CAMERA’s Israel staff has prompted a Ha’aretz correction regarding an article in yesterday’s English edition which wrongly asserted that an Israeli judge and prosecutors agreed with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi when he compared his appearance to that of Holocaust victims. As noted in CAMERA’s Snapshots blog yesterday, the original Hebrew article by Jack Khoury actually stated that the Israelis were shocked by the comparison — a far cry from agreeing with it.

Editors commendably corrected the online text yesterday, and published the following note at the bottom of the article.

Today on page 2 in the print edition, the following correction appears: