{"id":16863,"date":"2012-03-27T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2012-03-27T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:21:00","slug":"jps-responds-to-camera-ben-gurion-and-the-transfer-of-arabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16863","title":{"rendered":"JPS Responds to CAMERA: Ben-Gurion and the Transfer of Arabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JPS Responds to CAMERA<br \/>\nBen-Gurion and the Transfer of Arabs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 3 November 2011, the self-appointed media watchdog CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) informed the Journal of Palestine Studies of an incorrect citation in an article by Illan Papp\u00e9 (\u201cThe 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\u201d) published in its autumn 2006 issue. The incorrect citation referred to a quotation by Israeli founding father David Ben-Gurion supporting the expulsion (\u201ctransfer\u201d) of Arabs from Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA asked\u00a0<em>JPS\u00a0<\/em>to \u201cissue a correction stating that the quote attributed to Ben-Gurion does not appear in the references cited\u201d in\u00a0<em>JPS\u00a0<\/em>and its website \u201cto prevent further erroneous uses of this quote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA\u2019s accusations (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camera.org\/index.asp?x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=122&amp;x_article=2188\">3 February 2012<\/a>) that Papp\u00e9 \u201cinvented\u201d or \u201cfabricated\u201d the quotation, suggesting that the Zionist leader had never supported transfer, led <em>JPS<\/em> to have the original source\u2014Ben-Gurion\u2019s 5 October 1937 letter to his son\u2014translated into English.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/palestine-studies.org\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;JPS Responds to CAMERA: Ben-Gurion and the Transfer of Arabs&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPS Responds to CAMERA Ben-Gurion and the Transfer of Arabs On 3 November 2011, the self-appointed media watchdog CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) informed the Journal of Palestine Studies of an incorrect citation in an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4nZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16866,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions\/16866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}