NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Turned a Deaf Ear to Palestinian Suffering
As Jodi Rudoren exits the Jerusalem bureau of The New York Times, she leaves behind a series of gaping holes in coverage of Palestine-Israel, above all in her failure to expose the treatment of the...
View ArticleA Murky Tale of Racism and Betrayal, Censored in The NY Times
Barely a week ago a gunman killed two Israelis in a Tel Aviv bar, setting off a manhunt and raising fears of more attacks. Yesterday the Palestinian suspect died in a hail of gunfire, and The New York...
View ArticleInternational Outrage at Israeli Killing Spree Gets no Notice in The NY Times
The New York Times takes us to the West Bank village of Sa’ir today, visiting the families of youthful Palestinians shot down by Israeli troops, witnessing their grief and providing a glimpse of life...
View ArticleUpdate: NY Times Hoaxers Come Forward
The authors of yesterday’s spoof edition of The New York Times have pulled back the veil and revealed their identities: the New York chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews Say No!, organizations...
View ArticleThe Occupation Goes Missing from The NY Times
The occupation went missing from The New York Times this past week. Palestinians were there, as victims and attackers, but the brutal military regime that controls their lives made no appearance. The...
View ArticleThe NY Times Maps Jerusalem: Distilling the Worst of Israeli Propaganda
In a new multimedia production The New York Times is now offering us “The Roots of the Recent Violence Between Israelis and Palestinians,” a series of 13 images accompanied by brief notes. The title...
View ArticleSix Palestinians Die, Silence in The NY Times—One Israeli Dies, We Get Headlines
Six Palestinians died over this past weekend, three of them minors, all of them relatively young. They died in separate incidents that took place throughout the West Bank, from Jenin in the north to...
View ArticleThe NY Times, Netanyahu’s Stenographer
The New York Times serves as Benjamin Netanyahu’s stenographer in a story this week that reports his latest rant against critics of Israeli policy, repeating his claims at length but making no attempt...
View ArticleWhat Is Israel Trying to Hide?
A delegation of seven lawmakers from the European Parliament arrived in Israel last month to visit Gaza, but one day before they were due to enter the enclave, Israeli authorities refused to give them...
View ArticlePew Study Exposes Israel Racism: The NY Times Buries It
When the Pew Research Center found that 48 percent of Israeli Jews would like to expel or transfer Palestinians from their land, the press took notice. Although this finding was one result among many...
View ArticleHow The NY Times Trashes Palestinian Society
Once again, The New York Times has provided us with a Palestinian “slice of life,” a look at that society from within, and once again the portrait is unflattering. In recent articles the newspaper has...
View ArticleAnother Israeli Execution in Cold Blood, Another Whitewash in The NY Times
An Israeli soldier is caught on video murdering a helpless, wounded Palestinian as he lies on the street; the graphic scene makes headlines in Europe, the United States and beyond—with a notable...
View ArticleThe NY Times Joins Israel in Whitewashing (Yet Another) Scandal
A military scandal has rocked Israel, and The New York Times has been on hand to report developments: A soldier was arrested for killing a wounded and helpless Palestinian; the soldier was under...
View ArticleThe NY Times on Gaza: Israel Is Just Trying to Help
Now, at last, The New York Times has turned its sights on Gaza fishermen, a much beleaguered group, which has persevered under constant harassment and crippling restrictions. It has long been well...
View ArticleIsrael On a Rampage of Destruction In the West Bank
Israeli bulldozers are tearing up Palestinian structures at a rapid pace this year, destroying more than 500 houses and other buildings and displacing more than 650 men, women and children in three...
View ArticlePalestinians Are Dying, But Only Israelis are “Vulnerable” in The NY Times
Isabel Kershner in The New York Times reports that Israelis are suffering from “a sense of vulnerability” after a bus bombing in Jerusalem this week. The event, she reports, sowed fear and anxiety in a...
View ArticleApologists for Israel, Touted in The NY Times
The New York Times this week touts Israeli-Canadian writer Matti Friedman‘s book, a war memoir and military analysis based partly on the author’s experience in southern Lebanon in 1998. The reviewer,...
View ArticleHow The NY Times Whitewashes the Scandal of Israel’s Child Prisoners
Dima al Wawi, 12, was released from an Israeli prison last week, and according to The New York Times, her experience there was not all that bad. She played shuffle ball and went to classes, and when...
View ArticleGaza Despair, Israeli Culpability, Unfit to Print in The NY Times
Gaza made the front page of The New York Times recently, with an article highlighting the fears of residents who suspect Hamas of building tunnels under and near their homes. The topic was ready-made...
View ArticleThe NY Times Plays the Israeli Army’s Game: Hyping Threats, Shielding Criminals
The New York Times reports today that Israel faces “monumental security challenges” and is now caught in a debate over just how tough the military should be with those who threaten to harm its soldiers...
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