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Today marks six months of war in Gaza.
We’ve compiled a thread detailing half a year of The New York Times’ complicity in Israel’s genocidal assault. Share widely!
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Another day, another wholly discredited piece of New York Times atrocity propaganda!
ZAKA's Yossi Landau admits his story about executed children was untrue
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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
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Since 1984, The NYT Jerusalem Bureau Chief (beginning with Thomas Friedman) has occupied a house stolen during the 1948 Nakba.
Read Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi’s reflections as she returns to her childhood home at the invitation of a NYT reporter:
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we are closing in on the liberal brain rot singularity
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Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe means the NYT games app as well! They get an increasing amount of revenue from their little games every year.
y’all: the new york CRIMES
y’all 5 minutes later: yayyyy new Connections
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This morning, Israel assaulted Al-Shifa Hospital (again) with gunfire, quadcopters and artillery, reportedly killing and wounding dozens of Palestinian civilians.
The NYT’s reporting predictably sanitizes this Israeli war crime. 🧵
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If you’re at the encampment, come grab a copy and say hi!
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“Famine has begun,” as if hunger has descended from the sky, like a natural disaster making landfall.
Who created the famine? Who is massacring Palestinians at aid distribution sites? Who is starving Gaza? You won’t find many answers in the pages of the
@nytimes
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Upon arrival, Karmi pressed NYT Bureau Chief Steven Erlanger:
‘What I’m really asking you is if you feel comfortable being in a country which came into being like that? Which had to get rid of people like me and take their place to build its state?’
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The New York Times’ biased coverage of Israel’s genocide is statistically eye-popping.
Our data analysis team scraped information from The Times’ archives and analyzed complex patterns of syntax and word associations, producing these results:
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‘Which keeps me from returning, from getting my house back? I mean, you can see the result: You’re physically occupying a house which belonged to other people. And you feel nothing about that?’
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“Should I have expected anything else from him, a man employed by The New York Times, whose line on the Middle East was consistently pro-Israel?”
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“I pressed him further to answer my question and not to evade it, to examine the contradictions in his position.
But no matter how hard I tried, he remained evasive, sticking to his line that it wasn’t that simple, historical reality could not be ignored, and the like.”
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The NYT just admitted that “Screams without words”—its story which alleged that Hamas carried out a campaign of mass rape on Oct. 7th—is a farce.
According to Israeli officials themselves, two out of the three victims singled out in the story were not sexually assaulted.
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Erlanger responded: ‘Look, these things are difficult. They’re not black and white. You have to remember history’s important here. Some things aren’t either right or wrong.’
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Rashid Khalidi on The New York Times:
“[It is] a thoroughly unreliable and extremely noxious agent.”
“They’re apologists for genocide.”
Read more from our interview with the Palestinian historian on our website:
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During the siege of Mariupol in 2022, The NYT wrote that Russia was using an "ancient warfare tactic to try to starve" the Ukrainian city.
But since Israel invaded and tightened its 17-year siege of Gaza, weaponizing mass starvation, the paper has failed to assign blame.
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After six months of genocide, this is the best the
@nytimes
editorial board can do—a tepid call for the US to follow its own laws.
In an attempt to save face, this cynical piece scapegoats Netanyahu and portrays Biden as a weary peacemaker. Analysis in 🧵:
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Through rigorous data aggregation, we found consistent patterns of bias in topic focus, sourcing and language:
The New York Times’ biased coverage of Israel’s genocide is statistically eye-popping.
Our data analysis team scraped information from The Times’ archives and analyzed complex patterns of syntax and word associations, producing these results:
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Read the full excerpt from Ghada Karmi’s book, Return, on our website:
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The infamous “Screams without words” story, written by a former Israeli intelligence officer with no prior journalistic experience, which has been thoroughly exposed as blatant Hasbara:
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The
@nytimes
had no qualms about naming the “deep roots” of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, highlighting Russia’s “military culture of violence” and “propaganda.”
Meanwhile, The Times continues to frame the IDF’s well-documented war crimes as “tragic” “mistakes.”
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As Israel’s war becomes politically toxic,
@nytimes
has ramped up its criticism of Netanyahu—while depicting Biden as increasingly “frustrated.”
This is a cynical attempt to save face, by co-opting anti-war sentiment and erasing structural critique of US-Israeli imperialism. 🧵
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STOP THE PRESSES | FREE PALESTINE
This morning, as autonomous actionists blockaded The New York Times’ distribution center and occupied its lobby, we launched our systemic critique of the so-called paper of record, built on months of intensive research:
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This vile, endlessly equivocating article is a prime example of how the
@nytimes
weaponizes certain language, chooses its sources and selectively contextualizes their reporting in order to provide cover for Israeli crimes.
Analysis in 🧵:
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The ZAKA profile, another piece of atrocity propaganda which relied on testimony from a group which had already been debunked in Israeli media:
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And we still have prominent western pundits, like the
@nytimes
supposed voice of reason, David Brooks, writing long-form apologetics for the indescribable horror Israel has brought upon Gaza.
The Shifa hospital massacre is worse than the 1948 Nakba’s Deir Yassin & Tantoura massacres combined
Over 300 women, children & men slaughtered. Many zip-tied & executed, some flattened by tanks, burned, or hacked into pieces by missiles, skeletal remains & body parts everywhere
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so
@nytimes
are you gonna retract your bullshit atrocity propaganda? or are you just trying to distract us from your complicity in genocide by pretending like you’re firing your “reporter” over a tweet?
BREAKING: The New York Times has fired Anat Schwartz, who expressed her genocidal racist views about Palestinians, in an attempt to scapegoat her and shield Jeffrey Gettleman and her partner's nephew Adam Sella, who collaborated with her to fabricate the "mass rape" hoax
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Last night, Israel again massacred dozens of Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza City, the fifth day in a row the IDF has attacked civilians waiting for aid. The New York Times, in typical fashion, is providing cover for this Israeli war crime.🧵
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The New York Times isn’t interested in the idea that Palestinians should organize and control their own government.
Instead, it consults with IDF officers and legitimizes the idea of a prolonged occupation of Gaza.
Gross, arrogant, imperialist “journalism.” More in🧵:
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One example (of many) of The Times covering for Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war:
During the siege of Mariupol in 2022, The NYT wrote that Russia was using an "ancient warfare tactic to try to starve" the Ukrainian city.
But since Israel invaded and tightened its 17-year siege of Gaza, weaponizing mass starvation, the paper has failed to assign blame.
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… and the consistent framing of mass starvation as an unavoidable tragedy, rather than a deliberate Israeli strategy designed to induce famine in Gaza:
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Grotesquely minimizing the Israeli massacre of 400 Palestinians at Jabalia refugee camp:
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21 years ago, the US invaded Iraq. The New York Times practically led the troops into battle with its hawkish stenography of Bush’s lies. The Times will never wash the blood off its hands.
Read our analysis of The NYT’s reporting on Iraq in🧵and here:
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The New York Times has defended the crimes of US empire for decades.
60 years ago, a US-backed coup in Brazil installed a brutal military dictatorship. The NYT supported the coup and celebrated it as a victory for democracy.
Our analysis in🧵& here:
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The Times recent attempts to save face by shifting blame to Netanyahu and away from Israel itself:
As Israel’s war becomes politically toxic,
@nytimes
has ramped up its criticism of Netanyahu—while depicting Biden as increasingly “frustrated.”
This is a cynical attempt to save face, by co-opting anti-war sentiment and erasing structural critique of US-Israeli imperialism. 🧵
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The NYT influential daily newsletter blames everyone but Israel for Israeli crimes:
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In 2010, the son of The New York Times’ Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Ethan Bronner, joined the IDF.
Despite outcry and the paper’s own public editor calling for Bronner to be reassigned, The Times kept him at his post for another two years.
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@theintercept
data aggregation which uncovered massively skewed patterns of linguistic manipulation and coverage:
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One example of The Times coverage of the second Israeli assault on Al-Shifa Hospital:
This morning, Israel assaulted Al-Shifa Hospital (again) with gunfire, quadcopters and artillery, reportedly killing and wounding dozens of Palestinian civilians.
The NYT’s reporting predictably sanitizes this Israeli war crime. 🧵
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Erasing Jewish opposition to Israel’s genocide:
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The front page article which celebrated women serving in the genocidal IDF as a grand victory for feminism.
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NYT's article, "Lives Ended in Gaza" purports to profile and humanize Palestinians killed by Israel. In reality, it is cynical journalism which grotesquely qualifies genocide by writing that "many Gazans, including some of those below, cheered the fighters who attacked Israel."
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Journalists like
@HossamShabat
have testified to Israel’s horrifying assault on Al-Shifa Hospital—field executions, indiscriminate bombing, and the intentional destruction of a major hospital.
Of course, the NYT continues to obscure and qualify Israeli crimes. More in 🧵.
I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before :
Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this…
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The Times overt preference for US-Israeli colonial control of post-war Gaza:
The New York Times isn’t interested in the idea that Palestinians should organize and control their own government.
Instead, it consults with IDF officers and legitimizes the idea of a prolonged occupation of Gaza.
Gross, arrogant, imperialist “journalism.” More in🧵:
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The Times coverage of aid distribution massacres which deflected blame from the IDF while using dehumanizing, orientalist language:
Last night, Israel again massacred dozens of Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza City, the fifth day in a row the IDF has attacked civilians waiting for aid. The New York Times, in typical fashion, is providing cover for this Israeli war crime.🧵
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The truly sinister article, “Lives ended in Gaza:”
NYT's article, "Lives Ended in Gaza" purports to profile and humanize Palestinians killed by Israel. In reality, it is cynical journalism which grotesquely qualifies genocide by writing that "many Gazans, including some of those below, cheered the fighters who attacked Israel."
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Today we celebrate the legendary Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani’s birthday.
In “The Epic of the Goat and the Wolf,” published months before he was assassinated by Mossad, Kanafani describes the maddening experience of reading Western media.
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More double standards:
Presented without comment …….
just kidding, fuck the New York Times
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How is this is any different then if Iran bombed the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.? Seems unlikely The Times would go rushing to justify that, yet here they are.
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Some blatant double standards:
The
@nytimes
had no qualms about naming the “deep roots” of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, highlighting Russia’s “military culture of violence” and “propaganda.”
Meanwhile, The Times continues to frame the IDF’s well-documented war crimes as “tragic” “mistakes.”
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Some of the most egregious reporting is that which The Times does not do. It’s largely ignored Israel’s unprecedented mass murder of journalists. It’s tearfully spilled gallons of ink on Israeli hostages while barely covering Israel’s mass extralegal detention of Palestinians.
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For months, Palestinians, top UN officials and human rights groups have unequivocally argued that Israel is “using starvation as a weapon of war” and “engineering a famine.”
The New York Times continues to obscure and minimize Israel’s responsibility for the famine. More in🧵:
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This insane headline (and article), where The Times appears to blame Syria for Israel’s flagrant violation of international law:
How is this is any different then if Iran bombed the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.? Seems unlikely The Times would go rushing to justify that, yet here they are.
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The recent coverage which has re-framed the US role to cover for their complicity in Israel’s genocide:
A reader of The Times’ recent coverage might get the impression that the United States is a benevolent, rational peacemaker.
This, of course, is an absurd characterization, as the US has bankrolled and legitimized Israel’s genocide. Analysis in 🧵:
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We offer unconditional solidarity with Columbia students facing down the deputized thugs of the NYPD.
Our struggle must de-legitimize and divest from the imperial centers of knowledge production — from the Ivy League to the New York Times.
Jail support 1PP. Free Palestine!
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13 years ago, NATO militarily intervened in Libya. In the weeks before intervention, The NYT assisted in creating a pretext for intervention by propagating lies and erasing critical context. Read our history of their blood-stained coverage here, and in🧵:
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The Times has also neglected to report on Israeli leaders’ frequent declarations of genocidal intent, a tendency which is both well-documented and critical to understanding Israel’s war.
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We will continue to update this thread. You can find more examples in our style guide:
“This style guide is intended to demonstrate just a few of the ways that The Times’ newsroom pushes the ‘just war’ narrative and to provide tips for better coverage.”
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This wildly orientalist Thomas Friedman op-ed, which describes Arabs as bugs and the US as a lion.
“Sometimes I contemplate the Middle East by watching CNN. Other times, I prefer Animal Planet.”
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Don’t fall for this rhetoric — Israel is not “miscalculating,” and by portraying their aggression this way, Israel is presented as a well-intentioned but blundering state.
Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it attacked Iran — hoping to draw the west into a regional war.
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To characterize Israel's genocide as a targeted war against Hamas (as The New York Times and other western outlets have consistently done) — even as Israeli leaders continue to nakedly contradict this account — is a vile historical whitewashing.
The Israeli army's chief of staff says the goal of the operation in and around Shifa Hospital is to put pressure on Hamas during ceasefire negotiations.
The operation has included executions, destruction of surgery wards and the bombings of entire residential blocks.
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There remains a stark contrast between The New York Times swift and forceful condemnations of Russia and its unwillingness to condemn even the most extreme and obvious Israeli crimes.
Another gross but relevant example:
Presented without comment …….
just kidding, fuck the New York Times
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Today is Shireen Abu Akleh’s birthday. Shireen, an iconic Palestinian journalist, was martyred by the IDF in 2022.
Despite
@AJEnglish
and eyewitnesses stating that Shireen was murdered by the IDF,
@nytimes
cynically hid Israel’s responsibility for her death in its headline:
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The headline itself does not indicate that Israel has begun attacking the hospital — a war crime — and that they have already killed and injured many Palestinians.
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After Oct. 7, The New York Times hired two Israelis to fabricate “evidence” that Hamas had systematically deployed rape as a weapon of war.
Yet they haven’t reported on decades of reports and testimonies, like this, which detail the IDF’s horrific sexual abuse of Palestinians.
Jamila al-Hissi, a Palestinian woman who managed to leave al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza told Al Jazeera that women at the hospital have been subjected to rape, torture, and execution by Israeli forces.
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We often joke that, in attempting to demonize us, the
@nypost
end ls up being the most accurate mainstream coverage of our movement...
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This framing invisibilizes the fact that attacking a hospital is a war crime, although this is typical — The Times rarely discusses Israeli crimes in terms of international humanitarian law, reserving that condemnation for Hamas only.
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History will not be kind to these arrogant propagandists
Dean Baquet, former exec editor of the
@nytimes
, recently spoke at Boston U’s annual “Power of Narrative” conference. An audience member questioned him about the Times’s coverage of the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza. Did he have anything at all to say? WATCH:
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The
@nytimes
has consistently obscured Israel’s responsibility for its mass murder of aid workers and journalists.
The phrasing below appears ad nauseam throughout The Times’ reporting. “The war” is imbued with agency & active voice, and Israel’s crimes are rendered invisible.
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Below, from the UN, and this, from The New York Times…
There has been a lot of debate and finger-pointing about the challenges to getting aid to people in need in Gaza.
So, let’s settle this once and for all.
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The Times’ reporting also assumes, as always, that Israel is conducting a targeted military operation against Hamas. It doesn’t mention that Israel has consistently signaled its intent to collectively punish Palestinian civilians and followed through on those threats.
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In the lede, The Times writes in dry military speak, quoting Israeli officials who call the assault on a hospital a “high precision” operation in “limited areas” of the hospital.
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And yet the US media is still trying to convince us that this famine is an unavoidable tragedy, rather than the deliberate, genocidal starvation of over two million Palestinians!
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗿𝘄𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆'𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆.
In a post on X, Philippe Lazzarini said Israeli authorities informed the UN of the…
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This guy has been the leading voice on Israel in The Times (including a stint in a stolen house in Jerusalem as the Bureau Chief) for like four decades. His brain is a unique kind of mush.
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This tone implies that if Hamas is indeed using the hospital as a “command center” — which even The Times acknowledges is an unproven claim — then the murderous attack is justified, even amidst an Israeli-engineered famine and the wholesale destruction of health infrastructure.
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Yet you will rarely see wall to wall coverage or dozens of tearful op-eds about Palestinian hostages. This mass hostage-taking and systematic torture by Israel is a footnote to mainstream western media.
We never hear about it on the news but Israel had taken 8,365 hostages in the last six months
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Don’t be fooled by this cynical scapegoating. This is not “Netanyahu’s war.”
Genocide and full expulsion of the Palestinian people have always been the horizon of Zionism, regardless of who is leading Israel’s government.
Democrats have only grown further disillusioned with Netanyahu over the years – a feeling that increased exponentially over the last six months as Israel's conduct in Gaza has resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe /
@Bsamuels0
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The Intercept reported on this in detail in February, citing Israeli media sources who debunked ZAKA’s outrageous claims.
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As we wrote about attacks on hospitals in our style guide: “The Times presents the Israeli government’s position as credible and reasonable, failing to state that even if the claims were true, they do not justify the commission of war crimes.”
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Netanyahu and his right-wing hardliners are a predictable product of zionism, not a distortion of its principles.
But it is more convenient for The Times to blame Netanyahu for Israel’s politically toxic war—rather than levy a critique which might indict zionism itself.
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And as is standard for The Times, they do not mention the IDF’s long and well-documented history of lying to the press about their military operations, like, for instance, when they lied about murdering Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022.
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The contextualization provided by The Times presumes Israel’s good intent and neglects to inform the reader that the IDF is committing a war crime — despite the recent history at this exact same hospital. It’s propaganda deja vu!
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To rebut evidence of mass rape by the IDF, an Israeli General said:
“Does it make sense that this phenomenon would exist and the media would never have reported on it?”
If you pay attention to western media’s disinformation and distortions, then yes, it makes perfect sense.
BREAKING: A senior US State Department official has confirmed that the Israeli regime and military are systematically raping Palestinian women. This has shocked the genocidal Israeli regime who demanded they not say this publicly and are now trying to get her fired
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In 2004, at the behest of Bush’s admin,
@nytimes
shelved a massive story on illegal NSA spying until after Bush’s re-election.
In 2002, under pressure from Bush, they killed a story on a CIA torture prison in Thailand.
State media with a liberal veneer.
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When reporting on a US enemy, The Times names perpetrators and writes authoritatively. But in Gaza, its reporting disconnects mass suffering from Israel’s genocidal war, despite Palestinians and human rights orgs strong assertions that the Israeli state is “engineering a famine.”
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There is no alternative, peaceful Israel which does not rely on the subjugation and dehumanization of Palestinians. While Netanyahu’s fundamentalism doesn’t help, to scapegoat him and his far right movement is to distract from a structural critique of the state of Israel itself.
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It’s similarly dishonest to frame Biden and the US as benevolent peacemakers, considering the administration has consistently enabled the genocide through military aid, rhetorical backing and diplomatic strong-arming.
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These "obituaries" read more like Canary Mission blog posts. Would The Times ever write an obituary of an Israeli killed on October 7th which implied they had it coming for their support of the virulently right-wing Netanyahu government?
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As all academics of conscience should do until the demands of
@ColumbiaBDS
@ColumbiaSJP
are met!
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The headline itself frames the murder of 7 aid workers as a “tragic” mistake. This is a common technique in The Times, as it implies that Israel has fundamentally good intentions—after all, the “only democracy in the Middle East” wouldn’t target aid workers, would they?
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@nytimes
needs to retract this vile atrocity propaganda. And in the meantime, BOYCOTT, DIVEST, UNSUBSCRIBE!
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The lede of this article frames the length and brutality of the war—which, to The Times, has only recently become slightly objectionable—as a direct consequence of Netanyahu’s politics, rather than a predictable product of Israel’s racist, militarized, settler society.
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