The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper published in New York City and distributed worldwide. It is generally thought to promote an extreme leftist point of view.[6][7] Former editor Jill Abramson admitted (in 2019) the paper had an "unmistakably anti-Trump" bias.[8][9] Perhaps Biden wasn't liberal and pro-war enough for the NYT; it went all-out to force him out of the reelection race.
Declining in popularity and credibility, The New York Times is the third most widely circulated newspaper in the United States behind and The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.[10] The paper is noted for its frequent inaccurate statements related to Christian and Catholic beliefs and practices.[11] In recent years the paper has been criticized for its openly racist and anti-Semitic viewpoints,[12] and it has promoted far-left historical revisionism regarding U.S. history.[13][14] It has also opposed free speech.[15]
The last Republican the New York Times endorsed for president was Dwight Eisenhower in 1956.
The paper has been derisively referred to by its critics as the New York Slimes due to its intentionally sleazy, libelous, fact-twisting and factually devoid articles and left-wing political and ideological bias in support of advancing liberal narratives.[16]
In an article about Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the fascist New York Times used the word fascist 29 times.
Conservative organizations have stated that the Times promotes the homosexual agenda because it employs homosexuals and wins praise from homosexual groups. In 2001 Richard Berke, the Times' national political correspondent, revealed that "on any given day, three-fourths of those attending the daily meeting where it is decided what will be on the front page of the Times, are likely to be 'not-so-closeted' homosexuals." [17] In 2004, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gave the New York Times an award for "Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage", specifically citing journalist Frank Rich's article attacking President Ronald Reagan's record on AIDS.[18]
In 2008, ABC journalist John Stossel claimed: "The reason the Times, and to a lesser extent the Post, are so important, and they are, is because the TV and radio - all of the media - copy it sycophantically. That's how bias at the Times becomes bias in other media."[19]
Examples of types of liberal bias utilized by the New York Times include:
As further reflection of the newspaper's liberal bias, it has been awarded the most Pulitzer Prizes of any newspaper.[20] Leaked internal conversations have revealed many NYT staffers as what one conservative journalist called "parodies of hypersensitive liberal journalists."[21]
The NYT publishes 18 other newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune (based in Paris) and The Boston Globe. The parent company has suffered repeated financial crises in recent years.
In 2017, the NYT abolished its public editor position.[22][23]
On April 5, 2022 the Times reported "it was unable to independently verify the assertions of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and other officials" regarding the alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha by Russian forces.[24]
Flashback to WW2
In November 1942, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger publicly declared that Zionist efforts and the calls for a Jewish army created enmity among Moslems and added to the difficulties of the Allies: "it serves no useful purpose to continue, at this time, a campaign which not only embarrasses the United Nations, but can be distorted by the Axis in the Arab world." [25]
Anti-Israel falsehoods
In Oct 2022, the NYT promoted tbe Apartheid slur against Israel in film review by "Palestinian" filmmaker Jumana Manna [26]
One of the worse in blaming-the-victim in the 2023 Sabbath Jerusalem Synagogue Massacre was infamous anti-Israel bigot Patrick Kingsley in his NYT garbage piece,[27] including his nonsense as if racist-Arab Islamic-bigots care what government is in Israel, conservative or liberal.
In Feb 2023, Israel's UN envoy accuses New York Times of 'overt anti-Israel bias', especially with growing anti Semitic attacks. He called asymmetry in The Times' coverage of Israel "libelous narratives" and demanded that reporting in the paper that serves the largest urban Jewish community in the world be rectified.[28]
In July 2023, NYTimes' guest was a bigoted Arab "Palestinian" born in Jordan - Tareq Baconi, justifying, cheering the murdering of Israeli civilians. Using that Israelopohbia - false "Resistance," term too. He bursts out with another song of praise for Palestinian violence. Lacking the ability to condemn Israel for killing Palestinian civilians, Tarek Bakoni is forced to attack her for trying to stop the murder of Israeli civilians.[29][30]
Al Ahli hospital reporting - scandal
Oct 17, 2023, (10+ days following the fascistic "Palestinian" --Hamas / Palestinian Islamic Jihad etc.-- atrocities Oct/7/2023: massacres, beheading of babies, gunning down youths, mass rape while laughing, dismembering bodies, beheading babies, abducting women and children, the elderly, the disabled, parading them towards cheers of thousands of other racist Arabs in Gaza, leadimg to the anti-Terror Swords of Iron), 'Palestinian Islamic Jihad' failed rocket hitting Gaza hospital al-Ahli,[31][32][33][34] causing several casualties. Naturally guilty Palestinian Hamas terrorist regime, immediately blamed Israel for their "accident," (inflated the numbers too), which triggered protests among the Arab world. The failed jihadists' missile was one of approximately 450 that land within the Gaza Strip. In fact, "radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at the Gaza hospital occurred," Also, was publicized, an audio recording between Hamas operatives immediately after the rocket fall/fail about the terrorists' strike.[35][36] In addition, Gaza-regime Hamas, often working with Islamic jihadists at rocket launchers had warned, one minute before the hospital explosion on an upcoming missile to reach Haifa, which didn't reach that city at the end, and missiles launched do trigger second explosions.[37] Evidence, video of Palestinian failed rocket launch at the time, was published. Footage, analysis and audio intercepted Hamas conversations - immediately after, all supported IDF that it was Palestinians killing[38][39][40] their own people.[41][42] And not a rare case. "US analysis showed Israel not responsible for hospital explosion."[43][44] "Hamas immediately understood that this was the Islamic Jihad’s rocket, and launched a massive lie campaign, blaming Israel... In addition to the aerial footage, there is a recording of Hamas terrorists discussing the hit, describing the shrapnel at the site as "local" and "not Israeli."
For hours, immediately after the incident, without even checking, the NYTimes blindly recycled the butchers-jihadists' version.
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Former PM responds to New York Times initial headlines on Gaza hospital explosion. 'Is there a special exemption from fact-checking when it’s the Jewish State involved?' Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennet responded to the headlines in The New York Times, which defined the explosion in the Gaza hospital as an "Israeli strike." "Yesterday, at 6:59PM Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of around 10 rockets to Israel," Bennett wrote. "One of the rockets misfired (fairly common event) and hit the parking lot of the Al-Ahli Hospital, killing many innocent people." "Hamas immediately understood that this was the Islamic Jihad’s rocket, and launched a massive lie campaign, blaming Israel. The New York Times immediately adopted Hamas’ version, peddling this lie for hours." "New York Times: Shame on you. Apologize now for this slander," Bennett added. "Aren’t you supposed to check facts? Isn’t that your claim to fame? Is there a special exemption from fact-checking when it’s the Jewish State involved?" The IDF undertook serious investigations and the IDF spokesman held briefing for foreign media, proving that the missile which hit a Gaza hospital on Tuesday night was not one of Israel's. In addition to the aerial footage, there is a recording of Hamas terrorists discussing the hit, describing the shrapnel at the site as "local" and "not Israeli."[45] |
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| “ | Report: NYT Twice Changes Reckless Headline: ‘Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say’
The New York Times reportedly edited a headline twice on Tuesday about a blast that blew up a Gaza hospital, changing the title each time to reflect less blame against Israel for the tragic explosion. After the blast, multiple pieces of evidence emerged from the Israel Defense Forces and the media that suggested the blast was an errant rocket fired by Hamas, not an Israeli airstrike. As the evidence came to light, the Times altered its headline... [46] |
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Even forthright (formerly at HRW) critic of Israeli Military says IDF Not responsible for Gaza hospital explosion: 'It Wasn’t An Airstrike."[47]
Before investigating and checking, Hamas' mouthpiece Al Jazeera (al Jihadzeera) had already inflamed the Arab world by broadcasting Hamas' lie blaming victim-Iarael, and 'protests' broke out -- with much in the Arab world, embarrased by images of Hamas/PIJ Oct 7 atrocities, trying to believe or at least to say they believe the blaming Israel version. As well as increased expressions of hate.
Even Biden fumed at NY Times over coverage of Gaza hospital blast.[48]
'Times’ office accuses paper of ‘whitewashing Jew-hatred. Posters depicting Israeli hostages that Hamas terrorists are holding in the Gaza Strip near a large billboard that the watchdog group CAMERA took out near the Midtown Manhattan offices of “The New York Times,” November 2023.[49]
Sultan Alamer
The NY Times was slammed (Oct/2023) for quoting ‘experts’ Sultan Alamer, who praised ‘mass murder of Jews.’[50]
Hamas' vetbatim
The New York Times caught again passing along Hamas talking points and even language - verbatim, as if they were objective fact. In their Dec. 16, 2023 item, "Israeli forces withdraw after besieging Gaza hospital, leaving behind bodies and destruction," Raja Abdulrahim and Iyad Abuheweila wrote: "For a week the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia was surrounded and raided by Israeli occupation[sic] forces, who destroyed the southern part of the hospital, according to the health ministry." The term - vilification of Israel’s military favored by anti-Israel activists along with terror organizations including Hamas. Notably, this language is not consistent with Times‘ style and practice. It indicates a total departure of journalistic norms guiding objective reporting. Shortly after media watchdog CAMERA called out the paper for this egregious formulation and directly contacted an editor the word "occupation" disappeared...[51]
Hamas' mayor
On Dec 24, 2023, the NYT published a "guest essay" by Hamas' mayor, no less. Causing uproar. [52][53]
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Sudden urprising publishing of Oct 7 rape Jihad crimes
In harrowing detail, the NYT ("'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7")[55] reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7.
Publication uncovers new information, devastating testimony, on systemic targeting of women and girls, use of sexual assault and mutilation during savage Hamas onslaught in Israel.'
Some asked: 'Is this a ploy by -- Arabized "Palestinian" Nazi Hitler-fan (Soliman Hijjy) employer -- NYT to get credibility for its weekly Pallywood garbage (such as by Raja Abdulrahim, Iyad Ibuheweila)?'[56]
Ferocious
June 2024:
More ferocious NYT bias.
Article: 'Ferocious’ [sic] Israel, ‘Rabidly Partisan’ Adelson.' 'For a telltale indicator of New York Times bias, keep an eye on the adjectives and adverbs. Two recent front-page Times articles offer examples of this particular problem skewing the coverage. A Times article purporting to show how Israelis “feel little sympathy” for Gazans suffering includes the line, “Michael Zigdon, who operates a small food shack in Netivot’s rundown market and had employed two men from Gaza until the attack, expressed little sympathy for Gazans, who have endured a ferocious Israeli military onslaught for the past eight months.” The “ferocious” adjective gets hurled by the Times a second time in the same article, which goes on, in case any reader failed to absorb the point the first time, to say that “the death toll in Gaza has spiraled to at least 37,000 since Israel began its ferocious offensive.”
The Israeli self-defense operation gets described by the Times as “ferocious,” [“a ferocious Israeli military onslaught”] while the Hamas attack of Oct. 7 earns no such label. My Webster’s Second defines ferocious as “having or exhibiting ferocity, cruelty, savagery, etc; violently cruel.” Ferocity is defined as coming from the Latin root ferus, meaning wild, “as the ferocity of barbarians.” That qualifies as slander of Israel, opinion masquerading as New York Times news writing. If the Times news writers and editors want to accuse Israel of waging barbaric, savage...'[57]
NY Times Hires Another Anti-Israel Extremist to Cover Israel - NYT has a type
Media watchdog (July/2024):[58]
'NY Times Hires Another Anti-Israel Extremist to Cover Israel.
The New York Times has a type.
It hired a reporter who once said she can’t bring herself even to look at Israelis, and who admitted that her objectivity “got thrown out the window.” It hired another who in college was an apologist for Hamas and Hezbollah, denying that the terror organizations are terror organizations, that they are fundamentalists, and even that they have murdered Israeli civilians. It hired another not long after she expressed outrage that Israel struck a Hamas commander after the terror group fired a barrage of rockets toward Israeli civilians — and even charged that the strike amounted to “murder.” Shortly after the Oct. 7 massacre, the newspaper commissioned a journalist who had posted on social media, “How great you are, Hitler.”
So it is unfortunate, but hardly surprising, that the New York Times has hired Bora Erden to cover the Israel-Hamas conflict...
Whitewashing hate (at 'swastika palestine' protests)
Report: Scrubbed by the ‘Times.’ The New York Times routinely erases extremism from "pro-Palestinian" protests, including praise for Hitler and calls for murder. Examples include, when covering the events in: Washington, Manhattan, Brooklyn, UCLA. [59] Related: Anti-Israel protester shouts at Nova massacre memorial: 'I wish Hitler was still here.'[60]
Raja Abdulrahim
In Feb 2022, NYT hired former CAIR's linked[61] Raja Abdulrahim, who published letter denying Hamas, Hizbollah are terror orgs which murdered innocent Israeli civilians, was granted CAIR scholarship.
Example spin by Islamic propagandist Raja Abdulrahim in Apr 2022. "The Raja Abdulrahim article is not facing a confusion based on facts that are perplexing or unclear. It’s based on the blatant contradictions between the actual situation in Israel and the version that the nytimes wants its readers to believe."[62]
She's also pushing the fake "innocent" narrative on Palestinian terrorist Israel eliminates. Apr 2022,[63] Another New York Times Journalistic Malpractice Case. Again, Libeling Israel. The terrorist backgrounds of Jenin gunmen are expurgated by the Times.
The deplorable New York Times hire, reporter Raja Abdulrahim showed her unreliability again, and bigotry to try to limk Palestinian Arab accident on unrelated Israel, inserting also fake news regarding Judea Samaria:[64]
There has been a great deal of surprise and confusion in the American press over the results of the recent Israeli elections. Pundits and self-styled “experts,” as well as liberal American Jews, seem to be having trouble grasping why Israeli voters turned so decisively towards parties on the political right. Well, one need no look further than the Nov. 19 edition of The New York Times for the answer. From the headline on page 10, one would not think the article had anything to do with Israel. "Blaze in Gaza Strip Kills 21 Gathered for Family Party," it announced. Correspondent Raja Abdulrahim began by describing, matter-of-factly, the circumstances surrounding a fire that tragically engulfed the entire top floor of a building in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Jabaliya. Then Abdulrahim suddenly pivoted and pointed an accusing finger at Israel. She cited claims by Hamas that Israel prevents Gaza from importing adequate firefighting equipment. “Israel’s civil administration… controls the civilian aspects of Israel’s presence in the occupied territories, including Gaza and the West Bank,” she wrote. Clearly the point of that sentence was to establish that Israel must bear some of the blame for the fire because Israel “controls” Gaza, at least to some extent. Except that it doesn’t. The Israeli civil administration, to which Abdulrahim referred, was established after Israel captured Judea, Samaria and Gaza in a defensive war in 1967. When Israel withdrew from most of Gaza in 1994 as part of the Oslo Accords, the civil administration there was restricted to the narrow sliver where Israeli communities were located. Then, in 2005, Israel expelled the Jewish residents and tore down those communities. The civil administration’s presence in Gaza ended. Yes, the civil administration still operates in the parts of Judea and Samaria that Israel rules, but not in Gaza. Now look again at the way Abdulrahim constructed her sentence: “Israel’s civil administration… controls the civilian aspects of Israel’s presence in the occupied territories, including Gaza and the West Bank.”
By blurring “Gaza and the West Bank” together, as if they are a single unit, Abdulrahim created the false impression that the Israeli civil administration still has some control in Gaza, since it operates in part of “the West Bank.”
As expected, she oroved to be a radical mouthpiece for "Palestinians."[65]
In white washing the horrific 2023 Sabbath Jerusalem Synagogue Massacre: 'Insane,' 'Reprehensible,' ‘Complicit’: New York Times Excuse-Making for Jerusalem Terrorists was condemned. It typified what it means when it's being said that the media is complicit in the crimes.[66] Shame on the NYtimes for "trying to minimize and excuse a terrorist attack that left 8 Jewish civilians dead, at their synagogue, on Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day." concealing “the terror affiliations of at least seven of the nine Palestinians, introducing the false impression that the Palestinian dead are, like the Israelis murdered in Jerusalem, innocent victims." By it Times had achieved a “reprehensible result: minimizing and obscuring Palestinian terrorism." Critic contrasted a Times of Israel headline, "Armed Palestinian shot dead by guard near West Bank settlement, IDF says," and a New York Times headline about the same event, which said, "Palestinian Man Fatally Shot as Violence Continues in Israel."
Raja Abdulrahim in printed New York Times takes pains to describe the terrorist attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue as “a synagogue in a Jewish settlement[sic] in East Jerusalem.” The Times article says, “The recent Palestinian attacks, including Friday night’s shooting outside a synagogue and Saturday’s shooting, have targeted Israeli settlements and settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The settlements are considered illegal under international law and by much of the international community.”
That is cow manure, which is to say, both inaccurate and a morally loathsome effort to justify an attack on innocent civilian worshipers.
As HonestReporting noted, “On the contrary, Neve Yaakov is not a ‘settlement’ outside Jerusalem but is rather one of the neighborhoods that make up the Jerusalem municipality. While it is true that Israel gained control over that area following the Six-Day War, Neve Yaakov does not have the legal status of a ‘settlement’ and is a fully integrated municipal neighborhood. It should also be noted that Neve Yaakov sits on land that was purchased by the Jewish community in the early 20th century and served as a Jewish agricultural center until it was depopulated during the Israeli War of Independence.”
Around operation Shield and arrow against "Palestinian" Islamic Jihad PIJ terrorists, NYT's "Palestinian" Islamic reporter purposely misreported facts:[67]
Abdulrahim’s explanation of the goal of Islamic Jihad was purposely vague. She left out the fact that it is an Islamist party that believes that the entire country—Israel and the territories—should be governed solely by Islamic law. Even more important, she wrote that it was created in the 1980s “to fight the Israeli occupation.” To most Times readers and consumers of other corporate media outlets, that sounds like the organization wants to end Israel’s “occupation” of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), as well as Jerusalem. But for Palestinian Arabs, the phrase means something different. When members of PIJ, or for that matter, those affiliated with its Hamas rivals or even the so-called “moderates” of Fatah—whose leaders corruptly run the Palestinian Authority— speak of “occupation,” they are not referring to those territories that Israel gained during the 1967 Six-Day War, and which the international community and the media wrongly describe as “Palestinian” rather than disputed. As far as PIJ is concerned, every inch of Israel is “occupied.” It regards the creation of the Jewish state 75 years ago as a nakba—a “catastrophe” or “disaster”—as well as a crime that must be expunged by violent struggle.
Raja Abdulrahim, again, weeks later, demonized Israel with another skewed piece but not blaming the vicious Jihadists choosing residential areas, nor praising humamitarian Israeli effort to minimize Arab casualties.[68]
"Raja Abdulrahim continues in her tradition of using her platform as a New York Times reporter to shade the facts away from the reality." In her Jul 2023 propaganda piece, instead of pointing to the culprit leadership and an overall cult(ure) which glorifies Shaidism "martyrs". She white washes the whole phenomenon. [69]
Refusing the T word on Palestinian-terrorist rammning attack in civilians
In Feb 2023, the NYT refused to call Ramot ramming attack Palestinian terrorist ramming attack (Jerusalem February 2023), Terrorism.[71]
Hiba Yazbek
In April 2022, the radically biased NYT hired another vile Islamic anti-Israel propagandist, Hiba Yazbek. As if hiring Raja Abdulrahim wasn't estructive enough. In 2021 for example Yazbek protested "emotionally" Israel eliminating a murderer terrorist.[72]
Watchdog:[73]
A Pattern of Hiring to Ensure a Pattern of Bias
That the newspaper would hire such a partisan is telling. For context, Yazbek is hardly the first person with a history of anti-Israel comments to be employed by the Times. A decade before joining the newspaper in 2015, Diaa Hadid had worked for the anti-Israel NGO Ittijah, had written that she even “can’t look at Israelis any more,” and insisted the Jewish-state was a country “founded on hate.” Her “objectivity got thrown out the window,” she had admitted. (Hadid has since left the Times.) Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, while a student at the University of Florida, Raja Abdulrahim wrote to her campus paper to protest a description of Hamas and Hezbollah as “terror organizations” that have “murdered innocent Israeli civilians. A few years later, she was given a thousands of dollars by the anti-Israel (and anti-synagogue) organization CAIR to “encourage” journalism that is congruous with CAIR’s ideology. Recently, Abdulrahim was hired by the New York Times.
But in Yazbek’s case, the evidence of a skewed perspective about the conflict is particularly recent relative to her hiring.
Nov 2024: Google News shows a typical evolving "report" from Gaza about casualties. First, it's Gaza 'officials,' though that it's Hamas wasn't mentioned. Then it's "medics," also ignoring the fact thst Hamas controls the 'health' system, then someone came up with the drama: "rescuers." Finally, Anti-Israel Arab "journalist" at NYT - Hiba Yazbek using the screaming term "emergency services." [74]
Fady Hanona
In Aug 2022, the NYT reportedly cut Gaza stringer loose for urging murder of Israelis, Hanona: "The Jews are sons [sic] of the dogs… I am in favor of killing them and burning them like Hitler did. I will be so happy." (His post in Aug 2014. Typically, the NYT is concerned about this kind of behavior only when they get caught.).[75][76][77]
Soliman Hijjy
After firing Soliman Hijjy in 2022, following exposed his Hitler praising 2012 and 2018 posts, in Oct 2023, the NYT rehired this racist Arab Palestine to cover at Swords of Iron.[78]
Bilal Shbair: Bias in Reporting
Bilal Shbair is a Gaza-based journalist and English teacher at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in central Gaza. Since late 2023, he has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times (NYT) and previously appeared on National Public Radio (NPR) as a Gaza resident providing "man on the street" perspectives. His reporting, often from Hamas-controlled areas like Rafah and Deir al-Balah, focuses on humanitarian crises, civilian suffering, and Israeli military actions in Gaza. Pro-Israel critics, including former Israeli diplomats and media watchdogs, allege that Shbair's work exhibits a significant anti-Israel bias, rooted in his UNRWA affiliation and the constraints of operating under Hamas control, which they claim distorts facts to align with Hamas narratives. These critics view his coverage as part of a broader pattern of biased journalism that emphasizes Palestinian hardship while downplaying Hamas's role in the conflict and Israel's security imperatives.
Background and Professional Profile
- UNRWA Affiliation: Shbair, aged 34 as of 2021, works as an English teacher at an UNRWA school, an agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees and their descendants from Israel's 1948 War of Independence. Pro-Israel observers highlight UNRWA's controversial ties to Hamas, with evidence post-October 7, 2023, showing at least 12 UNRWA staff participated in the Hamas-led attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages. This led to funding suspensions by multiple countries. Critics, such as former Israeli diplomat Lenny Ben-David, argue that Shbair's UNRWA background represents a conflict of interest, potentially skewing his reporting toward anti-Israel tropes, and that The New York Times should disclose this affiliation to readers.[79][80]
- Media Presence: Before his NYT byline, Shbair contributed to NPR, discussing the mental health impact of Israeli strikes without addressing Hamas rocket fire.[81][82] Since March 2024, he has co-authored numerous NYT articles on child malnutrition, aid shortages, hospital collapses, and alleged Israeli abuses, such as using Palestinians as human shields.[83][84] On X (as @BilalAbuYazan), he maintains a low-profile account with 442 followers, primarily sharing NYT links without overt political advocacy.
Bias
Analyses contend that Shbair's reporting systematically omits context that could exonerate Israel or implicate Hamas, effectively serving as "Hamas-approved" propaganda under the guise of journalism. Below are key examples of alleged bias drawn from critical coverage:
| Article/Incident | Shbair's Framing | Pro-Israel Critique | Source | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 'Starving Gaza Children' (NYT, March 2024) | Highlights a spike in child malnutrition (15% in northern Gaza under-2s) as an Israeli-induced famine post-blockade, using UNRWA/WHO data without pre-war comparisons. | Ignores that pre-October 7 malnutrition rates (0.8%) were lower than in non-blockaded nations like Yemen (5.4%) or India
Pro-Israel analyses contend that Shbair's reporting systematically omits context that could exonerate Israel or implicate Hamas, effectively serving as "Hamas-approved" propaganda under the guise of journalism. Below are key examples of alleged bias drawn from critical coverage:
ImplicationsFrom a pro-Israel lens, Shbair's coverage reflects a broader post-October 7 shift in NYT reporting, driven by anti-Israel protests and former staffers, prioritizing appeal to a global, Israel-critical audience over balanced journalism.[79] His articles humanize Palestinian suffering—legitimate in itself—but allegedly at the expense of truth, blaming Israel for conditions exacerbated by Hamas's tactics, such as using civilians as shields or rejecting ceasefires. Pro-Israel advocates call for "warning labels" on Gaza-sourced reporting, such as "Restricted by Hamas," and for editorial disclosure of Shbair's UNRWA ties. They argue that such bias enables Hamas's strategy of weaponizing civilian suffering to evade accountability for the October 7 attack and ongoing terrorism, undermining Israel's right to defend itself against a group committed to its destruction. While no evidence confirms Shbair's direct Hamas membership, his institutional ties and operating environment raise significant questions about his impartiality in a conflict where journalism is a contested battlefield. Bucha massacre
The New York Times was in Bucha, Ukraine on April 2, 2022 and did not report a massacre. Instead, the Times confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The Times said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the Times was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. The Times suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings: 
BLM/Antifa riots Soros-trained lawyer and Islamist Urooj Rahman tosses a Molotov cocktail into a police vehicle. The Progressive terrorist was bailed out of jail by a former Obama administration intelligence official.[92]
In Jan 2023, the NYT painted glowing picture of Islamist and leftist lawyers who in May/2020 firebombed a NYPD cruiser at BLM /antifa riots.[93] Defund the Police
The movement began with an editorial by the communist mouthpiece New York Times[94] and was immediately echoed by Hillary Clinton's press spokesman.[95] Together with its revisionist 1619 Project, the New York Times has been a vociferous supporter of the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization. Gatewaypundit exposed Black Lives Matter as a money laundering scheme for the Democratic National Committee.[96] When you click on the “Donate” button on blacklivesmatter.com you are sent to “ActBlue”, the DNC official payment portal. ActBlue claims to be tax exempt organization and all donations to it are tax-deductable. The terms and conditions also link to ActBlue and mention “Campaign Finance Laws”.[97] When you research the expenditures of ActBlue, all of their contributions are directly going to top DNC campaigns.[98] After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a “Defund The Police” petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue. Joe Biden is a top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.[99] ActBlue contributions comprise 99.64 percent of all funds raised for the “Biden for President” entity and the total is nearly 773 times greater than the group with the second-highest donation sum. As of May 21, 2020, the organization has donated $119,253,857 to the “Biden for President” effort.[100] FTX scandal Speakers at the New York Times event, Bankman-Fried, Zelensky, Fink, and Yellen.[101]
The New York Times, in partnership with WEF partner Accenture,[102] was planning on to hold its DealBook Summit on November 30, 2022 featuring Sam Bankman-Fried, Ukrainian dictator Vladimir Zelensky, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, and Biden Treasury secretary Janet Yellen as the main speakers at a cost of $2,400 to attend. The event was scheduled for three weeks after the scandal erupted and became public. Others to be included in the event were Mark Zuckerberg, New York mayor Eric Adams, CNN host Van Jones, Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, TikTok CEO Shou Chew and former Indian governor Mike Pence. The event was billed as bringing "together the most consequential people at the intersection of business, policy and culture that are impacting society. The conversations this year will address the complicated, turbulent global landscape and seek to find solutions for the future of business, tech, policy and more.” Zerohedge noted: “It's not just us: with much of the entire world demanding to know how this corpulent 30-year-old still has not been thrown in prison, or at least charged with a variety of crimes, the New York Times just confirmed to the entire world what a farce the one-time paper of record has become, and how it is willing to whore itself out for clicks - not to mention prominent Democrat donors - because moments after Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted that he will be speaking with Andrew Ross-Sorkin at the moderated New York Times "summit" on Nov 30 [2022]...Sorkin quickly confirmed as much”.[103] By 2020 the New York Times still existed in print editions and on newsstands, which was convenient given the toilet paper shortage which, in part, was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. One NYT reporter, Donald G. McNeil, Jr., blamed Trump and the CDC for the Coronavirus pandemic.[104]. Trump told him, "Don't ask me, ask China that question", then he said with a loud voice, "It is NOT China's fault". They called the CDC "Chinese" even though it is American, and then Joe Biden received tremendous support from them. Aligned with DNC/CCP
After the failure of the Mueller Report, The New York Times founded The 1619 Project in August 2019 to serve the Democrat Party's's objective of falsely painting Donald Trump as a "racist" as a key issue for the 2020 presidential election. The 1619 Project claims that the United States was founded in the year 1619 A.D. on the basis of "racism".[105] Far-Left agendaIn 2004, the newspaper's ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, published a piece on the Times' liberal bias, citing the example of its coverage of same-sex "marriage".[106]  Refaat Alareer "educating" his daughter toddler: She asked: "Dad who created the J..s?"[107] In 2012 again the "public editor" of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, accused his employers of harboring progressive bias on topics like same-sex "marriage" and the Occupy movement.[108] Its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has denied the paper's extreme leftist bias, claiming instead that the paper has an "urban" viewpoint.[106] Racism and hate groups "I could not answer her question. Unfortunately." - Refaat Alareer.[107] In August 2018, the newspaper defended a racist, misandrist, anti-police and anti-Trump editor it had just hired, and it even defended her racism.[109] In a blatant display of liberal double standards, while this editor's racism was directed at white-skinned people, the NYT immediately fired another editor only a few months prior for anti-black and -gay tweets, even though that instance was not as severe as the former.[110] In January 2019, The New York Times wrote a sympathetic profile of Black Hebrew Israelites, a racist hate group, treating them significantly better than a group of Catholic students wearing MAGA hats, who it demonized.[111][112] Two 17-year-old Indian boys allegedly used racial slurs against a group of African-American girls and urinated on one during the game at Lawrence High School. By making race a "social construct", the racist actions of non-white people can still be blamed on white people. New York Times columnist Nell Irvin Painter, wrote that the Indian boys were “enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way.”[113] On May 13, 2021,[114] a "contributor" piece appeared in the NYT by a vicious racist spreading Nazi type of venom (including his boasting, his child at the age of 5/6, asked him who created the Jews, and he said he couldn't answer her[107] In order to justify his war, Refaat stated that all Israel are "soldiers."[114] Which of course includes the elderly, the children, most of ultra Orthodox haredi who choose not to serve on the IDF for religious reasons, especiallly a large percentage of Jerusalem's neighborhoods who are as much of target by Arab Islamic racist attackers. The NYT May/2021 article essentially promoting a modern-day blood libel about Israel. In Sep 25, 2020, a twitter 'Lou' tweeted: 'Rabin was a peacemaker.' Refaat (@itranslate123) replied: 'So was Hitler.') - Gaza "author" Refaat Alareer, claiming his child supposedly "asked" him something about bombing. [115] CCP propaganda
In July 2021, NYT reporter Katie Benner tweeted:
The tweet essentially called Trump supporters "enemies of the state" and a national security threat. Benner used to write for the Beijing Review, China’s only National news magazine in English, published by the Chinese Communist Party-owned China International Publishing Group. Benner joined the New York Times in 2015 after her initial work at the communist propaganda outlet.[117] The CCP-controlled Beijing Review was designated by the U.S. State Department in 2020 as a “foreign mission” of China:
Covid vaccineNew York Times editor Carlos Tejada died of a heart attack, 24 hours after receiving a Moderna Covid “booster” shot. Tejeda was 49 years old.[119] Jeffrey EpsteinIn August 2018, reporters at The New York Times and other publications received word Tesla founder Elon Musk was relying on Jeffrey Epstein to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive. Editors at the Times sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein. "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review. Stewart wrote, "He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."[120] Stewart was not the editors' first choice to interview Epstein further. Initially, they had asked Landon Thomas Jr., a veteran financial correspondent who had been at the Times for 16 years. Thomas knew Epstein fairly well — having first written about him in 2002. For a 2008 profile, Thomas had traveled to Epstein's private isle in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The article largely presented Epstein as someone who solicited prostitutes, not committed sex crimes against minors. Federal agents had by then identified several dozen possible victims. The piece ran just before Epstein submitted to authorities in Florida for incarceration. It included this passage: "As his legal troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried to explain how his life had taken such a turn," Thomas wrote. "He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of Lilliput." After Epstein's death the paper reported on a public apology by one of its corporate directors, Joichi Ito, who had landed millions of dollars from Epstein for the institute he leads, the MIT Media Lab. In a tweet, the paper's media editor, Jim Windolf, said that Ito had sought funds from Epstein "a few years after Epstein got out of the Palm Beach County Jail."[121] HaqqaniAfter eliminating Al Qaeda's Al-Zawahiri in Aug/2022, it was stressed that arch-jihadist was killed at home of Taliban lackey the New York Times gave platform to.[122]
HistoryThe New York Times was first published as New-York Daily Times in September 1851, and is often referred to as the Old Grey Lady. Fascism
Two weeks after Presiden Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in, The New York Times praised fascism, which became the model for the New Deal:
Soviet crimes against humanity
In 1931, Times correspondent and Soviet sympathizer/propagandist/collaborator Walter Duranty intentionally covered up the Soviet genocide of the Ukrainians.[124] Duranty not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but also called other journalists who reported on it "liars".[125][126] The lack of knowledge of this genocide was observed by English writer George Orwell, who commented "huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English Russophiles".[127] The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people.[128] People from all ethnic groups residing in the Ukrainian borderlands - Ukrainian, ethnic Russians, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, Taters and others - died in the Holodomor. Nazism apologeticIn 2005, Professor Laurel Leff of Northeastern University published her seminal history of The New York Times titled "Buried By The Times: The Holocaust And America's Most Important Newspaper"[130] wherein she documented the newspaper's catastrophically failed coverage of the fate of millions of European Jews barely existing under the tyrannical and despotic rule of the German Nazi regime. She goes into detail how the decisions that were made by The New York Times ultimately resulted in their minimizing what turned out to be modern history's worst genocide—and whose cause of doing so she traced to its publisher Arthur Sulzberger—who, while millions of European Jews were being slaughtered, sent a memo to all of his reporters stating: "I have been trying to instruct the people around here on the subject of the word ‘Jews’, i.e., that they are neither a race nor a people, etc."[131][132] During the atrocities, over 11,000 articles were published. But of those, merely 26 were about the Holocaust. To make matters worse, those articles that did actually get published were small, and buried deep and low in the paper below advertisements. One of the worst examples was an article titled "Warsaw Fears Extermination", which was so poorly written and spread apart that it was difficult to understand fully what the article was about.[133] Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times in 1935. Sulzberger, a liberal Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist.[134] (So was the stand of American Jewish Committee AJC at the time.[135]) The Sulzbergers: A family dynasty that has guided “The New York Times” since the 1930s has made it a standard not to portray the Jews too favorably.[136] MaoismFor a more detailed treatment, see Maoism.
By 1956, during the Three Years of Disasters, U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew commented,
In a September 2019 tweet, The New York Times praised Mao Tse-tung and reminded viewers of its past positive coverage of Mao.[140] Promoting CastroThe front page of the New York Times on April 18, 1959 read, "Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba denied today charges of Communist influence in his regime. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors he asserted: 'I have said very clearly that we are not Communists...our revolution is a humanistic one'". In an editorial later, the Times commented Castro "made it quite clear that neither he nor anyone of importance in his Government so far as he knew was Communist or in agreement with communism."  Cuban President Fulgencio Batista (left) welcoming U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (right). Batista, a signatory of the Atlantic Charter, was overtherown by Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro. On May 23, 1959, on the front page, the Times recorded the following: "Extremists have no place in the Cuban revolution, Premier Fidel Castro said in a television interview....In the same broadcast the Premier dashed hopes of United States sugar interests to save their properties from seizure under the new land reform law." An editorial in the same issue the Times declared: "It is encouraging to see Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba facing up to the Communists as he did in his television interview . . . The aims of the Cuban Reds, with their links to Moscow and their totalitarian philosophy, were bound to be contrary, in the long run, to the aims of the 26th of July movement, which fought for democracy, freedom, social justice and - rather unhappily - for an extreme nationalism." After Castro seized power, on July 16, 1959 the New York Times front page carried a story by Herbert L. Matthews:
Spinning for CarterThe New York Times attempted to spin the 1970s stagflation crisis in order to protect former President Jimmy Carter’s political image before the 1980 elections.[141] Evil Empire
Fabrications and scandals
Jihadism
Boston Marathon BombingAfter much liberal media speculation that the Boston Marathon bombing was caused by right-wingers [149] or tea-partiers,[150] it was discovered that the bombing was done by two Islamic brothers. At that point, the liberal media became very sympathetic toward the bombers, who killed two women and a child, then shot and killed a police officer. The New York Times wrote a piece excusing their actions since they grew up in a bad country (Chechnya).[151] Coverage of the TalibanLike everything else liberal, supporting America's fighting men and women is a burden for the paper. If it is a sensitive matter that would endanger the lives of our troops, they dismissively shrug the concerns off and post photos of American troops abusing prisoners in Iraq. In a liberal 'cause for concern', a New York Times reporter was kidnapped in Afghanistan by the Taliban, December 2008. The Times colluded with all the news organizations to keep it secret, not to endanger the reporter.[152]
Changing Jesus' place to support 'falstinian'Noted by watchdog, after NYT was notified of gross errors, "New York Times quietly concedes Jesus didn’t live in [so-called titled/name] "Palestine":[153]
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