MSNBC acknowledged that maps it broadcast on Friday purporting to show the dispossession of the Palestinians by Israel, were “factually wrong,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Sunday.

MSNBC has admitted that highly controversial graphics aired on the network that depicted Israel as stealing land from the Palestinians were “factually wrong” and that the broadcast would be corrected on Monday, according to a network spokesperson.

The cable news network has been fighting off criticism after it aired the graphics and analysis, including a map linked to conspiracy groups branded as anti-Semitic, that portrayed Israel as existing on territory expropriated from Palestine. …

“In an attempt to shed light on the geographic context of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, we aired a map that was factually wrong,” the spokesperson said on Sunday.

Correspondent Martin Fletcher acknowledged on Saturday that he “should have corrected the first map, which I didn’t see until I was on air. No excuses,” in a comment on Facebook in response to a critic who had pointed out the historical inaccuracy of the series of maps.

The Mendacious Maps of Palestinian “Loss,” an in-depth analysis of the misleading nature of those maps, was published in the January 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine.

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