The New York Times added an editor's note to an op-ed published in the paper and penned by Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.

In his note, the paper’s public editor apologized for failing to identify Barghouti as a convicted murderer of Israeli Jews and as a member of a terrorist organization after Israeli leaders and U.S. Jewish groups denounced the failure.

The original op-ed, which called on Palestinian security prisoners jailed in Israel to stage a mutiny in protest of what he described as "arbitrary arrests and ill treatment," described Barghouti only as a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.

The added note reads: "This article explained the writer's prison sentence but neglected to provide sufficient context by stating the offenses of which he was convicted. They were five counts of murder and membership in a terrorist organization. Mr. Barghouti declined to offer a defense at his trial and refused to recognize the Israeli court's jurisdiction and legitimacy."

Barghouti was sentenced to five life terms for organizing a March 2002 attack on a restaurant, in which three people were murdered. The court also found Barghouti responsible for a June 2001 attack in Maale Adumim, in which a Greek monk was murdered, a January 2002 terror attack on a gas station in Givat Zeev, and a car bomb attack in Jerusalem. In addition, he was also convicted of a charge of attempted murder, membership in a terror organization and conspiring to commit a crime.