New York Times Iran Coverage: ‘Mind-Boggling,’ ‘Impossible To Parody’, by Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)
Jan. 8, 2020 President Trump’s decision to kill Qassem Soleimani is offering The New York Times an opportunity to put all its worst habits on display — and the newspaper’s many critics are having a field day pointing out the problems in the paper’s coverage. Israel’s former ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, took issue with an op-ed piece the Times published. […]
Read More →How Silwan Became an Arab Neighborhood, by Luke Moon (Providence via Mosaic)
July 17, 2019 A recent article in the New York Times complained of a “right-wing Jewish settler group” that “has moved hundreds of Jews” into the predominantly Arab eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. But, notes Luke Moon, the article says nothing about the area’s history: Silwan’s first inhabitants were Yemenite Jews who in 1881 spent six months traveling […]
Read More →Treating Israel as a Friend Who Doesn’t Need to Be Ordered Around – Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS via Daily Alert)
Jun.25, 2019 Treating Israel as a Friend Who Doesn’t Need to Be Ordered Around – Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) When the New York Times gave the Democratic presidential candidates a chance to answer 18 policy questions, the only one that touched on the Middle East was: “Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights?” That question […]
Read More →In the 1948 War, the Arabs Expelled Jews Wherever They Won – Peter Buchsbaum (TOI via Daily Alert)
Jan. 23, 2019mid In the 1948 War, the Arabs Expelled Jews Wherever They Won – Peter Buchsbaum New York Times columnist Michelle Alexander claimed on Sunday that it is a duty to protest against Israel just as Martin Luther King protested against the Vietnam War. Yet in her zeal, she shows a great deal of ignorance about the […]
Read More →Ten New York Times Journalists Accuse Israel of ‘Possibly a War Crime’, by Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)
Dec. 30, 2018 The New York Times devoted a lot of resources to its investigative project about the death of a 20-year-old Gaza medic named Rouzan al-Najjar. The article runs at the top of the front page of the Sunday newspaper and then consumes an additional three full broadsheet pages inside. It carries the front-page bylines of five Times reporters (at […]
Read More →Let Abbas’ Vile Words Be His Last as Palestinian Leader (NYT via Daily Alert)
May 3, 2018 Let Abbas’ Vile Words Be His Last as Palestinian Leader – Editorial Feeding reprehensible anti-Semitic myths and conspiracy theories in a speech on Monday, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, shed all credibility as a trustworthy partner if the Palestinians and Israelis ever try negotiations. “The Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe was […]
Read More →Article by Israeli Prompted ‘Big Argument’ Inside New York Times, Editor Says, by Ira Stoll (Alegemeiner)
Feb. 28, 2018 A New York Times op-ed piece by a spokesman for the Jewish community of Hebron was published over the objections of some Times staffers who thought it qualified as “hate speech” for “denying personhood to the Palestinians.” Click here for full article
Read More →The NY Times “Explains” Jerusalem – and its Mistakes Explain Much, by Alex Safian (CAMERA)
Dec. 9, 2017 After US President Donald Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the New York Times decided to explain to its readers just what the Jerusalem issue is all about. Unfortunately The Jerusalem Issue, Explained by Max Fisher exposed once again the Times’ own bias and ignorance when it comes to Israel. Fisher gets it wrong right from the start: Both […]
Read More →Four Ways The New York Times Botches Coverage of Jerusalem, by Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)
Dec. 6, 2017 The run-up to President Trump’s speech about Jerusalem provided the New York Times with an opportunity to put some of its worst journalism on display. Here are some of the problems: Click here for full article
Read More →Ultra-Liberal New York Times Obsesses About Israel’s ‘Ultra-Orthodox’, by Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)
Nov. 28, 2017 One of the clearest warning signs of bias in the press is a double standard — a similar story that’s treated one way if it involves Jews or Israel, and a different way if it involves a different religion or a different country. One such case is on display in the New York […]
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