Demonstrating a total abandonment of the journalistic imperative mandating strict adherence to factual accuracy, The New York Times is refusing to correct a blatant error: the misidentification of Rameh, an Arab town in northern Israel, as “Palestinian.

The Times yesterday declined to correct the basic geographical error, writing to CAMERA:

Rameh is both an Arab town and a Palestinian one, and either is correct.  Arab citizens of Israel increasingly identify as Palestinian, a subject we’ve written much about.

Calling it a Palestinian town refers to the character and inhabitants of the town and doesn’t imply Palestinian sovereignty or Israeli occupation. And the dateline on the article says Rameh is in Israel.

Given that the paper’s refusal to correct rests on the supposed identity of the Muslim, Christian, and Druze residents of Rameh, it’s worth unpacking the available information on that subject. (The town is one-third Druze, and Israel’s Druze population is known to identify with the state and serve in the army.)

What data does The Times have specifically on Rameh demonstrating that unlike Arabs across the rest of Israel who overwhelmingly do not identify as Palestinian, Rameh residents predominantly embrace that identity? Is the Times able to substantiate the assertion that Rameh is an anomaly among the rest of the country’s Arabs, who overwhelmingly don’t identify as Palestinian?