Contentions, Lagging Behind

Commentary Magazine's blog, Contentions, typically provides some of the best insight on the web, particularly into issues relating to Israel and global politics. But today, two of its bloggers were guilty of not keeping up with the news cycle.

First is Emanuele Ottolenghi. While the post is generally correct, Ottolenghi mistakenly links to an old JPost article (from Jan. 22) that reported on an article in Corriere della Serra, an Italian paper. The piece in the Italian paper claimed that no more than 500-600 Palestinians died in the 22-day Gaza war. Yet even Israeli news sources (from Jan. 26) and the IDF refuted this claim. The commonly reported number of deaths -- 1100-1300 is standard -- is correct. As for the number of civilians who perished, that's still up in the air.

Second, David Hazony recycles very old news, in what, it appears, he thinks is a 'scoop.' In a post titled "Gotcha," Hazony reports on Mads Gilbert, the Swedish doctor who, it turns out, doesn't only support Hamas, but also didn't think 9/11 was all that terrible. The problem is that on January 6 -- nearly one month ago -- CAMERA reported on this very fact.