeli Yishuv of Itamar, site of the gruesome attack on Shabbat which left five Israelis (including 3 children) dead, and our group just finished talking to the community Rabbi and his wife Leah (who is also a community spokesperson) about their thoughts on the massacre and related issues of life in the community.

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood is one of the European journalists on the tour, and she just asked Leah – at the end of the Q&A – if she was a “Messianic“ Jew, a question which, as anyone familiar with the Jesus-based movement knows, is an absurd question for a rebbetzin of a religious Jewish community.

Harriet Sherwood

I’ll post later, but am still stunned by the failure of the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent to even marginally understand what the term Messianic Judaism denotes.

Guardian's bizarre headline on story about massacre in Itamar

The Guardian also has on its headline "Israelis and Palestinians in shock after Fogel family massacre". (Firstly, credit for using the term massacre in the headline.) But "... Palestinians in shock.. "???. Not a scrap of evidence is adduced. It's Guardian wishful thinking.

http://cifwatch.com/2011/03/14/guardians-bizarre-headline-on-story-about-deadly-terrorist-attack-in-itamar/