AP photo in 'Times' makes Jewish victim a Palestinian
By Jonathan Krashinsky

JERUSALEM (October 5) - A wrongly captioned Associated Press 
photo that ran in The New York Times, featuring what purported 
to be a club-wielding IDF soldier and a blood-drenched 
Palestinian on the Temple Mount, drew complaints from many 
American newspaper readers. 

In reality, the "Temple Mount" mentioned was a gas station 
outside the Old City, and the "Palestinian" was actually 
Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. Moreover, 
the policeman in the photo, far from attacking him, was 
in fact driving off a number of Palestinian assailants who 
were trying to beat the young student to death. 

According to an angry letter to the Times from Grossman's 
father, Aaron, Tuvia and two of his friends were pulled 
from their taxicab by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were 
severely beaten and stabbed. 

Family members asked how AP could have missed the highly 
prominent Hebrew gas station sign in the background, which 
clearly marked the location as somewhere other than the 
Temple Mount. 

The Times quickly blamed "an erroneous quotation" from AP 
as the cause of the blunder and published a correction. 
The AP offices in Jerusalem acknowledged that the blame 
was theirs, but refused to comment further on the matter.