"A Conspiracy!" cried the delighted lady, clapping her hands. "Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!"
— Lewis Carroll, My Lady, Sylvie and Bruno (1889)

Israel's media regularly report "rumors" and baseless stories that are grist for the mills of the conspiracist nuts. Later, when they correct the record, the corrections get ignored.

Take the "report" that Netanyahu had received advanced reports of the attacks on the London tube trains a couple of years back. Netanyahu was in London at the time of the attacks. Haaretz carried the "report" that Netanyahu had advance warnings of the attack, and Haaretz then was quoted by every Neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic conspiracist web site on earth to prove that Israel was behind those attacks. Of course the "advanced report" turned out to be well after the bombs went off, and the "advanced report" was simply a warning to Netanyahu, and no doubt to other diplomats, to stay off the streets until the bombings and related events were sufficiently clarified and investigated. It was "advanced" only in the sense that the media had not yet been given an official report. But Haaretz' repeating the lie (later retracted) helped reinforce the Neo-Nazi claims that all the Jews who work in the WTC had advanced warning and did not show up for work on 9-11, a lie that continues to proliferate. (For example, see this on a Holocaust Denial Neo-Nazi web site, one on which conspiracist Barry Chamish is a regular columnist.)

Well, now it is the turn of the Jerusalem Post. It carries a "report", actually a fabrication by a British diplomat, claiming that the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet was involved with the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976, supposedly collaborating with the terrorists in staging a hijacking.

The "allegation" appeared in a document written by official DH Colvin at the British embassy in Paris, quoting a contact at the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association, as the crisis unfolded. One moonbat cites another moonbat who cites a third, and you have a "document".

"According to his information, the hijack was the work of the PFLP, with help from the Israeli Secret Service, the Shin Bet," he wrote.

That is how the Jerusalem Post irresponsibly repeats it and reports it as news. Of course the whole thing is nothing more than a fabrication by a moonbat British diplomat in Paris, who wrote his allegations on a piece of paper. That piece of paper is now a "document". When the Jerusalem Post reports it as "an alternative take on the hijacking," it gives it credibility. See this.

The "Shin Bet - Terror Conspiracy" is by now on every Neo-Nazi chat list on earth and is being embraced by all the usual conspiracy nuts, the people who also claim that Israel knocked down the World Trade Center Towers to make the Arabs look bad.

The irresponsibility of Israel's mainstream media reaches a new low!
The Jerusalem Post adds:
"Shimon Peres, who was defense minister at the time of the hijacking and Entebbe rescue, said over the weekend that the claims were so outrageously baseless that they did not merit comment." That hardly makes up for the Post's foolishness.