Most people have ceased to be surprised by the content published by the self-hating Jews at the leftist Haaretz newspaper but one of its articles in its English-speaking edition during Operation Shield and Arrow was particularly shocking.

An opinion article by Yossi Klein published on Thursday was entitled: Killing Children Brings Israelis Together. In the article, Klein claims that the killing of Gazan children in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip is a deliberate act by the Israeli government and the IDF. Why? He claims that the purpose is to frighten the Palestinians, bring happiness to Israelis and provide a sense of unity to the country in the wake of the divisive judicial reform protests.

The article was slammed in a Ynet opinion article by Alon Goldstein, the VP of content at Yediot Achronot, who wrote that apart from the vileness of the article’s lies, the English Haaretz website fails to publish a single word of criticism against Gazan terror groups for launching rockets at innocent Israel civilians, including children.

“I have no interest in trying to analyze what’s going on in Klein’s mind; all I can do is pity him,” Goldstein wrote. “However, I do not pity his editors, the individuals who direct Haaretz’s English edition. Time and time again, they go out of their way to tarnish the image of Israel and Israelis worldwide. The platform this website provides for statements like Klein’s is exceptionally extreme, far more extreme than the Hebrew-language platform of the Haaretz group.”

“I am not certain why they do this. Is it due to an anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, or even antisemitic ideology? I suspect, however, that the motive is cynically vile, no less – a desire to establish themselves as the most far-left rag, with the goal of ensnaring the most ardent haters of Israel, simply to get them to click, share, and like in order to generate traffic, dollars, and stroke the egos of those in charge.

“I know what the reasons are not to publish such repulsive articles: conscience, empathy and concern for fellow human beings,” Goldstein wrote. “How do I know? Because I haven’t seen a single critical word on the [Haaretz] website against Islamic Jihad (or Hamas and Hezbollah for that matter) for their indiscriminate rocket fire at Israeli civilians, including children. I haven’t seen a single word of criticism for the killing of Palestinian children by Islamic Jihad itself in their failed rocket launches from residential neighborhoods.
It’s in Haaretz’s right to act this way, to curry favor with antisemites, boycotters, and haters. It is their right to try sawing off the branch we all sit on. Whatever the editors’ motivation may be, contrary to the image they are trying to portray to the world, Israel is a free country.”

Goldstein then continued by trying to dissuade English speakers from frequenting Haaretz by referring them to three other English-speaking Israeli-based websites, his own Ynet, Times of Israel, and The Jerusalem Post. All three websites are left-leaning but haven’t descended to the depravity reserved by Haaretz.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)