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Don’t circulate sensational information that you can’t verify, or can’t be verified by a trusted news source.

CRIF president Richard Prasquier said his organization should never have published the report and called on Horowitz to offer an apology and explanation.

Horowitz now states falsely that he did not originate the claim that “Arabs” carried out the attack and that he has tried to calm the “maelstrom” sparked by his fabrications.

The Aubagne International Film Festival has called on Israeli filmmaker Yariv Horowitz to retract the claim, widely reported in Israeli media, that he was the victim of a vicious anti-Semitic beating by “Arab youths” that left him unconscious while he was present at the festival earlier this month.

French police have given The Electronic Intifada additional details about what allegedly happened that cast further doubt on Horowitz’s accounts.

Progressive news organization AlterNet has fallen for a story claiming that a prominent Saudi cleric issed a religious edict authorizing sex-deprived fighters in Syria to rape women there.

We reaffirm that Ofer Engel deceptively operated accounts impersonating Palestinians and insinuated himself into activist networks.

In a strange and alarming twist, an Israeli man who impersonated a Palestinian woman online, emerges in the midst of the Free Gaza controversy.

Paul Martin is a BBC-linked journalist who I exposed as a fraud last month, in a major investigative feature. Although a freelancer, Martin has been described by Newsnight as “our correspondent” at least once. The problem is that Martin has a bad habit of using false identities and making up stories, as my article showed. Since this story got out, Martin (whose real name seems to be Paul Cainer) has been trying to cover his tracks.