Wild NY Times Claim: ‘Political Violence Is Relatively Rare in Britain’

Former CNN journalist Peter Hamby spotted the New York Times making a whopper of a claim on Wednesday in their coverage of the suspected terror attack in London.

You sure about that? https://t.co/w3AJJ5RLx9 pic.twitter.com/9EAozkPIG3

— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) March 22, 2017

Correspondents Katrin Bennhold and Stephen Castle wrote the Times article that Hamby excerpted in his tweet.

There was a much more recent attack on a member of the British Parliament than the 1979 incident cited by Bennhold and Castle. MP Jo Cox was stabbed and shot to death in June 2016 by a white supremacist.

The two Times reporters also neglected the decades-long campaign by the Provisional IRA against the British government. The nationalist terrorist group conducted major terrorist attacks in Britain in 1982, 1984 (where they tried to assassinate Margaret Thatcher), and 1989. The organization also conducted bombings in the 1990s until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

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