Giving The Guardian the benefit of the doubt: because they took time to verify its authenticity before reporting on it.

More likely reason: urgency and BREAKING NEWS gets more clicks.

Nothing in that explains why the majority of the population would have favourable views of Israel. There are several things that would appear to support the opposite actually, such as the Nigerian government arresting and deporting the Israeli film crew.

Upgrading from “died” to “killed” is so brave of The Guardian though

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One of the few big companies that seems to have some morals (Ben & Jerry’s, not Unilever).

They even sued Unilever last year because Unilever silenced them expressing support for Palestinian refugees.