Israeli and Jordanian officials were outraged by a Brazilian newspaper’s claim that Israel had attacked King Abdullah’s family. The item published May 21 in a gossip column in O Globo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers, claimed that Israel “decimated the Jordanian king’s family.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.