Outrage after Jeopardy ! host rules Bethlehem not in Palestine
▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/jeopardy-episode-palestine-question-uproar-200111165110124.html
The incident took place in round one of the game broadcast on Friday, when Katie Needle was given the clue: “Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity”, under the category “Where’s that Church?”.
Needle, a retail supervisor, from Brooklyn, responded that it was in Palestine, but was told her answer was wrong.
One of the other two contestants, Jack McGuire, then buzzed in with the reply “Israel”, which host Alex Trebek accepted as correct.
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The Church of Nativity, declared a World Heritage Site, is located in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, which is internationally-recognised as part of Palestine.
