Last night’s Jeopardy. See the Judea column. Somebody is going to have a fit and demand a retraction. Didn’t something like this happen recently with the LA Times?
Judea for $1000:
Galilee, Samaria & Judea in the south were the 3 traditional divisions of this ancient area with a still-current name
What is Palestine!
That is funny, I can imagine AIPAC and CAMERA holding meetings over who missed this assignment.
The ship is leaking all over.
Do you think Carnegie Mellon heard from “the community” of stiflers and muzzlers?
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/01/carnegie_mellons_prize_for_big_1.html
It’s a cliché of the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic repertoire: The trusting young Jew who once believed in Israel’s righteousness, but learns the “facts,” wakes up to the reality that, actually, the nation is a criminal entity and then (heroically) speaks out. Young Jesse Lieberfeld not only produced a lurid screed on the theme, but won a prize for it sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon English department, Student Affairs, and the Office of the President.
L.A. Times apologizes for calling Ben Hur a Palestinian (September 28, 2011)
The Los Angeles Times corrected an item about an anniversary release of a “Ben Hur” DVD that called the title character a Palestinian.
The correction came following complaints from readers and the staff of CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America of a Calendar item published Monday.
“A Sept. 26 Calendar section article about a new DVD and Blu-ray release of the 1959 film ‘Ben-Hur’ described the title character, played by Charlton Heston, as a Palestinian nobleman,” the correction said. “The character Ben-Hur was a Jew from Judea who lived long before the place now known as Palestine was given that name.”
The original item had said, “Based on the novel by Lew Wallace, the period drama revolves around Judah Ben-Hur (Heston), a Palestinian nobleman who is enslaved by the Romans, engages in one of the most thrilling chariot races ever captured on screen, and even encounters Jesus Christ.”
http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood/article/la_times_apologizes_for_calling_ben_hur_a_palestinian_20110928/
CAMERA http://blog.camera.org/archives/2011/09/la_times_remakes_judah_benhur.html
ha, it was a ‘triple stumper’. if you scroll over the prize money ($1000) it gives you the results. it stumped all the contestants.
i saw that. strange, indeed, particularly given nima’s comment. by most accounts, trebek is an arrogant pr@ck, so maybe being hoodwinked by hasbara, inc. didn’t sit well. pure speculation on my part, though. it’s funny to see how travel shows treat the extended I/P issue. tony bourdain’s ‘no reservations’ filmed two episodes in lebanon, the first being interrupted by the IAF, the second with a bewildered bourdain, babbling on about the ME penchant for conspiracy theory and much head scratching over lebanese apparent distaste for israel.
Hey man, Jeopardy doesn’t screw around with academic integrity.