The UK Press Complaints Commission ruled Monday that a British paper was wrong to refer to Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital, settling a dispute over the issue in the British media.
The case had been debated since April, when the London-based newspaper the Guardian apologized for naming Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and stated instead that Tel Aviv was the capital.
In Monday’s decision, the PCC concluded that “the unequivocal statement that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel had the potential to mislead readers and raised a breach of… the Editors’ Code of Practice.”
...“The ruling set a precedent on British coverage of Israel, effectively barring all British publications from referring to Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital,” Honest Reporting, the British pro-Israel media watchdog group behind the complaint to the PCC, declared in a statement released Tuesday.
Continue reading: http://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-media-watchdog-rules-its-wrong-to-call-tel-aviv-israels-capital/
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