BND - UK rebrands East Jerusalem consulate as mission after Israel orders closure

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UK rebrands East Jerusalem consulate as mission after Israel orders closure

Oct 8, 5 AM ET to Oct 9, 6 AM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏5 · 3 · 3🐘left · center · right
1 dayon the front pages
11front pages at once, at its peak
56 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
9people retold it online

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 8, 5 AM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
Oct 8, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 8, 4 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
Oct 9, 6 AM ETretold online by 9 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 5 AM to Oct 9, 6 AM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “vital services” “Palestinians will bear the cost”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 u k

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (4 wordings): “UK says 'vital services' to continue in East Jerusalem as Israel says most consulate diplomats leaving” → “Watch: Why was the sign at the British consulate in East Jerusalem removed?”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Israel Says British Consulate in East Jerusalem Has Ceased to Function and 20 Diplomats Will Leave” → “UK Removes Signs From Jerusalem Consulate”
Reuters (3 wordings): “British diplomats to remain at renamed consulate in Jerusalem” → “British diplomats to remain at scaled-down mission in Jerusalem”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “‘Palestinians will bear the cost’: UK consulate in East Jerusalem prepares to shut its doors” → “British consulate in East Jerusalem will stay open as UK mission, says Ed Miliband”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian ‘Palestinians will bear the cost’: UK consulate in East Jerusalem prepares to shut its doors Oct 7, 11 AM ET
AP Israel says British Consulate in east Jerusalem has ceased to function and 20 diplomats will leave Oct 8, 6 AM ET
Los Angeles Times Britain’s East Jerusalem consulate is downgraded to a mission in dispute with Israel Oct 8, 6 PM ET
NBC News U.K. rebrands east Jerusalem consulate after Israel orders closure Oct 8, 4 AM ET
New York Times Israel and U.K. Cut Last-Minute Deal to Avoid Full Closure of British Consulate in East Jerusalem Oct 8, 7 AM ET
BBC UK says 'vital services' to continue in East Jerusalem as Israel says most consulate diplomats leaving Oct 8, 4 AM ET
Bloomberg UK’s Jerusalem Consulate Downgraded in Status After Israel Talks Oct 8, 4 AM ET
Reuters British diplomats to remain at renamed consulate in Jerusalem Oct 8, 4 AM ET
The Epoch Times UK, Israel Reach Deal to Preserve British Mission in Jerusalem Oct 8, 10 AM ET
IJR UK Renames East Jerusalem Consulate as Mission Oct 8, 7 AM ET
Newsmax Israel Says British Consulate in East Jerusalem Has Ceased to Function and 20 Diplomats Will Leave Oct 8, 5 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News56 min

UK consulate in East Jerusalem becomes 'UK Mission' BBC News, 23 min
Israel downgrades UK East Jerusalem consulate BBC News, 13 min
Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate BBC News, 9 min
UK consulate in east Jerusalem downgraded to mission BBC News, 6 min
UK: Some staff being withdrawn to 'ensure their safety’ BBC News, 3 min
Israel downgrades UK consulate BBC News, 49 s
UK Mission in East Jerusalem to continue in limited capacity BBC News, 37 s
UK Israel consulate BBC News, 17 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 8, 4:10 PM ET: story 5 of 6

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

The British consulate in East Jerusalem had its signage removed due to an Israeli closure order, with conflicting claims about whether the mission is closed or renamed. Oct 9: told by 9 people; told before on Oct 8
🧩 Not the act of a friend

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Israel British Consulate in East Jerusalem U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Jerusalem

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

UK rebrands East Jerusalem consulate as mission after Israel orders closure

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