In the course of updating the story, the information that some marchers had chanted “Death to Arabs” had been removed from the text of the article.  The ECU accepted that its removal had resulted in an account of events which was less than duly accurate.  However, the subsequent restoration of the information and the addition of an explanatory update to the article seemed to the ECU to resolve this aspect of the complaint.

In the course of the embedded video, the report observed of the marchers that “The mood of them is jubilant, festive.  It feels like a party... they’re celebrating their presence at this spot”.  In the complaint’s view, this gave a less than impartial impression of what was in fact a violent display of Jewish supremacism.  In the ECU’s view, readers in general would have taken the words in question to be a description of the marchers’ mood rather than an endorsement of their behaviour, particularly in a context where it was apparent that they were celebrating their presence in an area which would normally have a strong Palestinian presence had the area not been cleared by Israeli police, and where the text of the article spoke of “highly provocative” actions taking place in Muslim areas of the city, at a time of “particularly high tensions”.  This aspect of the complaint was not upheld.
Resolved/not upheld