Nakba denial: ’NYT’ removes the word ’expulsion’ from article describing Palestinian refugees
►http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/nakba-denial-nyt-removes-the-word-expulsion-from-article-describing-pale
The NYT explains the editing of the text in the corrections section at the bottom of the webpage, citing “reader comments” as motivating the choice. The correction in full:
"We have changed a sentence in this entry in response to reader comments. The original sentence read “British troops left, thousands of Palestinian Arabs were expelled or fled and Arab armies soon invaded Israel.” We have removed “were expelled” and “soon.”