AIPAC

AIPAC, Press Get Punk'd By Fake Call For Settlement Freeze

Justin Elliott | March 22, 2010, 9:36AM

A scene from the 2010 AIPAC conference

The top spokesman for AIPAC says someone created a hoax version of his email address and blasted out a statement calling on Israel to stop building new settlements, which was picked up by NPR, Politico's Laura Rozen reports.

Similarly, ABC's Jake Tapper tweeted the bogus news this morning (see image below) before deleting the item and tweeting "Whoa--- that was a hoax. AIPAC is NOT calling for a settlement freeze- someone staged a very elaborate fake email/press release. V odd."

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