"Times Coverage of Israel Is Full of Holes" Read Los Angeles Times article written by Rabbi Abraham Cooper
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging the Los Angeles Times to correct for the 
record a Los Angeles Times news brief on the DVD release of the classic "Ben Hur" film that inexplicably describes the title character(played by Charlton Heston) as a “Palestinian”.
The 1959 classic, directed by William Wyler was based on Lew Wallace's epic historic novel that relates the struggle of the Jews against the yoke of the occupying Roman Empire. “As anyone who hasseen the movie or read the book knows, this is the story of a Jew, Judah Ben Hur,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Los Angeles-based Wiesenthal Center. “The land he fought forwas known as Judea. There was no Palestine, nor Palestinians back then. The term “Palestina” was the name imposed by Rome after they crushed the Jewish revolt more than 100 years after the deathof Jesus,” added Cooper.
“It’s bad enough that Mahmoud Abbas deleted any references to Jews in the Holy Land from his UN speech last week. We don’t need the LA Times joining the revisionist bandwagon,” Rabbi Cooperconcluded.
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