The U.N. is set today to formally recognize Palestine as an independent state, and it seems that the anticipatory trembles have started affecting the social media staff’s brains. The official U.N. account sent out this tweet for “Palestinian Solidarity Day”:
Hold the phone. One-state solution? Gee, wonder which one state the U.N. favors …
.@UN Freudian slip? Typo (since corrected) reveals true UN sentiment towards Israel. #un #israel #palestinians pic.twitter.com/UeVdUFlF
— Phil (@philessing) November 29, 2012
Pro-Israel Twitterer Challah Hu Akbar was all over it:
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274231676861833216
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274232374198419457
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274233244642324480
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274233656824979457
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274234087370276864
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274235550435794944
For a while, the U.N. left the original tweet where it was and merely sent out a corrected version:
On Day of Solidarity w/ Palestinians, Ban Ki-moon stresses urgency of reaching 2-state solution http://t.co/OYzs1q5I (corrected tweet)
— United Nations (@UN) November 29, 2012
https://twitter.com/ChallahHuAkbar/status/274236785901572096
As it turns out, U.N. staffer Nancy Groves was responsible for the botched tweet:
@acarvin @laurenist Sorry all — terrible typo on my part and then went into a telephone conference call before catching it.
— Nancy Groves ??? (@Nancy_Groves) November 29, 2012
@HayesBrown Wish I had caught it sooner. Thanks for the heads up!
— Nancy Groves ??? (@Nancy_Groves) November 29, 2012
But the mea culpa wasn’t about to stand in the way of well-deserved mockage:
https://twitter.com/elizabethjdias/status/274231585056894976
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/274231695652319232
HAHAHA! Oops RT @ChallahHuAkbar: Here are the two tweets in the @un timeline. Enjoy! http://t.co/o0BYKjrc
— Merav Ceren (@MeravCeren) November 29, 2012
*chuckle* RT"@KABOBfest: Sweetest typo this week. Thanks @UN"
— Fiona Zerbst ?? (@FionaZerbst) November 29, 2012
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/274238406538698755
That "1 state" tweet was possibly the biggest typo ever in Twitter history. But I feel so bad for the @UN social person. #happyhoursomewhere
— BK Chambers (@imavip) November 29, 2012
All ribbing aside, the U.N.’s social media savvy may be cloudy, but where it stands on the future of Israel is crystal clear.
https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/274246009842974720
(Hat tip: @einfal)
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